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POLL: Are you a teacher and/or CSTA member?

Time for a poll. One of our members asked:

1) How many members belong to CSTA?
2) If members don't know about CSTA do you want information about the organization?
3) How many members are school teachers?"

We created a poll over for these questions, let us know if you're able to respond:

Click here for CSTA Poll

Created by DanG May 6, 2009 at 10:55am. Last updated by DanG Nov 13.

BlueJ and Greenfoot released under Open Source License

Cool news. Check it out:

http://www.bluej.org/news/opensource.html

Created by Michael Gialis Mar 4, 2009 at 6:21pm. Last updated by Michael Gialis Nov 13.

Some additional Scratch resources

Here are some links from John Maloney of the Scratch program at MIT:

http://wiki.classroom20.com/Scratch
http://wiki.classroom20.com/Scratch+Lesson+Plans

http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Educators

Created by Michael Gialis Feb 24, 2009 at 2:10pm. Last updated by Michael Gialis Nov 13.

Homeschool Reference Site

Our friends from the Scratch team sent us some links to related sites. Here's one that seems quite extensive and created for "Homeschool Students and Other Beginners":

http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocHomeSchool.htm

Created by Michael Gialis Feb 24, 2009 at 1:32pm. Last updated by Michael Gialis Nov 13.

Interesting Organization

The "Obscure" organization came to my attention today and I thought I would share:

https://www.obscure.org/

Some useful information is also available here. They seem to have done and be doing things that are of interest to this community.

Created by Michael Gialis Feb 24, 2009 at 1:06pm. Last updated by Michael Gialis Nov 13.

Notes Home

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Created by Michael Gialis Feb 18, 2009 at 8:19pm. Last updated by Michael Gialis Nov 13.

Java Mobility Podcasts

Two recent Java Mobility Podcast's have been about Engage with Java technologies! Check them out:

Java Mobility Podcast 74: BlueJ and Greenfoot

Ian Utting from the University of Kent and BlueJ and Greenfoot development talks about both products while at SIG/CSE.

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Created by Jessica Orquina Mar 31, 2009 at 2:21pm. Last updated by Jessica Orquina Nov 11.

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volunteer program Toronto

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Tools and Resources: Scratch 4 Replies

Started by DanG in General Discussion. Last reply by DanG Oct 16.

Here's a nice blog about learning in Virtual Worlds

Started by Michael Gialis in Share Your Experience Sep 11.

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Michael Gialis commented on Michael Gialis's video 'Sun SPOTs Meet Scratch'

This is a nice overview and demonstration of some recent additions to Project Sun SPOT from PESCED member and researcher at Sun Labs, Randy Smith. Sun SPOTs are an embedded development platform that can be used as intelligent sensors, autonomous r...

November 15

Michael Gialis added a video

Sun SPOTs Meet Scratch

Shows how the Sun SPOT devices interact with the Scratch programming environment.

November 15

Joseph Azevedo is now a member of Programming with Duke & Friends

Welcome Them!

November 8

DanG replied to DanG's discussion 'Tools and Resources: Scratch'

There are some excellent tutorials on using scratch posted as scratch projects by Rick Ashby from the http://scratched.media.mit.edu site: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/ashbyr1/216614 "Dialog Tutorial" http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/ashbyr1/714...

October 16

DanG replied to DanG's discussion 'Tools and Resources: Scratch'

A recently opened resource, "Scratch for Educators" (or "ScratchEd" for short... get it... scratched... anyway...) is a great resource for anyone mulling over whether scratch is something you could use with students. Even if you're not, check it o...

September 16

Michael Gialis added a discussion

Here's a nice blog about learning in Virtual Worlds

http://www.l4l.co.uk/?p=592

September 10

Michael Gialis added a blog post

We've been a bit busy....

September 9

Michael Gialis added a video

Marbleous Wonderland

Brief demo of the Wonderland Week of Code Marble Physics Project

September 9

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September 9

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August 28

DanG replied to DanG's discussion 'Tools and Resources: Alice'

Barb Ericson created 4 short videos on getting started with Alice - excellent resources for anyone thinking about trying Alice as a tool to use with students, go check out the videos at http://home.cc.gatech.edu/TeaParty/57 "Videos on Alice Tips a...

August 27

DanG added a discussion

Tools and Resources: Alice

Alice (http://alice.org) is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to ...

August 27

Gary Ritchie and DanG are now friends

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Blog Posts

How Did I Complete My Thesis Writing…

It was such an embarrassing situation for me when I had to finish my college thesis writing and I was not getting enough time to understand thesis paper writing guidelines, and I wasn’t getting enough thesis writing help.

It was torturing to see others celebrating the success of their college thesis paper leaving me behind. Well, I never lost hope and I once thought of getting my thesis paper written by online thesis writing service. I… Continue

Posted by Janet Wilkins on October 28, 2009 at 10:31pm

We've been a bit busy....

So, this is the first of what will hopefully be more blogs in the future. It's been a busy and productive summer. Here's a snapshot of some of the stuff that's been going on:

1) Wonderland Week of Code: Two projects completed by the project Wonderland team at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. Both have educational aspirations, albeit in a prototype state.
a) Project Marble-ous is a simulation and game that is intended to help kids learn Newtonian physics through play. The values and equations can… Continue

Posted by Michael Gialis on September 9, 2009 at 5:42pm