by Dr. Jason Neiffer | Jan 20, 2015 | Hour of Code, NCCE 2015 in Portland
Are you ready for NCCE 2015 in fabulous Portland, Oregon? We are so happy that we are adding a new topic to our very popular Make Your Future summit program on Gaming and Coding, featuring Doug Kiang and Kiki Prottsman. You may remember Kiki from our Hour of Code...
by Mike Agostinelli | Dec 12, 2014 | Announcements, Hour of Code
We wanted to wrap up our week long feature on Hour of Code with a view into the future and to give you all some ideas of where to go next in the coding movement. Kiki Prottsman (@thinkersmith), a prominent voice on Computer Science across the K-12 curriculum, was...
by Dr. Jason Neiffer | Dec 11, 2014 | Hour of Code
Jessi Anderson is a a science teacher at Powell County High School, oceanography teacher at Montana Digital Academy and is a co-founder of #MTEdchat, a weekly informal professional development Twitter chat that regularly engages teachers across Montana and the nation...
by Mike Agostinelli | Dec 10, 2014 | Announcements, Hour of Code
In our continuing week long series around the Hour of Code we sat down with Jamie Ewing, 5th grade teacher from Mount View Elementary School, in Seattle, Washington. We were excited to talk to an elementary teacher who has done so much with coding in the elementary...
by Mike Agostinelli | Dec 9, 2014 | Announcements, Hour of Code
We sat down with Dale Johnson, Computer Science teacher at Woodland Middle school, in Coeur d’Alene, ID to discuss how he has brought coding into his school. How did you get started teaching coding in 6th grade? That is awesome especially since most schools in...
by Dr. Jason Neiffer | Dec 8, 2014 | Hour of Code
NCCE and the Tech-Savvy Teachers are proud to celebrate the Hour of Code this week. Throughout the week, we will be visiting teachers, professionals and schools throughout the Pacific Northwest to talk about code events around our region and novel ways to reimagine...