December is Hour of Code Month!

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 01001000 01000001 0101000 01010000 01011001 00100000 01001000 01001111 01001100 01001001 01000100 01000001 01011001 01010011

Computer Binary Code for...

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

(A fun little text-to-binary translator here)


Celebrate Jerry Lawson and Create Your Own Video Games

This fun Google doodle celebrates Gerald "Jerry" Lawson one of the first African American video game programmers. It allows you to make your own 8-bit video game. Super cute and fun.


https://www.google.com/doodles/gerald-jerry-lawsons-82nd-birthday 


C-STEM Hour of Robots/Hour of Code

As a part of the nation wide Hour of Code the UC Davis C-STEM program has created an Hour of Robots and their own Hour of Code free curriculum using Roboblockly. This is the same drag and drop programming platform used to program the Linkbot robots that can be brought to your room by the VUSD Science and C-STEM Coordinator, Aaron Kelly Stephens.

Click here for the Hour of Robots/Hour of Code page. Note: Scroll about halfway down the page.


Speaking of Computers and Technology...

Eric Curts has posted the great 12 Days of Chrome-mas. These are

daily tips and tricks about Google Chrome for users. Each day an

additional link is added to the image. Don't make a copy of the

embedded link so you get all the dates. This begins on December 5

and runs through December 22. Consider this Eric's gift to us for the

season! Check out Eric's Blog at bit.ly/chromemas22 or click on the

link HERE.




  

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