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Computer Programming 101 Through Storytelling | Ages 9-13

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Ages 9-13
Live Group Class
Through gamification techniques, students use code to tell fun and interactive stories to emphasize creativity by encouraging learners to tell a unique story each day.
Average rating:
4.8
Number of reviews:
(35 reviews)

Live video meetings
1x per week, 8 weeks
2-4 learners per class
55 min

What's included

8 live meetings
7 hrs 20 mins in-class hours

Class Experience

In this class, students use computer science to tell fun and interactive stories. Storytelling emphasizes creativity
by encouraging students to tell a unique story each day through video-game-like environment. With guidance and support from Dr. Weldon, the learners use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.  Through the use of technology, including the Internet, the learners will produce and publish writing and link to and cite sources as well as to interact and collaborate with others, including linking to and citing sources.

Week 1:  Students create a story in which two characters talk to each other without
using questions.

Week 2:  Students learn about how CS First works, then tell a story in Scratch where a character walks through a scene describing what they see.

Week 3:  Students create a dynamic stormy day setting, complete with rain and lightning. After developing the setting, students program a stormy day story.

Week 4:  Students build a story around one of four premises.

Week 5:  Students create a story in which one character narrates another character's actions and thoughts.

Week 6: Storytelling Students create a story in which the audience can make a decision.

Week 7: Students create a personal narrative based on one of the three-story starters.

Week 8:  Students create an innovative product or idea, and use storytelling tools to pitch or sell it.


Class is based on the following Common Core Standards:

Use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/W/3/6

“Interact and collaborate with others.”
Fluently communicating with others via the internet, especially when instant messaging, requires keyboarding proficiency.
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/W/7/6

“Gather relevant information...and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.”
Academic integrity is one of the most important values we can instill in young students. Keyboarding lessens the physical burden of typing, thus making students less likely to copy-and-paste entire paragraphs.
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/CCRA/W/8

“Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two).”
The only way to increase stamina is to practice typing passages of varying lengths. Our Typing Tests provide an excellent resource for this kind of practice.
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/CCRA/W/10




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A one-page handout will be provided on the first day of class.
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Meet the teacher

Joined April, 2020
4.8
35reviews
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Doctoral Degree in Education from Argosy University
Master's Degree in Management Information Systems from University of Maryland at College Park
Bachelor's Degree in English Language and Literature from University of Maryland in College Park
Dr. Weldon taught college freshmen how to read and write for six years at a local community college.  She found out that the students were not prepared for college reading and writing.    After submerging herself into a local school system, she found out what her college students were missing by becoming a school librarian (library media specialist). Read her study in the Washington Post at  https://tinyurl.com/yx348k7b

For over twenty years, I have been working as a librarian teaching literacy classes to students from elementary school to college. For six years, I was a librarian for Prince George’s County Memorial Library System covering the Reference and Children’s sections. For over 10 years, I have been an adjunct full professor at the University of Maryland Global Campus teaching research paper writing and data analysis. For six years, I was teaching Developmental Reading to college freshmen at Prince George’s Community College. For two years, I was a library media specialist at Prince George’s County Public School System teaching narrative text by using the Dork Diaries book series.

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