2014-01-28-GGD-ignite.md

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Susan Buck (http://thewc.co)

Twitter: @WeAreWCC

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URL For these slides: http://thewc.co/s/ggd-jan-2014

Women in tech++

The WCC's approach:

1. Environments and visibility
2. Resources and education
3. Outreach: young girls

Lesson Plan

The following lesson plan has been with tested 5th graders and took approximately an hour to complete. Feel free to borrow!

Handouts for students: http://thewc.co/s/hourofcode

What is HTML?

• Have you heard of HTML? If yes, what is it?
• Every web page is made up of HTML tags.
• What are some of your favorite web sites?
• Goto http://clxeggett.blogspot.com/ and use View Source to see all the HTML tags.
• Talk about Web Inspector, show it on Ms. Eggett's blogspot how you can use the magnify glass to peak at the code
• Use a picture of Grace Hopper (who she is, why she's influential, how she termed the idea of a “bug”)
• Replace Ms. Eggett with Grace Hopper
• Goto Claxton Elementary site, replace an image with http://placekitten.com/250/250

Build your own site

• Goto http://neocities.org, edit index.html which should be preloaded with this code
• Spell one of their names
• Encourage them to go home and make their own Neocities site

Letter Game

• http://codepen.io/wcc/pen/Jakjh

Resources

Online:

• Turtle Academy
• Neocities

Physical:

• Robot Turtles
• GoldieBlox
• littleBits

Books:

• Hello World! Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners
• Lauren Ipsum
• Best Practices of Spell Design
• Computational Fairy Tails
• Python for Kids

Visual Programming:

• Scratch
• Hopscotch
• Daisy the Dinasaur