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15 Aug 2014 - 19:13
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 articles are brief and most are presented to inspire and teach computer science concepts...
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8 Feb 2014 - 17:02
SHow power point. JOURNAL: Write algorithm on how to move the cat down the hall and up the stairs? DEMO: goto, move and gulide Project: Navagate the sprite down the hall and up the stairs. DEMO FILE: http://scratch.mit.edu/...
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29 Jan 2013 - 19:56
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: See bit.ly/scratch2demo for a...
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20 Nov 2013 - 21:14
See the Institute for Computing Education (ICE) distance learning website for projects for Alice 2 and 3. Also click here to see winners of our Alice competition. Middle and high school students can enter games or movies as...
Tags: Alice Attribution Creative Commons CSP Student activity Unit 4: Introduction to Programming Programming
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20 Nov 2013 - 21:14
See the Institute for Computing Education (ICE) distance learning website for projects for Alice 2 and 3. Also click here to see winners of our Alice competition. Middle and high school students can enter games or movies as...
Tags: Alice Attribution Creative Commons CSP Student activity Unit 4: Introduction to Programming Programming
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26 Oct 2013 - 17:00
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...
Tags: ECS Lecture Video LO 5.3.2 - Develop a correct program Unit 4: Introduction to Programming Programming Scratch
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19 Apr 2013 - 09:02
After teaching algorithms in BYOB, I teach as small unit on recursion with the intent to teach students the concept of recursion. I am also attaching the BJC Webinar on Recursion done on April 17. I also use the following resource on the...
Tags: CSP Curriculum Algorithms Teaching strategy Unit 2: Problem Solving BYOB/SNAP! Concept explanation Unit 4: Introduction to Programming Programming
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28 Mar 2013 - 09:06
Nick Parlante of Stanford has made the CS 101 introduction to the essential ideas of Computer Science coure available on-line as a self-study course. The course includes some programming in Javascript, but all the in browser so you don't have...
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15 Jan 2013 - 21:47
This is a one day activity I did with my ECS students. Anijo Mathew, instructor from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology faciliated the Lo-Fi prototyping activity which focuses on brainstorming, problem solving, design...
Tags: ECS Unit 2: Problem Solving Student activity Unit 4: Introduction to Programming Unit 6: Robotics
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16 Jan 2013 - 14:44
In Scratch once conditionals and messages have been introduced you can ask the students to create an interactive story that has at least 2 different endings using at least one conditional (if). You can use the ask "text" and wait block which...
