What Happened This Week! 10/26/2015

This week started with our PD department tackling Twitter. They created a department Twitter account as well as professional accounts for each instructional coach.

I also visited Rancho Village where we learned all about Socrative. This school has been focused on tools for formative assessments this fall.

On Tuesday, I started at Coolidge. We were able to get all of the 6th graders logged in to their Google Drives on desktops as well as chromebooks! Success!!! Sadly, I don't have 1 picture from the morning event:(

Tuesday afternoon I met with teachers from Fillmore and we were able to  learn 10 ways to use Google Docs. This event was awesome.

Wednesday was our regularly scheduled department meeting and then Part 4 of the Hour of Code series.

Thursday we were able to attend SMART Amp training. SMART Amp is COOL!

On Friday, I visited Wheeler to meet with a 4th grade teacher who is exploring gamification and has had wildly awesome improvements in test scores!

Unplugged Coding!

I've started a 5 part coding series to assist teachers learn more about coding as well as how to teach coding. Part 1 was recently held and we began with unplugged coding or coding without technology or devices.

You can checkout my original post, titled Unplugged Coding...No Devices Required, on the OKCPS ETS blog.

We had the opportunity to experience one activity about programming and debugging and a second activity about deadlocks. All of the teachers were excellent and engaged participants. 

We all had a blast and will continue with teaching with Code.org soon!