This week students completed research and took notes about their name or a name of their own choosing like Sybil Ludington. Really now, that was my name of choice but those who chose names other than their own did come up with some interesting options. We also practiced searching for and saving images using both the right click "save image as" or with hot key shortcuts to take screenshot of interactive graphs. Of course either method requires citing your sources which we also reviewed.
Another element of this project is practicing file management and organization. Although I love tools like Google Classroom as learning management systems can help to keep our work organized and us to connect on each specific assignment, but most of the work happens in the background so the students have no need to think about how it works. With the final portion of this project, coding a Scratch project, students have to download, rename and then upload their file to Google Classroom. Whenever they need to save their changes, they complete this process changing the file name to reflect the new "version." that they have saved, just like updates to apps on phones. It was great to see them make this connection as they repeat and practice this step.
Take a peek at the steps of the project and what we are doing here.
Watch the corresponding how to videos on my YouTube playlist.
We hope to share these projects next week. They will use the design process to write and debug their code over the next few days. Stay tuned.
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