Category: stem
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The Daily Oklahoman Shares Yukon Scratch Camp Learning with Oklahoma City Readers
The Daily Oklahoman (NewsOK.com) is the largest metro newspaper in Oklahoma City. They published an article today about last week’s Scratch Camp, “Computers take center stage during Yukon’s spring break.” I was very glad to see they included several photos in the article showing we had good participation from both girls and boys. I was…
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Yukon Review Covers Spring Break 2013 Oklahoma Scratch Camp
On Saturday, March 23, 2013, the Yukon Review newspaper ran Jim Powell’s article in section C titled, “Students spend spring break learning a ‘new language.’” The subtitle was, “‘Scratch Camp’ teaches youngsters about computer programming.” Since archives of the Yukon Review’s articles are not currently accessible on the open web and are not indexed by…
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Lessons Learned From Day 3 Of Scratch Camp
This is an audio reflection by Wesley Fryer after day three of the spring break Scratch camp in Yukon Oklahoma in March 2013. Scratch is a wonderful, FREE software program from MIT which allows students to create games, tell stories, create animations, and make many other kinds of interactive projects. The “NINJA SURVIVE” project mentioned…
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Podcast400: Lessons Learned After Two Days of Scratch Camp (March 2013)
This podcast is a recorded conversation between Chris Simon and Wesley Fryer after day two of the Spring Break 2013 Scratch Camp at Skyview Elementary School in Yukon, Oklahoma. Scratch is a wonderful, FREE software program from MIT which allows students to create games, tell stories, create animations, and make many other kinds of interactive…
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Inspired by the First All-Female USAF Boeing E-3 Sentry Air Crew
(cross-posted from Learning Signs, our family learning blog) Rachel and Sarah had a wonderful opportunity yesterday to visit Tinker Air Force Base by Oklahoma City and tour a Boeing E-3 Sentry (AWACS) aircraft with the first all-female crew in the history of the US Air Force. The girls spent about ten minutes in the cockpit…
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Scratch Gold
I received around 75 thank you notes today from 2nd and 3rd graders at Skyview Elementary School in Yukon Public Schools. A couple of weeks ago I had an opportunity to introduce them to Scratch software, thanks to an invitation from their STEM teacher, Crystal Butcher. I read all of these and decorated one wall…
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Spring Break 2013 Scratch Camp in Yukon, Oklahoma
I’m delighted to announce The Div Jr. and Yukon Public Schools will be hosting a “Scratch Camp” for Oklahoma students in grades 2-6 this year over spring break, from Monday March 18th to Friday March 22nd, 9 am to noon each day. Online registration is available NOW on The Div’s website, and scholarships ARE available…
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5 Hours of Professional Development Podcasts from Yukon Today
Today I shared five different presentations for teachers in Yukon Public Schools in the district’s annual professional development conference. I recorded audio for each session and published them to my secondary podcast channel, “Fuel for Educational Change Agents.” Here are the session titles, descriptions, resource links, and podcast audio links.