Wow- I am not sure where the time went. We are through a marking period already. I am pretty far behind in my blogging as I haven’t created one in 2 months. Ok this blog is focused on a very exciting event that occurs globally, reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. Why shouldn’t students at Lancaster Lebanon IU13 be in that group as well! This movement is called THE HOUR OF CODE. What is the Hour of Code you might say, this is a time during with week of Dec 4-10, where you have your students participate in some form of computer coding. But know, you can do the Hour of Code all year round. There are so many tools you could use to do this for students of preschool to high school level. Check out this short video to get you and your students excited Watch: Hour of Code I am going to share with you several tools you can try to incorporate the Hour of Code in your classroom. Likewise, if you check out the SPOTLIGHT section over on your right, you can try to win either an OSMO Coding Aubie game or OSMO Coding Jam game. There are three opportunities to win.
Tools to use for the Hour of Code – Code.org (all grades), OSMO Coding (Elementary), OSMO Coding Jam (Elem to Middle) Codecademy (HS), codeSpark Academy or Kodable (for primary), codemonkey (Elem), and so much more. Check out this link for Hour of Code Activities and click this link for Teacher How to Guide I truly want to encourage you to do this movement in your class. Whether whole group or student individually trying to code a program. I would love to hear how it went and what you did, please post below to share out. Don’t forget the opportunity to win one of the Coding programs from OSMO. (NOTE: you need to have an iPad and OSMO base to use this program).
