After a snow day put a damper on our first Lincoln Tech Club meeting we were finally able to get started with TechClub 2.0! The "cast" this year again consists of fifteen 2nd through 4th-grade students that are interested in learning more about technology.
The first few weeks will be about exploration and inquiry. There were many giggles tonight as they tinkered with the Google Docs collaboration features. Of course, they thought it was fun to type silly things and try to erase each other's stuff. However, it is important to allow students to have a bit of play time with a new tool, to get the giggles out. We came back together as a group and discussed the importance of collaboration and communications and how using a collaborative doc can be helpful when working in a group (and that next time we would agree to be less obnoxious about it).
The kids spent most of the night playing, creating, and tinkering with technology tools of their choice. We had a small group creating a movie using iMovie, a few test driving the Spheros and Dash robots, and many trying out coding.
The end project for TechClub 2.0 this year is to put together how-to videos for all for the teachers at Lincoln. Students will work in groups to develop video's/presentations/guides on how to say, use the Spheros, or how to use the DoInk app so students can make green screen movies in the classroom.
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| Video curtiousy of Lydia. She set up our new try pod and was trying it out! |
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| Some of the boys trying out Scratch Programming. |
