Innovation and Inspiration

Students in our district joined millions of students around the world in the Hour of Code last week. This year, we had well over 4,000 students participate! A special thank you to Blackford, Campbell Middle School, Capri, Forest Hill, Marshall Lane, and  Village for having 100% of their students participate! I started a collaborative celebration wall this year, for classes around the district to share photos:  http://padlet.com/jgoo/hourofcode Favorite coding classroom web-based resources this year were: Code.org Star Wars, Minecraft, Frozen, and Angry Birds lessons, Code.org Code Studio, Tynker, Code Monkey, and Google CS First. Favorite iPad Apps included: Blue-bot, Hopscotch, Kodable, and Scratch Jr. My personal favorite coding activities were using the robots from our STEAM Resource Libraries! Some of our TK - 2nd grade classes used the Blue-bots for literacy and math centers. One class even had used Blue-bot to write and draw with markers! Some of our 3rd - 5th grade classes

The Hour of Code and Computer Science week are here! Thank you all for your excitement and enthusiasm!  Five of our schools, Forest Hill, Village, Marshall Lane, Capri, and Campbell Middle School have committed to having 100% of their students participate this week! They will be receiving a special 100% banner to hang proudly at their school! Some schools may even have a visit from a special guest later this week! It's not too late to have your class participate! The main website is:  code.org/learn  and additional resources are available at:  https://goo.gl/NzRS5R  Many classes are also planning to have students use the Dash, Sphero, and Blue-bot robots for their Hour of Code! Please post your favorite photo of your class coding on the CUSD Hour of Code Celebration Wall:  http://padlet.com/jgoo/hourofcode  Check back regularly to show your class pictures of students around the district all coding together!