Learn How to Run an Hour of Code Event
Jason de Voogd, Matthew Gatland, Zoe Timbrell & Tom Dale - OMG Tech
What is Hour of Code?
- https://code.org/
- One hour of coding activities
- free
- best time to use is 'Computer Science Week' (Dec 5 - 11). Lots of extra activities this week
- You can do it anytime
Why do Hour of Code?
- Every student should be exposed to coding
How to run and Hour of Code Event - Preparation
- Choose a time
- Devices - any device can do hour of code
- Choose an activity at code.org
How to run and Hour of Code Event - During the Event
- Play and inspiring video (hourofcode.com/resources)
- Talk about computer science (how it impacts our lives, how it's important in many careers - farming, fashion, film making etc)
- Direct students to the activity
- Help with the activity "I don't know. Let's try something and see if it works"
- Debrief (certificates, future activities eg code.org/learn/beyond)
Next, we gave it a go ourselves (minecraft version):
We started off using 'blockly' code.
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