Macy Tate

Summary of attendance

Summary

  • December 4, 2017 at 7:41 PM
  • Visible to group members and anyone with the link
I actually thought this was a really cool webinar. Wesley Fryer showed us how to use the scratch app and create projects for students in our classrooms to work on. These projects have to do with coding but they can be simple or students can work their way up to more challenging ones. He showed us different ways to incorporate scratch into group settings or also just with individuals. He gave us tips and tricks on how to make it more accessible for the younger children which I really liked because sometimes I feel like it is hard to teach concepts like this to young children. He walked through a few of the coding activities like one with a cat moving across to get to a certain block and it started out simple with maybe only two functions then got hard as you progresses. Wesley showed us how coding can help students express their creativity through it and how it does not have to be boring at all. I actually want to use this now to work on coding. It is something I have gotten more interested in and would like to be really good at it so that I can help my future students get invested in it and work through problems they have with it.