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Microsoft TEALS program is looking to add schools

As December nears, TEALS (Technology Education and Literacy in Schools) is ready to start recruiting new school partners for the 2014-15 school year. TEALS (www.tealsk12.org) is a Microsoft YouthSpark program that helps high schools build a sustainable computer science (CS) program by integrating industry software engineers into the classroom in a co-teaching model with a classroom teacher.

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Cheap alternative to giant Post It Notes

My colleagues at Lane pointed me to a great alternative to the giant Post It Notes (which are a pricey). You can use 24"x36" newsprint which can be found on Amazon HERE. You get approximately 400 sheets shipped for $28. In comparison, the giant Post It Notes are roughly the same price for two 30-sheet pads. That's $0.07/sheet vs $0.47/sheet. They aren't as "pretty" and they don't stick on their own, but magnets, tape and thumbtacks can cover you there.

Jeff

Announcing the ECS, CSP and Code.org Partnership

Code.org is now working with us to expand the reach of ECS and CSP. Check out the article in the October issue of the SIGCSE bulletin:

http://www.cs.middlebury.edu/sigcse/bulletin.45n4.pdf

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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

Google Code-in 2013 competition for 13 - 17 year old students

Beginning Monday, November 18th, 13-17 year old pre-university students from around the world can register and start competing in Google Code-in 2013. The Google Code-in is an online contest designed to introduce pre-university students to the world of open source software development.

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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!!

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 projector.

Most teachers have a max of ~30 students per class, but if you are one of those who have 50+ (like at Lakeview HS in Chicago) then this might be helpful.

ECS / SC/ Programming experience using iPads

Hi

Many of you know I am now out of the classroom working on the CCTP/iPad rollout. One of my person goals in the progrect is to bring computer science to students in the 47 Phase 1 schools.

Last week's meeting got me very excited when I was able to access the Code Academy content on the iPad without a problem. Also last week I downloaded a 99 cent Scratch App that contains a number of identical lessons and activities that are very similar, if not identical to the web based Scratch using Flash on PC/MAC machines.