Congratulations Malinda Delpriore DHH teacher at Warwick Middle School - here is a piece of her essay. "I discovered that the Ozobot brings digital programming to the physical world. The Ozobot provides feedback to students through its movement. This is fantastic for my students who are unable to hear feedback provided by coding websites. Similar to coding websites and OSMO, my students would use the Ozobot during independent activity time to promote language development, creativity, analytical and logical thinking as well as constructive problem-solving skills." Congratulations. Can't wait to see how you use it in your classroom.

Congratulations to Faith Burchfield (Speech Therapist) and Tabatha Hedrick (PCA in AS classroom) for being the lucky winners of last months give-away. They each won a Mini Sphero to use with their student(s) that they serve at the IU13. Thanks for all the essays this month. This was our biggest month of submitted essays. Keep them coming. You only have two weeks to try to win this month's spotlight item - Ozobot! 

Juliana entered my January essay contest to share that her students love using OSMO on their iPads. She has a student that is particularly interested in Coding apps and online programs. She has seen growth in this student's problem solving abilities, as well as, focus on an academic-based task such as coding. Having access to OSMO coding, this student would be able to physically interact and change the items in order to complete the skill or level. I am pleased to provide her with a OSMO Coding Program for her class.

I am excited to share that Lyn Carvell has been selected as our December Winner for a Coding game from OSMO. Lyn is an Occupational Therapist here at the IU13. She shared that during the first week of December, she participated in the global Hour Of Code by incorporating coding tasks in her OT sessions. Since some of her students on her caseload cannot participate in Music Education she felt using OSMO Coding Jam can incorporate that Music component as well. Enjoy and Happy Coding!!

Traci Graham was the winner of our Spotlight item - OSMO. She and her students were very excited yesterday when she received her OSMO Genius Kit. Enjoy and stay tuned as next week the new Spotlight Item and Instructional Tool is featured. 

Congratulations goes out to Erica Peterson, teacher at Fairland Center. You have been chosen to win the OZOBOT. Thank you for your great essay on how you can use it with your students!