I am teaching staff development on Tuesday. And yes, I will know acknowledge that probably doing staff development during the school year only is probably going to save the district money, as I am teaching this session for only 3 people and did the rest of the computer science teachers last summer. They would not have to pay me Tuesday if they required us to do the staff development on the same day.
Here’s how it’s been working — they offer staff development in the summer — my session was only one day since there was about 12 computer science teachers in the district. If we do the staff development in the summer, we don’t have to do it during the school year. Thus, I have Monday off.
So what am I planning to teach:
- The first part will be done by my specialist. It will probably take two hours.
- Raptor
- How to download
- How to do a basic flow chart
- Details in graphics and animation.
- Short hands on assigment, probably bounce a ball around the screen
- Alice — will be loaded on the new computers
- Overview on Alice and how to set it up so it does Java code
- Short Alice assignment
- Java —
- Overview of A Plus materials (probably not needed) since we’re using them
- Do a A Plus lab
- Java – Computational Media – where are the resources
- Visual Basic
- How to download VB Express
- Coding For Fun – Cowbow on the Mobile phone assignment
- Creating Websites – my personal and Hillcrest Website
- C++
- How to download C++
- combination of Visual Basic and Java
- Allows Zune and Game development
Probably won’t get through EVERYTHING but its better to overplan and if I guess correctly on how is going to show up, a lot of this will go fast.