Selected Resources
http://www.themagpi.com/
This free monthly magazine is focused on the Raspberry Pi. There are many articles on SCRATCH programming and other languages too. The...
I have created a series of brief videos to help students learn HTML and CSS techniques. These videos may be helpful for anyone looking to delve deeper into web site creation:
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http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline
This website allows teahers to learn about GIS mapping and how to use...
Has anyone developed a project that students can build upon as they progress through the first 4 units of ECS that is tightly linked. Is there one Final Project available that can be built up to during the year that pulls together the 4...
See a supplies list for ECS, developed in Chicago and used for the 5-day summer PD sessions. The list can be found at:
goo.gl/sJEqFw
For your convenience, the version as of 3/24/...
Scratch 2.0 (currently in Beta as of today 1/29/2013) allows the user to have virtual objects and use their webcam to interact with them. One example of this is a virtual piano keyboard which you can play:
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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
...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'...
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.)...
Students, individually, will research and create the presentation. This is my students last grade in this marking period and I would like them to be in total control of their grade in the end of the advisory. This is the rubric for this project...
