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Learn About Coding & Minecraft: Saturday April 18 at PLAYDATE OKC (free!)
Would you like to learn more about free apps students can use at school and at home to learn basic computer programming? (These include HopScotch and Scratch Jr.) Would you like to learn more about...
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Podcast427: Battlecode Coding Competition at MIT with Jonah Casebeer
This podcast features an interview with Jonah Casebeer, a 17 year old family friend and rising senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) in Alexandria, Virginia. Jonah and...
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Scratch Camp Facilitator Workshop (April 2016)
This Saturday, April 16, I’ll be leading a “Scratch Camp Facilitator Workshop” from 9 am to 1 pm at the Casady School in Oklahoma City. This FREE, hands-on workshop for educators is sponsored by The...
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Scratch Day in Oklahoma City on Saturday, May 14, 2016
Know any kids in grades 2-6 who would love to learn how to create their own video games? Register them today to join me for Scratch Day at Oklahoma City University on Saturday, May 14, 2016! Scratch...
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Create a Maze Game in PBS Scratch Jr
Scratch is a wonderful, FREE, block-based coding language and website students around the world have used since 2007 to create over 16 million projects. “Scratch is used in more than 150 different...
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Podcast446: Reflections on a PBS Scratch Jr Coding Camp for Kids
Coding is an important literacy skill we need to introduce to everyone in the 21st century! This podcast features reflections by Shelly Fryer (@sfryer) and Wesley Fryer (@wfryer) following a PBS...
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Developing Computational Thinking with Scratch Coding (webinar video)
Last night I had an opportunity to present a free, evening webinar for the Oklahoma State Department of Education’s Educational Technology Division, as part of a series they hosted to prepare teachers...
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Reflections on Learning from the OU Innovation Hub
This past Wednesday, December 6, 2017, I had an opportunity to participate in a “mini-retreat” with colleagues from Casady School (@casadyschoolokc) at the Innovation Hub at the University of Oklahoma...
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Educational Technology Updates for January 2018
ContentsEdTech Situation Room Episodes and Twitter Updates2 Step VerificationMinecraft Winter WonderlandCasady Learns Google+ CommunitySuccess with TabPilot MDM and Explain Everything...
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Inspired by Ohio Student Interactive Scratch Games
I’m presenting and attending at the 2018 Ohio Educational Technology Conference in Columbus today and tomorrow, and this afternoon I stopped by the poster sessions outside the vendor hall. I met...
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Code as Poetry in 4th Grade Scratch Club
The highlight of my Mondays now is getting to co-facilitate an after-school Scratch Coding Club with my wife. Today one of our fourth graders discovered a wonderful Scratch block that simplified a much...
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Podcast460: UCO and OCCC Concurrent Classes, GitHub in CompSci, and...
Welcome to episode 460 of Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wesley Fryer, from March 13, 2018. This podcast features a series of three recent interviews, and opens with a recommendation to try the...
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Podcast 437: The 2015 EdTech Year in Review
This podcast is a recorded Google Hangout On Air from December 31, 2015, of a panel discussion with Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach), Eric Langhorst (@elanghorst), Nikki D Robertson (@nikkidrobertson),...
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Reflections on Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy (Part 1)
This week I am attending a 4 1/2 day robotics workshop at Carnegie Mellon University, learning how to teach middle school robotics with the “Lego Spike Prime” robot platform. This is based on the...
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Reflections on PD Hackathon 2023
Today I’ve had an opportunity to participate, facilitate, and volunteer as a judge in our fall 2023 Hackathon at our school, Providence Day School of Charlotte, North Carolina. This is the second time...
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