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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, 2009.

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, 2009.

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, 2009.

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, 2009.

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, 2009.

Notes Home

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

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, 2009.

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suggested getting started with scratch exercise

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volunteer program Toronto 1 Reply

Started by agnes_griffins in Share Your Experience. Last reply by DanG Dec. 27, 2009.

Tools and Resources: Scratch 4 Replies

Started by DanG in General Discussion. Last reply by DanG Oct. 16, 2009.

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DanG left a comment for Manel Viel

January 18

Manel Viel is now a member of Programming with Duke & Friends

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January 14

DanG added a discussion

A couple of suggestions on getting started with scratch as a beginner programming environment: 1) Work with your younger student on going through the 2-3 minute video tutorials on http://learnscratch.org 2) open up the samples that come with scratch…

January 12

Michael Newton I have a daughter who's ten years old, who loves computers. I'd like to see how I can direct that to an affection for programming.

December 18, 2009

Michael Newton is now a member of Programming with Duke & Friends

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December 18, 2009

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 rob…

November 15, 2009

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Sun SPOTs Meet Scratch

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

November 15, 2009

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

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November 8, 2009

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/ashbyr1/71429…

October 16, 2009

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 out…

September 16, 2009

Michael Gialis added a discussion

Here's a nice blog about learning in Virtual Worlds

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

September 10, 2009

Michael Gialis added a blog post

We've been a bit busy....

September 9, 2009

Michael Gialis added a video

Marbleous Wonderland

Brief demo of the Wonderland Week of Code Marble Physics Project

September 9, 2009

Michael Gialis added 2 discussions

September 9, 2009

Gary Ritchie left a comment for DanG

August 28, 2009

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 and…

August 27, 2009

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A+ Dissertation Writing help and Tips

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Posted by Amnada albert on February 3, 2010 at 6:50am

Learn & Get Help With Coursework

coursework help is the general phrase for the requisite contribution of a student in a high school or college class. It might consist of written papers, laboratory project, experiments, practical demonstrations, or a combination of all of these.
There are two types of coursework as direct coursework and elective coursework. Direct coursework is done responding to some precise set of directions in class assignment. It may invol… Continue

Posted by student girl on January 28, 2010 at 2:56am

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