STEAM Advent Calendar
This is from @ShellTerrell's Teacher ReBoot Camp. Check it out and make your own, or use the one embedded below.
CS Education Week- Hour of Code
We celebrate Grace Hopper's birthday every year with a week of Computer Science celebrations and an Hour of Code. This year, working remotely, when 80% of the students in the elementary school are in person, we can't really collaborate and share materials the way we have in the past. I have simply passed along choice boards, with only minor changes from Shannon Miller. There is a wealth of information online atCode.org and at Hour of Code.com as well as on a myriad of other sites. Do you want to use block coding, or javascript or python? Do you want to try AI or make an app? Are you brand new at coding or an expert? There are so many choices! This is a pretty cool one from Minecraft- making 2 villages get along with one another! Novel concept.
Or you can try making old fashioned arcade games with MakeCode.
Or make a tree with codeblocks from TinkerCad...
Do you need unplugged activities? Try these from Code.org
https://code.org/files/Hour-of-Code-Unplugged-Activities.pdf
The cool thing about coding with Microbits is that there is an online simulator. That means you can work on the code and see how it works, without having a physical microbit at home. Here's an example of coding Microbits for good. There's more info and tons of ideas here. Microbits are inexpensive, work with block code, javascript and python. Check out all the things you can do with the new version too.
Ideas to Share
Julia Dweck @GiftedTawk continues to amaze me with all of her great Jamboard ideas. Can't wait til she shares the details on how she made this fairy tale jamboard or the Racing game. Check her twitter feed for more details.
Canva
If you haven't explored Canva yet, or it's been awhile... please check out all that Canva can do for education. Teachers can apply for a free Pro account. You can set up classes. Kids can collaborate on projects and ohhh so much more. Start by spending some time with Leslie Fisher, as she goes through some of the wonderful things you can do.
The Gifted Guide
I first started to check out this link for the engineering resources offered. As we try to maneuver through the COVID restrictions, finding hands-on projects to do, and stay within health guidelines is a challenge. So- this site- Gifted Guide. However, the more I explored this, the more resources I found, across the grade bands and curriculum. So, check it out, I loved the unit on Ancient Greece, although I would make it much more open-ended than a typical webquest.
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Welcome back after such a beautiful week of spring-like weather for our winter break here in Massachusetts!
This will be a compilation of things that I thought were cool/useful/interesting over the last couple of weeks. Some Shortcuts I Learned
I spent a day down at Lunenburg HS this past week at MassCue's GooglePalooza. One cool thing about this sort of conference is that, much like an edcamp, resources are usually shared online. So head over to this link, check out the 4 sessions and all of the resources that were shared. I really enjoy learning from a couple of these presenters and would highly recommend that you attend anything that Jenn Judkins or Jennifer Lowton are doing. Both are incredibly knowledgeable, funny and I always, always learn something new from them. Jenn Judkins is my go-to resource for Google Forms, and Sheets. She makes up great workflows to save everyone time (and a few trees). Jennifer Lowton is a great resource for both Google Admin type questions, as well as Special Education and tech questions.
Shortcuts:
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Chromebooks
Steve Wicks has published a new Chrome resource website. Just about anything you care to know... you can find here at Chromebook 101.
Add Videos from Google Drive to Slides
Shawn Beard, as well as many others, posted about the new ability to add videos from your Google Drive to Google Slides. This is very handy, in case YouTube is blocked and it also enables you to have student videos which can created and uploaded right to Drive and shared on Google Slides.
More Math Resources
I attended a webinar featuring a man named Steve Sherman recently. I had never heard of him, but he was talking about global education and math. Well, I wish I had included him in the last post about math! To give you an idea: here's his intro blurb:
Steve is the Chief Imagination Officer of an Educational NGO in Capetown, South Africa called Living Maths. It is a mathematics, problem-solving and science enrichment program. He teaches approximately 4500 students weekly in schools around Cape Town and now recently, the world. He is passionate about sharing knowledge and empowering young people. He is also a multi-award purchasing educator and was voted most adorable educational innovator by his unbiased mother. He feels that it is his destiny to spread the joy of problem-solving and creative thinking to anyone who is willing to listen and even to those who are not. He knows Karate, Ju-jitsu and 2 other Japanese words. Steve is an Olympic medallist for the short jump and an accomplished Yo-yo winder.
Check out his website: Livingmaths.com. He does cool stuff with math; he connects kids around the world; and he's funny.
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