Computing in the Modern World - July 6-10th 2009
Teachers who attended Computing in the Modern World 2009
The teacher survey is at http://findings.summer-ice.sgizmo.com
Game for practicing binary and decimal numbers http://forums.cisco.com/CertCom/game/binary_game_page.htm
There are other games for packets and internet and server at https://cisco.hosted.jivesoftware.com/community/connections/games?view=overview
Colors as hexidecimal http://www.webmonkey.com/reference/Color_Charts
Pico Cricket web site http://www.picocricket.com/
Expression Web from Microsoft http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/dd252934.aspx
Bureau of Labor Statistics - Occupational Outlook Handbook http://www.bls.gov/OCO/
website for computing careers http://www.khake.com/
Problem solving resoures are at http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/298
Create crossword puzzles at http://puzzlemaker.com http://superteachertools.com
Free java software for creating quizes, matching, crossword puzzles, cloze activity http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
CS Unplugged web site http://csunplugged.com/
Scratch website for teachers http://scratched.media.mit.edu/
Bot puzzles http://www.iknowthat.com/com/App?File=BattleBot.htm&Type=D&App=BattleBot&Topic=DogBone
Intel the Journey Inside http://educate.intel.com/en/TheJourneyInside/ExploreTheCurriculum/
The Institute for Computing Education (ICE) will hold a 5 day Computing in the Modern World workshop July 6-10th, 2009 at Georgia Tech. Georgia's new Computing in the Modern World course includes approxiamtely 7-10 weeks of computer programming (see http://www.georgiastandards.org/career.aspx?PageReq=PhaseI). The Computing in the Modern World course is based on the ACM's Model Curriculum for K-12 Education's Computer Science in the Modern World Level II course.
This workshop is for teachers with no or little experience in computer programming. It will introduce basic concepts of computer programming using Scratch, Alice, and Pico Crickets. Scratch is free software from MIT that allows kids to learn programming concepts while creating 2D animations and games (seehttp://scratch.mit.edu). Alice is free software from CMU that allows you to teach drag-and-drop programming by having students create 3D movies and games (seehttp://www.alice.org). A PicoCricket is an arts and crafts kit for the digital age (see http://www.picocricket.com/). You can use a PicoCricket to make a musical pickle, make a kinetic sculpture, and more.
Teachers who are teaching or who plan to teach any computing class can take this workshop.
This workshop will cover the basics of computer programming including problem solving, algorithms, computer hardware, variables, loops, conditionals, list processing, event handling, objects, and classes. We will also learn computing concepts by using activities from CS Unplugged (seehttp://csunplugged.org). These activities teach about binary numbers, encoding, error detection, networking and more.
The workshops will be held at the Georgia Institute for Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. You must attend all 5 days, and participate in creating lesson plans during class, in order to receive 3 PLUs. The hours are from 8:30am - 4:30pm Monday - Thursday. On Friday the hours are from 8:30am - 12:00pm. There is a $350 fee for this workshop for Georgia public school teachers (due to some support from CTAERN). Out of state teachers and private school teachers will pay $450.00. Due to a NSF grant we will be able to cover hotel, parking, and food for Georgia teachers (both public and private) who live greater than 30 miles from Georgia Tech. Teachers will be staying two teachers to a room unless s/he wishes to pay the addtional cost for a private room ($71/night). We will also cover lunch for all teachers. Preference is given to teachers who are teaching Computing in the Modern World or Beginning Programming in the Fall of 2009.
The workshop will be held at the Technology Square Research Building (TSRB) in room 118. TSRB is located at 85 Fifth Street NW Atlanta, Georgia 30308 - across the street from the GA Tech Hotel. Please see http://www.tsrb.gatech.edu/ for parking and directions.
Checks or purchase orders should be made out to the Georgia Institute of Technology. Space is limited to 40, so please send your payment as soon as possible. The payment is refundable up to 1 month before the workshop begins. Send your payment to:
Georgia Tech, CoC
Institute for Computing Education
ATTN: Felicia Auzla, ICE Programs
801 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, GA, 30332-0280
Fax: 404 385-0965
Georgia public school teachers must register on http://ctaern.org. Private school teachers and out-of-state teachers (not in Georgia) can register at
out-of-state or private registration. Please bring a laptop if you have one, or notify us if you need to borrow a laptop.
