Plan for Wednesday

[Tiffany Barnes]

Hi all,

We have an exciting Wednesday this week.  We have 2 things:

1. A visit scheduled to 2 classes at Kannapolis Middle School, leave at 8:50 am be back at 11:50 am.

2. A workshop with 52 teachers from after school programs scheduled in 335 from 9 am - noon. (Be there at 8:50 am)

DJ is not available because of a class from 9:30-10:45 am - can you come at 11 DJ?

Shawn, Evie: you do not have class at these times

Michael: You have class at 11 am.

I have to be here for the workshop, at least at the start.  

Okan has agreed to take Evie and Shawn to the school for this event.

Mike, can you help with the workshop from 8:50 am (setup) to 11 am?

Evie and Shawn, I will give you a pretest and survey to give to the third period class (they have not taken it). The fourth period class has already taken the survey and tried the tools.

The third period class (9:33 am - 10:29 am) will take about 10 minutes to do the surveys til 9:43 am. Then as students finish the surveys, they get computers from the laptop cart (you can pass them out).  They should log in to the computer and start a browser and go to Google. Write on the board: Go to Google. Type in CSDT. Click on Culturally Situated Design Tools.

Go to Virtual Bead Loom

Tell students that are ready to start reading the pages and click continue at the end of each page. Then when students are mostly all ready, then pick students in pairs to report on one page of the VBL cultural background (There are 9 pages, have the students WRITE DOWN which page they are reporting on, and tell them to just pick out what's most interesting about what they learn on the page - don't let them just read the page out loud). (Be sure to tell them exactly the title of the page they are reporting on).

Then give the pairs time to report - this will take about 10-15 minutes, til about 10 am.  Then ask the students to go to the Software page.

Have the students practice with the point tool, the line tool, the triangle, and rectangle tools, til about 10:08 am.  Then have them click on the picture at the top right and pick a design to copy.  Go around and help the groups copy their design. If students want to make something else that is fine.

*** Have the kids print the screen to a file and save it on the computer, you can gather these on a jump drive. Make sure they use firstname - last initial to save a file, like TiffanyB for me. 

Make sure to have the students stop working on stuff at about 10:25 am. They can stack the computers at the side, do whatever Mr. Griggs says.  Then the next class should come in.

The next class has already used the tools before. This class, they should plan a design they wish to make.  Then they should make it and print it to a file.  Help the teams make their designs. Encourage them to use the line tool.

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Tiffany Barnes

Assistant Professor

Computer Science

UNC Charlotte

tbar...@uncc.edu

[Michael Eagle]

I will see who ever is going to imaginon today at the gamelab at 3:30!

I will be there for the work shop on Wednesday.

I'll look and see what days I can go to schools.

We can borrow some laptops from Atkins if we need a few more, right?

[Tiffany Barnes]

Do they let us take the laptops out of the library?

tb

[Michael Eagle]

http://library.uncc.edu/display/?dept=access&format=open&page=1997

We can get them for 24 hours it seems.

It would be best to have the Department or whatever check them out, rather then studnets. "Just in case."