Hour of Code with Anna and Elsa

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I often wondered what are those floaty things in your eye?

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Dads Pull Out Surprise Dubstep Dance For Christmas

The Hour of Code is coming - December 8-14!

Try this for starters Hour of Code  Puzzle 1 of 20

Can you help me to catch the naughty pig? Stack a couple of "move forward" blocks together and press "Run" to help me get there.

Hour of Code Choices Code.org

• Frozen (see separate blog post)
• Play Lab
• Flappy Code

See give feedback on this blog about activities when done. Good luck!

Can we learn from playing games?

Super Stacker 2
http://www.k ongregate.com/games/inXile_Ent/super-stacker-2
Try Super Stacker 2 can you complete the 10 Easy stacks?
Make your own stack, share it by copying the link into the blog comments. 

Learn to Fly
http://www.thegamehomepage.com/play/learn-to-fly/

When the glider is pointing upward what happens to speed and altitude?
What is the maximum speed you can achieve at Stage 5?
How high can you go?
When the glider is flying level what happens?  

Setting up a Raspberry Pi

edX 11.132x Design and Development of Educational Technology - Week 4.

Activity 1 -  Pair Project 
For this assignment we have to partner up and do a collaborative mini project together.
My buddy for this is Eli from California. I have set up the page below so we can add ideas and findings on the fly. We have some others joining in so I hope they can find the link soon..
Collaboration page : http://padlet.com/jrobson/raspberrypi

So far I have found and watch the setup video below. When I get my Pi I will use this setup. Eli may chose a different operating system. We will see.

Getting started with NOOBS from Raspberry Pi Foundation on Vimeo.

Getting Scratch Jnr started in your classroom

DevTech  have created a brilliant website to get teachers and students started with Scratch Jnr. 
Teachers start here: http://www.scratchjr.org/teach.html 

Who Created ScratchJr?

ScratchJr is a collaboration between the Developmental Technologies (DevTech) Research Group at theEliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University (led by Marina Umaschi Bers, with contributions from Louise Flannery, Elizabeth Kazakoff, Amanda Strawhacker, and Dylan Portelance), the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab (led by Mitchel Resnick, with contributions from Tim Mickel, Champika Fernando, Natalie Rusk, Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Chris Graves), and the Playful Invention Company (led by Paula Bontá and Brian Silverman, with contributions from Jack Geddes and Adrian Gabriel).