Week 4 – Student Blogging & Creating Video Games

Week 4 – Student Blogging & Creating Video Games

We've come to the end of week 4.  It felt like the first full week of actual school with last weeks 4-day-week and the week before still doing beginning of the year stuff.  We really got into student blogging this week. MATH REFLECTION BLOGS Last year I did math reflection journals in Google Slides that I had kids share with me.  This year, they're blogging their journals.  I'm hoping a wider audience will lead to high quality in writing.  I had them blog about our first math lessons.  I provided a few guiding questions to get them going, used a math reflection…
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Exploring the Learn-To-Code Options

Exploring the Learn-To-Code Options

I've helped lead the Technology Club for the past two years at my school.  The twenty 4th and 5th graders would meet once a week after school for about an hour to work through various tech projects.  This past year, we spent time learning how to screencast as well completing a few movie-making projects.  Near the end of the school year last year I saw the now famous Code.org video (above) pushing for computer programming education and I thought that our Tech Club would be an awesome avenue to try this out!  I began to explore my options. I have…
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