Tenative Agenda:
Monday July 6th, 2009
8:30am - 9:30am Introductions, CS Unplugged Activities (binary numbers, fax machines-image representation and compression), and State Standards
9:30am - 10:00am introduction to programming PicoCrickets - musical pickle
10:00am - 10:15am break
10:15am - 12:00pm reaction game and kinetic sculpture
12:00pm - 1:00pm lunch break
1:00pm - 3:00pm open-ended assignment with PicoCrickets
3:00pm- 4:30pm group work on creating lesson plans using the topics covered
Tuesday July 7th, 2009
8:30am - 9:30am review of group work and questions from the previous day
9:30am - 10:00am Introduction to Scratch
10:00am - 10:15am break
10:15am - 12:00pm Using scratch to create 2D animations and simple games: variables, iteration, conditionals, event processing
12:00pm - 1:00pm lunch break
1:00pm - 1:30pm Do information theory from CS unplugged
1:30pm - 3:00pm Walk through creating a more complicated 2D game in Scratch
3:00pm - 4:30pm group work on creating lesson plans for the topics covered
Wednesday July 8th, 2009
8:30am - 9:30am review of group work and questions from the previous day
9:30am - 10:00am Introduction to Alice
10:00am - 10:15am break
10:15am - 12:00pm Setting up an Alice scene
12:00pm - 1:00pm lunch break
1:00pm - 1:30pm CS unplugged networking activity
1:30pm - 3:00pm invoking methods in Alice, creating your own method in Alice, passing parameters in Alice
3:00pm - 4:30pm group work on creating lesson plans for the topics covered
Thursday July 9th, 2009
8:30am - 9:30am review of group work and questions from the previous day
9:30am - 10:00am Iteration in Alice
10:00am - 10:15am break
10:15am - 12:00pm conditionals in Alice, event handling in Alice, working with a list
12:00pm - 1:00pm lunch break
1:00pm - 1:30pm flowchart hopscotch
1:30pm - 3:00pm open ended assignments in Alice
3:00pm - 4:30pm group work on creating lesson plans for the topics covered
Friday July 10th, 2009
8:30am - 9:30am review of group work and questions from the previous day
9:30am-11:30am Resources and project ideas for the other standards for Computing in the Modern World
11:30am-12:00pm surveys
ATTENDANCE
Chantel G Oden - Attended, left early two days
Chris Mitchem - No Show
Christye D Johnson - Attended, but absent on Tuesday/sick
Corey J Carter - Attended, absent Wednesday/daughter was sick
Danielle Jones - Attended
David C Turner - No Show
David Phenix - Attended
Debra L Sutton - Attended
Ernest Jackson - Attended
Glenda Williams -No Show
Hazel J Marshall - Attended
Janet R Dover - Attended, but failed to sign in on Thurs
Jennifer L Scott - No Show
Joe Finklestein - Attended
Kay Eason - Attended
Kimberly Hatcher - No Show
Kirk Warner - Attended
Kristie Jackson Stargell - No Show
Leatrice C Latimore - Attended
Lillian Durant Adkins - No Show
Linda G Parris - Attended
Lisa Dangler - Attended
Michelle Smith - Attended
Rochelle Lawrence Jones - Attended
Rosie McCoy - No Show
Sean Bell - Attended
Seandra Hill - No Show
Sue B Wray - Attended
Tara M Whitteker - Attended
Teresa Smith - Attended
Theo Smith Jr - No Show
Tracey Nichols Wilson - Attended, but didn't sign in on Friday
Tricia Alfred McCoy - No Show
Yvonne Margaretta Rountree - No Show
(IT WORKERS)
Karuna Rhena - Attended
Laura Cai - Attended, absent Friday
Ping Zhang - Attended, absent Wednesday - Friday
Scott Mayham - Attended, absent Friday
PAYMENTS
Sean Bell - Pending
APS - Pending
Payments covered if we receive the grant:
(Teachers)
Tricia McCoy
Theo Smith
Kristie Stargell
Sue Wray
Janet Dover
(IT Workers)
Karuna Rhena
Scott Mayham
Laura Cai
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