Oops, used reply to user rather than to the whole list. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andre Roberge <andre.robe...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 8:04 PM Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Joining my first SIG To: Zac Miller <zmil...@gsc.edu>
Welcome aboard Zac! On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Zac Miller <zmil...@gsc.edu> wrote: > Hello! > > I've just joined this SIG, my first, and looked over a few of the archived > threads from last few months. My name is Zac Miller and I am currently > teaching Python programming to college and middle school level students. > > I am curious if there are many K12 educators involved in this SIG? I am > looking for people to discuss my student's progress with and it seems to be > hard to find others using Python in this setting. > I know that there are a few at least, including some long time contributors (Andy Judkis and Jeff Elkner for instance). Hopefully they will chime in. > > I am also considering putting together a talk proposal for PyCon 2011. So > far my ideas for a talk would be a brief introduction of myself and my > experiences learning and teaching Python in the past year. I attended PyCon > 2010 as student. Beyond that brief introduction I would like to discuss the > state of programming in K12 education in the state of Georgia, as much of it > as I have been able to untangle, and ideas for improving it. > > There's usually a meeting organized for one evening by edu-sig people during PyCon. I don't know if I'll be going to Pycon this year, but I would strongly encourage you to look up other edu-sig people at that meeting. André Roberge > I've completed a few open record requests to the Georgia Department of > Education pulling enrollment number for programming and computer science > courses for the entire state. What would make for an interested PyCon talk > on K12 education involving Python? Does anyone have similar data or a > summary of programming education for another state they wouldn't mind > sharing for me to use as comparison? Anyone interested in doing a Panel > proposal? > > Thanks! > > -J. Zachary Miller > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig >
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