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What Does an Emphasis on Problem Solving Look Like in Your ECS or CSP Classroom?

semester, my CSP students worked with Alice 3.0.  We spend time working on developing storyboards.  I have ...

Blog Post - Sarah J Wille - 18 Dec 2013 - 16:28 - 1 comment

Web Unit some great web based editors

Here are two great online editors that your students can use to bulid web sites. Students only need to write down the url to view and work on their page. http://jsbin.com https://thimble.webmaker.org With these two site a pixlr stude ...

Resource - wstarzyk - 7 Dec 2013 - 16:48 - 0 comments

Discussion of Data Days 4-5: Research Questions - PUBLIC

Discuss your experiences teaching this lesson plan here. This discussion in public and visible to anyone who visits the site. To join a discussion private to just ECS teachers or your own group, choose the appropriate "related content" link bel ...

Discussion - Darren Cambridge - 25 Nov 2013 - 11:45 - 3 comments

Let's Focus on Learning How to Teach With the New Technology, Not Just How to Teach the New Technology

Welcome to my first blog post - ever. The last time I regularly expressed my opinion in writing was for a fanzine about a new kind of music called “Indie Rock”. So please be gentle.   I was thinking about the CS10K project meeting last week at St ...

Blog Post - dyanek - 21 Nov 2013 - 13:41 - 1 comment

60% of Tech Jobs in 2013 Filled by Women

My esteemed colleague Jenny Roscoe found a great infographic about percentage of women in tech jobs over the past few years. I thought I'd pass it along here... http://goo.gl/8VVJwc Jeff N ...

Discussion - jsolin - 15 Nov 2013 - 11:33 - 4 comments - 2 groups

Post those posters!

Well I finally took my own advice and started hanging samples of the student posters just like we do at the PD.  It'll be interesting to see how this looks by the end of the year! Try it and post your images too!! ...

Discussion - dyanek - 7 Nov 2013 - 13:25 - 7 comments - 1 group

Simultaneous edit of Google doc for large classes

I have 60+ students in my class and struggle with a mechanism to get them to report out to the entire class.  I don't have my own classroom and can't carry supplies with me like the large post-it sheets we use in PD sessions, but I do have a pr ...

Discussion - reed - 27 Oct 2013 - 20:41 - 4 comments - 1 group

Current Events in Data Collection and Visualization

The news provides lots of opportunities to connect ECS topics to the "real world."   As we were starting the data collection lesson, a NYT article addressed the French response to revelations about the NSA collecting French citizens' p ...

Resource - heymrhayes - 27 Oct 2013 - 12:30 - 0 comments

Scratch Units from Computer Science 1A

Hello Utah ECS,   Here is a link to some of the things I use for Scratch in Computer Science 1A. It includes a nice introductory unit from another teacher, and a few fun projects with HowTo videos (Pacman, Pong, etc.) https://www.dropbox.com/sh/56ifm5do8y978t0 ...

Resource - mgrammer - 26 Oct 2013 - 17:01 - 1 comment - 1 group

Greatest Challenge with collaboration and communication?

What has been your greatest challenges in implementing the ECS practices of collaboration and communication in your classroom? Not Featured Helpful Insightful ...

Discussion - rmurphy - 26 Oct 2013 - 14:18 - 9 comments - 1 group

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