Brian C. Smith
Mar 13, 2018, 6:29:37 PM3/13/18
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Curious to your thoughts, opinions, experiences, and suggestions for environments for using processing with middle school age learners. Found http://www.openprocessing.org/ where you can create classes for students. Anyone used this site with learners?
Josh Gold
Mar 13, 2018, 6:31:38 PM3/13/18
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Its good. Most of my curriculum became moot when they updated the processing language a few years ago. There is a processing IDE that looks very similar to Arduino IDE. I plan on integrating Arduino and processing next year.
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Curious to your thoughts, opinions, experiences, and suggestions for environments for using processing with middle school age learners. Found http://www.openprocessing.org/ where you can create classes for students. Anyone used this site with learners?
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David Held
Mar 13, 2018, 6:37:20 PM3/13/18
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You might want to check our Processing's sister P5JS from the Processing.org
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Its good. Most of my curriculum became moot when they updated the processing language a few years ago. There is a processing IDE that looks very similar to Arduino IDE. I plan on integrating Arduino and processing next year.
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Susan Fisher
Mar 13, 2018, 9:26:35 PM3/13/18
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Brian,
For three years I've co-taught a month-long unit in a pre-geometry class with a 6th-grade math teacher using processing. We have morphed it each year as processing.org's offerings have changed. Openprocessing.org is a lovely forum for the students to share their work, but we don't start them there as it's a bit overwhelming place when we're just introducing a new programming language and all the concepts of graphical programming. We use the downloadable version to begin the unit, as it ties in nicely with the hour of code videos. We use those videos as a flipped classroom for the first few days, to get the students started in processing. The videos are perfect for 6th graders and Dan Shiffman, the narrator and one of the creators of processing, becomes a mascot of sorts for our unit.
About two to three weeks into the unit we show them openprocessing.org. For those who are familiar with other online sharing sites, like Scratch, they take to it right away and move all their code there and learn lots by looking at other code. For those who are overwhelmed by the social aspects and advanced code, they simply keep working in their offline environment and then post their projects on openprocessing for the class to see. It's been fairly seamless and gives those who want more a quick way to get it. Our school is a BYOD school, and we've had some glitches with a Microsoft Surface, but it worked great with chromebooks, macbooks, and other PCs.
I've also offered an elective that meets for an hour weekly in processing for middle-schoolers. It's a class where those who are so-inclined can opt-in. They can go deeper and have more choice. The students in that definitely benefitted from the sharing that happens in openprocessing.
We presented last year at NCTM about our co-teaching. If you want to get a taste of the kinds of things we do in the unit, here is the slide deck from that workshop.
Lastly, the processing community had their first community day last October. I couldn't attend that one, but hope to meet other middle school teachers there next year!
Sue-
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Curious to your thoughts, opinions, experiences, and suggestions for environments for using processing with middle school age learners. Found http://www.openprocessing.org/ where you can create classes for students. Anyone used this site with learners?
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Karen Blumberg
Mar 14, 2018, 8:33:18 AM3/14/18
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Karl Paranya is one of my awesome colleagues at The Brearley School, an all girls K-12 in New York City. He developed a 7th Grade year-long, self-guided unit teaching Processing in Math. It’s pretty glorious! He can be reached at kpar...@brearley.org
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Karen
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stephen Lewis
Mar 14, 2018, 9:55:13 AM3/14/18
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Switch to P5. https://alpha.editor.p5js.org/
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Susan Fisher
Mar 14, 2018, 10:07:14 AM3/14/18
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We plan to move to p5js for next year, too. We'll miss using the old hour of code videos though. They're a great intro. Someone needs to make some for p5.
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Switch to P5. https://alpha.editor.p5js.org/
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Michael Darfler
Mar 14, 2018, 12:29:39 PM3/14/18
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I will echo group's suggestion to go for p5.js Their online editor is a good way to get started. The reason we switched is precisely because we wanted a better way to share code and projects that was platform independent. It shouldn't matter if you have a surface, CB, MacBook, iPad, etc. As long as you have an internet connection you are all set. Also, once you start working in JS there are so many great environments that you can use for coding including editey, repl.it, and codepen. I have used openprocessing as a repository for inspirational sketches for a project. I haven't actually used it as a programming environment.
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