CoderDojo Workshop Sunday 19th August - Dublin Science Gallery

[James Crook]

This is for mentors/teachers rather than parents/kids.

We're looking to share know-how and experience and plan.

Dublin CoderDojos are running a teacher/mentor workshop to strengthen CoderDojo on Sunday 19th August in the Science Gallery.  The format is unlike what you are probably 

used to, and should be fun.  It's for sharing knowledge about how best to dojo, and planning around how to make the dojos better.  We'll be assisted by a professional 

graphic recorder/facilitator:  http://elfiegraphicrecording.blogspot.ie/

The workshop will run from 2:30pm to 5.00pm.  We also have a mini-CoderDojo just before it, from 12:00 to 2.00 so teachers and mentors can, if they want to, arrive at the workshop early and see the Science Gallery CoderDojo in action. 

  

We're bringing people from around Ireland together, aiming to build up networking between the dojos, and share experience and ideas. 

The original plan was to have a small workshop with up to 20 people, but there is a lot of enthusiasm for it, particularly from outside Dublin.  We're now using a larger studio in the Science Gallery, and can take up to 40.  

There's a form to request a place here:

http://goo.gl/oDIRM 

which feeds into a spreadsheet.  If you've already had a confirmation e-mail from me that you have a place for the workshop you only need to fill in up to that checkbox.  If we hit the maximum, I'll do some kind of quota and wait-list so that we get a good mix of teachers, mentors and 'others' and from different dojos.

Rather than sending to all these lists for each announcement about this, I have a page on the coderdojo wiki with information which I'll update http://kata.coderdojo.com/index.php?title=Teacher/Mentor_Workshop.  You're welcome to contact me directly with questions about the workshop.

Best wishes

--James.

[Margaret Ledwith]

Hi James,

Will respond in more detail next week. Up to my eyes with the ESOF conference.