by Dr. Jason Neiffer | Mar 11, 2015 | Google, Google Apps for Education
The final countdown is on for NCCE 2015 in Portland! The NCCE family is thrilled to welcome Richard Achee, Google’s Strategic Partner Manager, who will be on hand discuss Google’s vision for transformation of education through technology. Richard recent...
by Mike Agostinelli | Mar 6, 2015 | Keep Kids Coding!, Media
This week in Keep Kids Coding! Kiki takes a look at a unique site called Auditorium. Auditorium is listed as a beginner level site at CSisFun. As Kiki explains in her video breakdown, Auditorium is great at teaching your students persistence and how to find clues...
by Mike Agostinelli | Mar 4, 2015 | Announcements, Grants, On Our Radar...
Grants, Competitions and Other “Winning” Opportunities Achieve Blended Learning Success The Waggle Blended Learning Grant will award up to $5 million to districts and charter school organizations to recognize outstanding blended learning models withWaggle,...
by Mike Agostinelli | Feb 27, 2015 | Hour of Code, Keep Kids Coding!, Make!, Media, On Our Radar...
This week we are going to look at a much more robust programing environment called Alice. Alice was created at Carnegie Mellon University in the late 90’s as a way to inspire a generation of programers. The platform has evolved over time and is currently in its...
by Dr. Jason Neiffer | Feb 26, 2015 | Microsoft, NCCE 2015 in Portland
Great news! Microsoft has announced a Microsoft Train the Trainer event on March 17-18 in Portland, Oregon. Although registration to the NCCE conference is not required, you could easily couple this with your with our Portland conference to created a great...