Re: [Edu-sig] Joining my first SIG - Panel

2010-10-23 Thread Vern Ceder
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Zac Miller wrote: > Hello Vern, > > The scribbler robots seem to be pretty popular from the replies I've been > getting here. We bought one of the robots to experiment with and the > students really enjoy working with it. How many of the robots do you use? > W

Re: [Edu-sig] Joining my first SIG - Panel

2010-10-23 Thread Helene Martin
I have 16 Scribblers and have students use them in pairs. I find I can get about two meaningful weeks using them. On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Zac Miller wrote: > Hello Vern, > > The scribbler robots seem to be pretty popular from the replies I've been > getting here.  We bought one of the

Re: [Edu-sig] Joining my first SIG - Panel

2010-10-23 Thread Zac Miller
Hello Vern, The scribbler robots seem to be pretty popular from the replies I've been getting here. We bought one of the robots to experiment with and the students really enjoy working with it. How many of the robots do you use? What kind of robot to student ratio? I think that a panel disc

Re: [Edu-sig] Joining my first SIG - Class Length

2010-10-23 Thread Helene Martin
Monday, Tuesday and Friday periods are 55 minutes long and Wednesday or Thursday periods are 110 minutes. It's going to depend so much on the students' motivation and general education level. If you compare my fall and spring offerings, you'll see that we got much farther in fall. The spring gro

Re: [Edu-sig] Joining my first SIG - Class Length

2010-10-23 Thread Zac Miller
I've just spent some time looking over your creative computing class. I really like the webpage. My first question would be how long are your classes? Some of my biggest questions for my middle school group are how far along should they be after X weeks or Y months? -J. Zachary Miller _

Re: [Edu-sig] Joining my first SIG

2010-10-23 Thread Helene Martin
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

Re: [Edu-sig] Fwd: Joining my first SIG

2010-10-23 Thread A. Jorge Garcia
As luck would have it, I just blogged about my High School Python class! See blogspot link below. HTH, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 Teacher & Professor Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau C

Re: [Edu-sig] Joining my first SIG

2010-10-23 Thread Vern Ceder
Hi Zac, On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Zac Miller 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.

[Edu-sig] Fwd: Joining my first SIG

2010-10-23 Thread Andre Roberge
Oops, used reply to user rather than to the whole list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Andre Roberge Date: Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 8:04 PM Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Joining my first SIG To: Zac Miller Welcome aboard Zac! On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Zac Miller wrote: > Hello! >

[Edu-sig] Joining my first SIG

2010-10-23 Thread Zac Miller
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?