by Mike Agostinelli | Sep 9, 2015 | Android, Apple, First Look, Keep Kids Coding!, Media, Quick Look
The Zoombinis have finally made there way to touch screens! You may remember these blue creatures if you taught or were a student in the 90’s. Zoombinis is a logic based puzzle game where you have to move the creatures, each with distinct attributes, through...
by Mike Agostinelli | Apr 14, 2015 | Hour of Code, Keep Kids Coding!, Media
After a few week hiatus, Keep Kids Coding is back and this week we have a special treat from Kiki! The featured site from CSisFun.com this week is Thinking Myself, which was created by none other then Kiki herself. As you can imagine Kiki not only shows how to use the...
by Mike Agostinelli | Mar 13, 2015 | Hour of Code, Keep Kids Coding!, NCCE 2015 in Portland
This week in Keep Kids Coding, Kiki features Code Maven, a visual coding platform that gives immediate feedback to student coding commands. Code Maven is: Code Maven from Crunchzilla is an interactive tutorial that focuses on action. Code changes immediately yield...
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 | 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 Mike Agostinelli | Feb 20, 2015 | Get your geek on!, Hour of Code, Keep Kids Coding!, Media, VideoCasts
In this weeks addition of Keep Kids Coding! Kiki looks at an intermediate site from CSisFun.com called Manufactoria. Manufactoria is a puzzle game about putting robots in their proper place. Using conveyor-belts, ‘pullers’ and ‘pushers’...
