In the Avatar Creation Password game, the Brute Force attack will succeed…or it won’t!
Micrsoft Does it AGAIN!
24 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
One of the richest companies in history cannot afford a spell checker!!!???
Can you spot the mistake?
(Hint: How do you spell Microsoft?)
Art Steps
20 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in 36K, art, computer lab, graphic design Tags: Adobe Photoshop, art
The students created a final presentation of the Adobe photoshop unit by designing an online virtual reality museum and then uploading their images inside it.
They used artsteps website. It is so good!
Coding Club
20 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in code/coding, off-screen/unplugged
Science4You’s Coding Club kit is a collection of “scientific” code-breaking, puzzle-solving, and code-related activities kids do off the computer. This includes learning binary, creating cyphers, and more.
Let’s Go Code Activity Set
20 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Learning Resources Let’s Go Code Activity Set is an off-screen coding activity. The kids are the robots who have to follow commands to jump across foam floor mats.
Bee-Bot through the Tunnel
20 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in 811K, programming, robotics Tags: bee-bot
Together, we programmed the Bee-Bot robot to go through the tunnel.
Turning on a Bee-Bot Robot
20 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in 811K, robotics Tags: bee-bot
This is how to turn on a Bee-Bot robot. There are three switches on the bottom that must be switched on.
Bee-Bot in Action
20 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in 811K, code/coding, robotics Tags: bee-bot
The Bee-Bot robot is a programmable robot that has command buttons on its back. Forward, back, turn right, turn left, pause, go, etc.
Here are some images of the robot in action, as well as images of the slide dck lesson that introduced the topic.
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- bee-bot with eyes lit up
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- mats for the bee-bot
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- bee-bot commands
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- to learn about directional coding
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- bee-bot on mat
Thank you to Stephanie Nielson for letting me photograph her class.
New York Comic Con 2023
13 Oct 2023 1 Comment
in 359X, professional development Tags: comics, Lego, New York Comic Con, stop motion studio
View of the Show Floor at NYCC
I went to New York Comic Con yesterday at the Javits Center in Manhattan. It is a four-day event and Thursday was educators day.
As you might expect, there were numerous booths and stands with vendors and publishers, people mulling around in their pop-culture costumes; contests; competitions; classes; panels; movie stars and more.
I attended two panels. The first was on Jewish identity in comics outside the Holocaust, which was sponsored by JewCE (the Jewish Comics Experience) of the Center for Jewish History.
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The second panel I attended was on Kids as Content Creators: Engaging Media Savvy Students. This panel was hosted by teachers from Concourse Village Elementary School PS 359 in district 7 in the bronx. The three panelists discussed the comic books, stop motion videos, LEGO robotics, and video games their students made, and showed samples of each. (BTW – It is the same Stop Motion Studio app that we use as well)
P.S. I am now officially a New York Comic Con Educator!
Once Were Stringbeans
04 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in 79M, School Lunch Tags: green bean, stringbean
Is this a typical school lunch? What happened to the green vegetable?
Occasional Observations of Traveling Technology Coach 