Hi All,
As a complete novice I've started a coding club after school working through Code Academy. It's a set of tutorials that lead you through writing HTML and using CSS files.
We're lucky that we have a great parent to support the group who has a background in IT. What we'd like is to connect with other schools who are doing something similar so our kids can chat to others.
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Hi Ra,
What level/age are your students. Are you looking at after-school-based chat?
Chris
Putaruru College
Hi Chris,
our group is mixed year 7&8. We meet on Wednesdays between 3.15 & 4.15pm.
Having another group of students to chat to would be great, or to ask questions of and learn from if they are more experienced than us.
Cheers, Ra
Hi,
We are using code avengars. What I like about this tool is that it is a kiwi company based in the tron! Love supporting the kiwis! They also have camps during the holidays! Code avengars have either java script or html lessons, level 1,2 and 3. Its free for levels 1 and 2, and only $5 for level 3. My kids love it! All girls and boys and abilities. I am currently using it with my year 7/8 class.
Happy to share more if anyone is interested in it.
Amazed by the coding sites and coding people popping up on Twitter - you amazing tweeps!
Have uploaded site links in resources.
Here is one more: http://codeworx.co.nz/
@Boz23 talked about one amazing student who is doing coding as a Community Problem Solving project for FPSNZ: "Decode is a NZ based project aimed at promoting programming in youth." decode.org.nz
I love the fact you are coding with your students Ra, goes beyond them being driven by the interface of the tools - to more problem solving processes or "computational thinking".
Here's part of a comment I pasted in the following thread in Enbling e-Learning | Teaching group: The world needs programmers...
Where kids would develop key concepts such as: