Re: Clonakilty Coderdojo!!

[Margaret Kennedy]

Thats great Claire - thanks a million.

A couple of  small things -

Just to clarify names : Ann Donnelly, Xavier Dubisson
and also
5.Joseph James to source the dojo code of conduct re; bullying and being 'cool' and will print this up in large format to place around the venue.

Also Deirdre spoke to David Henry today from the Quality and he was very enthusiastic about helping us out with a venue. Realistically its a better option than the Imperial with plenty of parking etc. and the Wifi would be better. (I checked out the Imperial today and it would be fine also - we will always have it as a fallback and there is a projector we can use/borrow if required)   but plan is now to go with the Quality for the 18th all going well. Deirdre and I will meet with David next week to check out everything.

Thanks again Claire - I will see you Tuesday to prepare the proposal for the Convent.

Margaret

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Claire Morris

Sent: 05/02/12 05:18 PM

To: Margaret Kennedy

Subject: Re: Clonakilty Coderdojo!!

Notes from meeting on 01/05/2012 

setting up Coder Dojo Clon? or Clon Coder Dojo? (think I like the first name- we need to think about that)

 

Present: Margaret Kennedy, Ann O Donnell, Deirdre Connolly, Claire Morris, Joseph Mccarthy, Xavier .., 

Humphrey Deegan, Apologies if names incorrect

 

1. Pilot session to take place on Friday 18th May from 6.30-8.30pm at The Imperial Hotel (thanks to Humphrey for venue). This is have a dry run where any glitches may be ironed out such as adequate power points, ability of WiFi connection to cope with potential high volume of traffic etc. We agreed to invite only a limited number of children to this session with the plan to publicise the dojo for a full launch on May 25th

2. Imperial hotel has been offered for a projected period of perhaps 8 weeks taking us up to end of July. There will not be a dojo held in the month of August.

3. Claire and Margaret to draft a proposal to present to the Board of Management at the convent secondary school, in the hope of securing the use of the convent computer room from September.

4. Ann to set up page on dojo website advising parents of the following; parents must stay with children, need to bring a laptop, ways of supporting your child in the session. Same info may be used on flyer. Flyer to be sent out after pilot session, Rosscarbery had a fantastic response after a similar flyer drop a few days before the first session. Ann has also kindly agreed to give a welcome talk at the first session.

5. James to source the dojo code of conduct re; bullying and being 'cool' and will print this up in large format to place around the venue.      

6. Deirdre will talk to David Henry from Quality Hotel as another potential venue and identified potential mentors.

7. Margaret and Claire to look into approaching personnel at tech park also re: mentors.

8. Garda vetting procedure and permission slips to be looked into, possibly Margaret/Claire/Deirdre 

9. Agreed that all would become familiar with the 'Scratch' programme available through Google or MIT website. this, we learned, is a fun way to learn for children to learn coding (and not too hard for us either). We identified that there may be a need to have different levels  of learning ; the scratch programme would be suitable for younger coders and Ann agreed to teach older coders html.   

 

Hope I captured the important bits

Claire        
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Margaret Kennedy <marg...@dublin.com> wrote:

Resending with corrected email address (apologies Xavier).  

----- Original Message -----

From: Margaret Kennedy

Sent: 05/01/12 10:22 PM

To: clairem...@gmail.com, joeini...@gmail.com, jos...@mccarthy.ie, xavierd...@gmail.com, omaho...@gmail.com, deir...@musgrave.ie, Diarmuid Wrenne, Support Rapid Broadband, pascha...@gmail.com, marg...@dublin.com, humphre...@hotmail.com, Humphrey Deegan

Subject: Clonakilty Coderdojo!!

Thank you all for coming this evening.

Just to confirm Clonakilty's first (pilot) Coderdojo will be at the Imperial Hotel on Friday 18th May from 6:30-8:30.

This will be limited to our own children and  limited friends.

The following week we will send out flyers to the schools to promote it for Friday 27th May.

We propose to do some Scratch and HTML on the first night.

In the meantime it is worth looking at  http://coderdojo.com/help-us/i-want-to-start-a-coderdojo-right-now/

Scratch can be downloaded from http://scratch.mit.edu/ - I will work on a suitable sample to work with on the first  night. Ann will do some html on the night.

Claire kindly took minutes tonight and will send them on.

Paschal - I will call you tomorrow and fill you in.
Micheal/Diarmuid - I am including you on this email as we will use this for group messages for Clonakilty if thats ok.

In the meantime let us know if you find any more potential mentors.

Best regards,
Margaret
087-2445821

 

 

[Joseph McCarthy]

I downloaded Scratch last night and had a look at it, and introduced my girls to it today. I can see now how this will work, they are both totally engrossed!

We are lucky enough to have two laptops so both of my girls will have a computer to use. I have an old desktop here that works pretty well, it will certainly run scratch, is it worth bringing it along?