Pledges
Administrators & Counselors
We blogged about CSEDWeek and generally disseminate CS to high school students as much as possible, in line with Oregon’s OPAS goals. the blog: http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/getreal/2011/12/csedweek-org/ OPAS: http://opas.ous.edu/
Daryl Hepting - CIPS (Canadian Information Processing Society) and the University of Regina are co-sponsoring a luncheon on Tuesday, December 6 at the Delta Hotel in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The guest speaker will be Dean Elliott, Science Consultant for the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education, who will talk about the future of computer science education in Saskatchewan.
I am judging applications for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing! I utilize my Edtech education to blog, tweet, and share resources for computer science education!
Trent Smith, External communications specialist for SAS, tells us about his company’s pledges: “Business analytics company SAS has reached out to its many contacts in the education world through blog posts, multiple Facebook pages, tweets and direct emails. The CSEdWeek logo is on our website, and one of our iPad app developers has been interviewed for a Science Lives piece. The response from teachers and education leaders, particularly in NC, has been tremendous.”
Elaine Whitaker, Career Development Coordinator at Cape Hatteras Secondary School, is using the CSTA CSEdWeek daily video clips for the morning announcements!!
Debra Richardson, Chair of CSEdWeek - We’re having a contest here at CSEdWeek headquarters to see who comes closest to guessing the number of pledges we’ll get for CSEdWeek. If you want to participate, send an email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)!
Shemeka Shufford, the CTE Coordinator for Chalrotte-Mecklenburg Schools in Charlotte, North Carolina, will be distributing activities to be conducted in the classroom to all middle schools in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Teachers will be given opportunities to win resources for their classrooms based on the number of activities conducted in their classrooms throughout the week. Students will have an opportunity to enter a writing contest inclusive of poems and essays on “What Computer Science means to Me”
Debbiee Stotts, a HiC Teacher in Ocean Beach School District, will teach her 19 highly capable students to create a blog on the school district website, insert pictures, insert a weblink, approve comments as an administrator, and leave comments on other students’ blogs. We will also take digital pictures of our blogging experiences and insert them into a Word document to publish a newsletter! The newsletter will be emailed to parents, informing them and highlight our blogging achievements.
Michael Terrazas, Interim Communications Director at Georgia Tech College of Computing, will conduct a social media campaign (Facebook & Twitter) to promote Computer Science Education Week in general and our CS education activities in particular.
Vernon Smith, Director of Technology for the Socorro Consolidate of Schools and President-Elect of the New Mexico Society for Technology in Education (NMSTE) and the Chairperson of the Council on Technology in Education, will use my technology blog to support the efforts of CSEdWeek. Those of us committed to integrating Technology into the classroom need to be advocates of students and learning, not just advocates for technology.
Marta Rosa, a Biology teacher in the Department of Education of Puerto Rico, will have 10th grade students present their Scientific Fair Projects in in a Science Symposium. They learn to use Power Point, make a public presentation and use hardware such as the smart board, display and computer.
Each student prepares their own scientific work in a presentation format learning to change and use the correct font size and color, background, insert pictures, tables and print the 3 slide handouts.
They present their work to the school community and parents.Pat Phillips, a K-12 Curriculum Developer with Microsoft Corporation, is sending letters of appreciation to the principals of the teachers who are in her XNA game development pilot and others that she work with. The purpose is to draw attention to the work they do in preparing their students in computer science and to make the principal aware of their work and the importance of their work.
Lisa Kaczmarczyk, with ACM Education Council, will be composing a column for Inroads magazine that will discuss CS Education week. The article will appear three months from now and serve as a refresher of what is to happen (and by then will have happened) and as a reminder that the importance of CS Education is a year round activity.
She will also promote on my blog during that week the final week activities and projects of the APCS Principles pilot project that is taking place at UCSD. Anyone who will be in the San Diego area is welcome to contact her (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) if they would like information about seeing the student final projects.
Julie Benyo, the Director of Dot Diva, promotes the impact of computer science. “What’s your passion? Do you want to be creative, work with great people, and change the world? You can make it happen with computing. Learn more about how through Dot Diva (dotdiva.org).”
