We\u2019re at John Paul II Catholic High School and Leon Schram is presenting. The facility is wonderful and Leon has been doing this AP thing even longer than I have.<\/p>\n
The facility here is gorgeous. The students have their own computers so Leon provided a few notebooks and desktops for people who didn\u2019t have them, or didn\u2019t bring them.<\/p>\n
Has full technology set up with technical support. Nice big LCD TV, two projectors, and a regular white board. Will be interesting to see how he implements. The desks are set up with wired connections, and they have wireless network. Today, at least, I\u2019m using my 3G router.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m going to try to live blog on a network, and work on a network.<\/p>\n
We will get a full set of presentations each day via CD. Will have to pull out my external CD Drive.<\/p>\n
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First focus is on getting everyone on the same page with the same files. <\/p>\n
And in the meantime, I\u2019m having problems with the ATT 3G network. May be plugging into their wired network.<\/p>\n
Which I did end up doing.<\/p>\n
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Most of the morning is getting everyone on the same page.<\/p>\n
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After introductions, Leon went over the AP Audit process. As of the moment, I am showing that I need to be updated in August. So far, as long as you are at the same school and same course, you don\u2019t have to make any changes.<\/p>\n
The AP administrator just needs to update everything in August.<\/p>\n
Leon lets new teachers use his syllabus as long as they are actually teaching with his syllabus.<\/p>\n
Make sure you use the correct terms or your syllabus will not be approved.<\/p>\n
Leon has shared two Syllabus one with and one without PreAP. By the way, because of my student backgrounds, I think PreAP is extremely important, and won\u2019t let a kid in AP without it.<\/p>\n
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Leon says that time is a huge issue and that is why you should teach PreAP Computer Science. My issue is that many of my students have not touched computers since 7th grade \u2013 last required Computer Course.<\/p>\n
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Discussed the fact that students are pushed into the AP track in English and Math in elementary school. AP Computer Science is one of the few AP Courses that stand alone, and have no path from elementary school.<\/p>\n
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Short break<\/p>\n
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Time Management<\/p>\n
Boy howdy, he\u2019s right on this!<\/p>\n
Biggest problem is getting enough material covered before the exam.<\/p>\n
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Showing us how to create an executable Jar file<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not sure why I want to do this. <\/em><\/p>\n They don\u2019t work with DOS boxes and they don\u2019t work with Applets. Doesn\u2019t make sense to work with an Applet, and the DOS box thing is the reason I\u2019m not sure I care. We\u2019re using A+ materials in Dallas, and very few of those labs are not DOS box.<\/p>\n We\u2019re going through the process, and I am STILL not sure why we are doing this.<\/p>\n By the way, I\u2019m not providing his directions but you do have to follow them to the exact sentence. This is a carriage return that if you don\u2019t provide it, it won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n I think he did it to make a teaching point, not a programming point.<\/p>\n In fact, a lot of today is set for the new teacher. That\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n ——<\/p>\n Gridworld<\/p>\n Since I am an experienced teacher, I was sent out to build a Lego robot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We\u2019re at John Paul II Catholic High School and Leon Schram is presenting. The facility is wonderful and Leon has been doing this AP thing even longer than I have. The facility here is gorgeous. The students have their own computers so Leon provided a few notebooks and desktops for people who didn\u2019t have them, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}