CPDU's: 8

Instructors:  EtoysIllinois Team

Food:  Lunch will be provided

For more information, contact Kathleen Harness.

To register, call 217-244-7486.

Agenda:

The-All-the-Etoys-You-Can-Learn-in-One-Day-Workshop

Agenda

June 16, July 21, Aug 11, Oct 20, Nov 10, 2012

8:00 AM -5:00 PM

8:00 AM

• Welcome
• Introduction to object-oriented programming
• Install Etoys Software
• Distribute and discuss Etoys Quick Start Poster
• Demonstration of three/four exemplar projects NB multi-media authoring tools, paints, text, digital images and sound

9:00 AM

• Project 1 Bugs*: halo handles, paint tools, basic tiles forward, turn, naming conventions and classroom experience for scripts and objects, keep, find
  http://etoysillinois.org/library?sl=821

• Project 2 Hello World: forward, turn, heading increase/decrease, stamp, erase, button to fire a script
  http://etoysillinois.org/library?sl=823

10:00 AM

• Project 3 Spider Web: pen trails, geometry , joysticks/virtual and real
  http://etoysillinois.org/library?sl=839

• Project 4 Tic-Tac-Toe: straight line tools, be locked, resist being deleted, resist being picked up, Maker Button, Playfield options to clear collections
  http://etoysillinois.org/library?sl=834

11:00 AM

• Project 5 Postcard: x and y increase, decrease, conditional statements, if obtrudes, is under mouse, show, hide, wraps
  http://etoysillinois.org/library?sl=834

12:00 Lunch

• Discussion: On-line resources, EtoysIllinois.org, Squeakland.org,
• Discussion: STEP/MIT Star Logo TNG and Scratch projects and lessons that use other kinds of OOPL and how learning one can facilitate learning another one.
• Survey of Computer Programming Tools in Schools (CPTS) projects
• http://etoysillinois.org/library?tags=Computer%20Programming%20Tools%20in%20Schools
• Discussion: OLPC Australia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay

1:00 PM

• Project 6 Car Race: random numbers, variables, planning large projects, begin and reset scripts
  http://etoysillinois.org/library?sl=824

2:00 PM

• Project 7 Loco Dispatcher Trains: formulas rate, time and distance
  http://etoysillinois.org/library?sl=1718

3:00 PM

• Project 8 Loco Dispatcher continued including book
  http://etoysillinois.org/library?sl=1718
• Project 9 School Daze Maze: keyboard input
  http://etoysillinois.org/library?sl=1710

• Demo Mr. Morse Class Book
  http://etoysillinois.org/library?sl=2023

4:00 PM

• Time to finish one or two of the projects
• Concluding discussion , the future, how we can help, EtoysIllinois website

*Note: All web linked interactive projects include lesson materials in Word and PDF formats. Print versions provided.