Day Of Code

To quote Cher "After all the stops and starts" in the end my Day of Code event, went better then I had anticipated.  The kids had a blast and learned a lot.  At the end of the day one of my 5th graders said, "This morning I did not like coding at all, now I like it very much!"  The general consensus of the students was the same!

We had no trouble with bandwidth which was my biggest fear, the Internet ran perfectly for all of our web based activities.  I honestly feel the 25 minute mini sessions was a perfect amount of time.  The kids left each activity wanting more and not yet having reached a boredom or frustration level.  At the end of each session students left my activity disappointed that the time was going by so quickly.

The only hiccup if you will was after lunch when one iPad was missing briefly, mostly because the student it belonged to didn't put it where he was instructed to, it was quickly located and tears were dried before most kids even knew what happened.

We used two hashtags for the event, the #hourofcode hashtag from Code.org and our campus hashtag #aisnhabe.  I used these whenever I posted a photo on Twitter during our event.  In between assisting students in learning to create Apps I created Hashtag Crawl where all of our photos with the campus hashtag would be gathered.

Students arriving at the Nha Be Campus and finding their name-tags/schedules for our Day of Code!

Getting inspired to start our Day of Code!

Coding Relay (off line) with Mr. Edwin

Learning to code our own apps with Ms. Sarah (aka me)

Grid Paper Coding (off line activity) with Ms. Hannah

Learning about Careers in Computer Science with Ms. Madeline

Taking a break for lunch!

Time for recess and a heated game of dodge-ball.

We take our dodge-ball very seriously here.

DEAR time.

Puzzle Coding with Ms. Kristi!

Flappy Code with Mr. Blake

Reflecting on our new knowledge and skills at the end of our day.

After reflecting on the success of this event the only thing I would do differently if I ever do this again would be to not have hosted a mini sessions so that I could have floated to better support the other teachers and give them a reprieve when the needed it.I am so thankful to have had such a helpful group of teachers being willing to jump and try something out of their comfort zones to help raise awareness to our students about Computer Science!  Thank you Code.org for leading the charge and sponsoring this awesome event! #hourofcode