Week of Sept 30 - Oct 4, 2013

Monday:

• Scratch projects due at the beginning of class - 
• hand in printed writeup
• to turn in the actual program,  go to "file->download to your computer" menu item, and download the program file to your computer.  Name it "period - yourname.sb2" so it looks like "per1 - malvika.sb2" for example, and email it to me.  If the file is too big to email, you can bring it in on a USB, or we will figure something out. 
• make sure your project is shared on the Scratch website, then add your URL beside your name on this spreadsheet.  This will allow your classmates to admire your work, and you to admire theirs.

• Go over Scratch quizzes. 
• Introduction to HTML and CSS.
• Hand out "Computer Pioneers" project.
• Give out Design Principles handout - read it for Wednesday.  There will be a simple quiz.

Tuesday:

• Continue to work on First HTML exercises, due by the end of lunch.  Students who finish early can work on Pioneers project.
• Start presentation on CSS styles.
• Second HTML assignment available. 

Wednesday:

• Quiz on CRAP design principles.
• Group C current topic writeups due
• Discuss design principles.
• Everyone working on second HTML assignment.

Thursday:

• Group C current topic discussions
• Everyone working on second HTML assignment.

 
Friday:

• JSUMC rotation #1

Week of Sept 23 - 27, 2013

Monday:

• Introduce cloning of sprites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e8ApwSh84U
• Go around room, everyone briefly describe their project
• Continue to work on Scratch projects

Tuesday:

• Continue to work on Scratch projects
• Here's a great short video on making a scrolling game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGwPvljUV2o

Wednesday:

• Scratch quiz
• Continue to work on projects when done with quiz
• group B current topic writeups due

Thursday:

• Group B current topic presentations
• introduce AppInventor

Friday:

• Students working on HelloPurr app inventor tutorial (videos  or PDF)
• Finish HelloPurr? Go on to the PaintPot tutorial. (videos or PDF)
• Scratch projects due Monday Sept 30th at the beginning of class - 
• hand in printed writeup
• to turn in the actual program,  go to "file->download to your computer" menu item, and download the program file to your computer.  Name it "period - yourname.sb2" so it looks like "per1 - malvika.sb2" for example, and email it to me.  If the file is too big to email, you can bring it in on a USB, or we will figure something out. 
• make sure your project is shared on the Scratch website, then add your URL beside your name on this spreadsheet.  This will allow your classmates to admire your work, and you to admire theirs.

Week of Sept 16 - 20, 2013

Monday:

• JSUMC Orientation

Tuesday:

• Everyone working on Maze project.  Individual Scratch Projects handout available if you finish.

Wednesday:

• Group A Current Topic writeup due.  (Period 1: Nusayba, Maria, Alyssa, Jasper, Alex,  and Jared. Period 2: Gianna, Heidi, Anthony, John, Dan, and Katharine.)
• Maze projects due at beginning of class. Make sure your project is shared, and then put a link to it beside your name on this Google spreadsheet.  We will take 15 minutes at the beginning of class to allow you to share your work.
• Discuss Scratch concepts - parallelism and threads, broadcast, race conditions, cloning, "more blocks", etc.
• Introduce Individual Scratch Projects assignment

Thursday:

• Group A oral presentations
• Everyone working on Individual Scratch Projects

Friday:

• Everyone working on Individual Scratch Projects
• The project handout says that the preliminary homework for Scratch Project is due at the beginning of class.  I have changed that, it will now be due at END of class.

Welcome to Fall 2013!

Console of a UNIVAC 90/60 Mainframe Computer,
from 1972  (Wikimedia Commons)

Principles of Computer Technology for Fall 2013

Week of September 9-13

Monday

Here are a few links you'll need for the first day of class.  For all of these, you need to be signed into your ctemc.org email account.

• Who Are You? - a survey to help me know a little about you
• What Do You Know? - a survey to help me evaluate how much the class already knows about things we're going to be discussing this semester.  This is anonymous.
• Current Events Article Signups - takes you to the Google Doc spreadsheet for entering your current event articles, and making sure that no one from your period has already done it.

Tuesday

Make sure you've created a turnitin account by the beginning of class today!
Introduction to programming with Scratch 2.0

• Why learn to code? (video, 9:34)
• Introduction to Scratch 2.0 (video, 1:37)
• Run scratch in your browser: go to scratch.mit.edu and click on "Try It Out"
• Start working on "Getting Acquainted with Scratch" worksheet

Wednesday

• "Ask Some Good Questions" homework due
• Continue to work on "Getting Acquainted with Scratch" worksheet
• Start "Walking Boy" homework if finished

Thursday

• "Getting Acquainted with Scratch" due - hand in #15, #17 (by the end of lunch period)
• Everyone working on "Walking Boy"
• Maze project available if finished

Friday

• Walking Boy homework due by the end of lunch period
• Everyone working on Maze project
• Make sure your Scratch Maze project is shared, and then put a link to it by your name in this google spreadsheet so that others can see it.