This week I got to work with my Professional Learning Network to create a mini unit that uses what we have learned in this course to create a unit that uses social media. I like to work with a PLN to do a project like this. I find it fascinating to be able to work with others that are in different parts of the country to create one project. Since this is a summer course, we all have different schedules and are in different time zones. This presents a challenge, but is easy to overcome using social media like Google Docs and Facebook. We are also using Edmodo to build our unit. Edmodo allows students to collaborate and post to their PLN in the class in a similar way that they could in Facebook.
Our curriculum has students working through a tutorial on introductory coding using basic coding language. The students go through the beginning portion of the tutorial and learn about the different types of commands that can be used in coding. Students have to tweet their thoughts to other students, make blog entries and comments, and share artifacts that they found on the internet that would be helpful to others. This unit combines all the different tools that we learned about in this session.
Link for the mini curriculum
Our curriculum has students working through a tutorial on introductory coding using basic coding language. The students go through the beginning portion of the tutorial and learn about the different types of commands that can be used in coding. Students have to tweet their thoughts to other students, make blog entries and comments, and share artifacts that they found on the internet that would be helpful to others. This unit combines all the different tools that we learned about in this session.
Link for the mini curriculum