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Week 7 (August 10th-14th, 2015): Robotics & Artificial Intelligence
AcadeCoders Presents: Robotics & Artificial Intelligence This week’s AcadeCoders blog will feature all of the contents that the AcadeCoders provide in relation to the tasks given among the topics of robotics and artificial intelligence. Robotics and AI are prominent topics in society from various field of medicine, industry, software, and
Week 6 (August 4th-7th, 2015): App Building
Welcome to the AcadeCoders App Building Blog! This blog will display all of the AcadeCoders hard work in building apps and games via JavaScript throughout the entire week; complemented with an array of photos and descriptions. Various trending apps and games are designed by using JavaScript and the AcadeCoders get
Week 5 (July 27th- July 31st, 2015): MinecraftEDU Viking Theme
Day 1 (July 27th, 2015) The basis of this week’s theme is to introduce campers to Viking themes and challenges. The campers are being split into two teams where they will face various challenges and games to build the best possible Viking Empire before they raid each other! After the
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Week 4: HTML/CSS
This week, the AcadeCoders learn the wonderful coding language of HTML/CSS! HTML/CSS is the standard markup language used to create web pages. It is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets (like <html>). HTML tags most commonly come in pairs like <h1> and</h1>,
Week 3 (July 13th-17th, 2015): JavaScript
This week, the AcadeCoders learn the wonderful coding language of JavaScript! JavaScript is a dynamic programming language. It is most commonly used as part of web browsers, whose implementations allow client-side scripts to interact with the user control the browser, communicate asynchronously, and alter the document content that is displayed.
AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs
Tell me what you love about your friend…
All the little statements written around each student are some of the reasons their friends said they love them. We’ll do this once again, at the end of our unit, to see if we could add more. I am certain there are more reasons, and during the unit, we will
Robert Munsch wrote back!
We are very excited to announce that Robert Munsch wrote back to Ruben! “Hi Ruben: Thanks for writing and for reading my books. You asked if I like to do other things besides writing. I used to love to go hiking and cycling but now my health does not allow
Conflict Resolution
Last week, in English class, the students talked about conflict among friends. They thought about the types of problems that could come up and possible solutions to the problems. Thanks, Mme Katie! Often times, students will repeat some of this in French with me. Having talked about it in English
Science Fair
Really proud of my students and the wonderful job they did for their science fair project. When Lucie, the judge, visited their project, they were able to answer all her questions and share what they had done and what they had learned. I’m very impressed with their ability to recall
Reflections in our Journal
We are just about to wrap up our unit about living things and at the end of each unit (as well as throughout), we reflect on our learning. Today, we used our journals to document our reflections. The students were asked to take a few moments to think about what
What Do I See? (and hear, and feel!)
I am always telling the students to “show me” their stories when they write not “tell me.” This was put to the test today when students had to use their senses to write down what they observed around the school. They used their jot note skills to record all the