Attended a Teacher Training with CSTA-Arizona

Howdy

Had a fun Saturday getting some PDU's today. 

Keynote Speaker was Leon T. Had some inspirational views on how to teach computer science. My main take away is that not kids will want to sit and code some kids will want to see how coding can be applied to the real world.

I also attended to two workshops. The first was Popfizz and learning to use Python to make a retro space invaders game and the how to use Python to take data and make graphs. I am hoping to do Python this coming week as part of my hour of code that I have been doing every December for the past couple of years. In the past I have used Scratch but would like to try something new. I have a nephew that works in computer science and seems like he mentioned working with Python as part of his job. 

The second workshop was Phidgets. Phidgets are programmable USB sensors. I hadn't heard about them till today so I was interested to find out more about what they have to offer. Over the years I have looked into Vernier Software and have used their products and I have used Arduino a little bit. I liked the simplicity of today's presentation. I was also glad to hear that Chromebook compatibility should be coming this spring. At my school that's what I use with my kids.

So I dusted off one of my old Blogs and posted on my activities for today.

Have a great day.