Hour of Code 2015

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 coded Dash Robots and our middle school classes coded the Sphero Robots. 

I am so thankful and inspired by our teachers and students who are continually trying new things with and taking risks every day!

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