You can see two versions of a Python course I've given in Seattle at a public high school linked from http://www.garfieldcs.com/creative-computing/ All resources are up for grabs if they interest you unless attributed to others. Happy to discuss with you or others if interested. It's been pretty popular and I look forward to having two sections of it next semester.
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 3:39 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 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. > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
