[Yr11 Information Technology] [Oz-teachers] NCSS Challenge 2013 begins August 5th

Fri Aug 2 10:04:38 EST 2013

We have a small contingent from McKinnon entering, we are using this a a
trial year with big plans for next year!!

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>wrote:

> There is still time to join during the first week. Parents chatted to me
> about it during a senior school info session last night. I reckon we could
> do better to get them on board by selling what programming can offer,
> especially with great oz challenges like this. If you have time, listen to
> the webcast by @ackygirl Amanda Rablin and I this Monday evening 5 August
> from 9pm Melbourne time.
>
> Http://acceln.wikispaces.com
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 28/07/2013, at 9:12 PM, "Barnard, Laureen O" <
> barnard.laureen.o at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
>
>  My Unit 2 class will be enrolling on Monday (as soon as I have the
> school credit card in my hot little hands) :)
>
>   On 28/07/13 8:13 PM, "Roland Gesthuizen" <rgesthuizen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   We now have 37 kids enrolled at our school.  Getting excited as we
> count down and hoping that more of you can join us. I'll be giving it a
> tryout too.
>
>  If i can share a secret, it isn't some kind of evil puzzle for code
> nerds but a gradual learning journey with many, many, many guides on the
> side. Read the questions, make use of all the online resources, especially
> discuss problems on the forums and talk about challenges afterwards as a
> class. We learned about persistence, reflection and especially the power of
> computational thinking.
>
>  On the Monday 5 August launch (9pm Melbourne time) we will be running
> another ACCELN Hangout, talking live with some of the Grok Learning staff
> who are working hard to make this magic happen: Join us
> http://acceln.wikispaces.com
>
> Regards Roland
>
>  PS: If you tune in on Monday 29 July you can hear about plans for the
> ACEC2014 conference as they have launched their cool new website
> http://acec2014.acce.edu.au/
>
> *Roland Gesthuizen* | eLearning Leader
> Keysborough College DEECD
> http://about.me/rgesthuizen
>
> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens
> can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has."
> --Margaret Mead
>
>  On 26/07/2013, at 9:28 PM, Sue Bicknell <sue.bicknell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you, that is just what I needed. Probably better steering my group
> onto a Scratch challenge, or maybe code academy?
>
> On Friday, July 26, 2013, Sybille wrote:
>
>> **
>> Sue
>>
>> I did it a couple of years ago in my IT lessons, ie 3-4 hours a week and
>> the kids still had to work from home and we ran an afternoon session or 2
>> as well. They really need to be interested.
>>
>> This year I'm trying it as an external project as the school I'm in does
>> not do middle school IT and I am running 2 after school sessions of an
>> hour+ and advising them they will have to work at home also.
>>
>> Its pretty time consuming but some loved it and were working at home in
>> groups happily, others found it too hard and gave up after week 2 or so.
>>
>> You can do lots without computers, they email you the tutorial and the
>> questions so you can plan your answer before getting anywhere near Python
>> on the computer. Then you need some time to test your result, and possibly
>> tweak your answers. Some student prefer to do it all online.
>>
>>
>> Sybille
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Sue Bicknell
>> *To:* Professional community for teachers
>> *Cc:* eChalk mailing list
>> *Sent:* Friday, July 26, 2013 7:31 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: [Oz-teachers] Fwd: NCSS Challenge 2013 begins August 5th
>>
>>  This has me intrigued and I have a few 12 year olds interested. Can
>> anyone give me an idea about how much time might need to be committed over
>> the 5 weeks of the challenge? I can run a lunchtime session and probably
>> get some class time allocated, but how much is in question. I also see
>> reference to off computer work but do not know how much work on th
>> eproblems can be done before entering the data.
>> Sue
>>
>> On Wednesday, July 10, 2013, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
>>
>>  The NCSS challenge is really worth joining. Details are below. Register
>> ASAP with your students.
>>
>>  We had a great time doing this last year for year 11 and 9, involving
>> all the students into our IT classes. Repeating it again for 2013. The
>> organisers offer oodles of online and realtime help and teachers can even
>> get to learn some programming along the way, especially with the new Python
>> 3 programming language.
>>
>>  It was cool to hand out some IT certificates at a school assembly for a
>> change. Go for IT
>>
>>  Regards Roland @rgesthuizen
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>  *From:* Nicky Ringland <challenge at ncss.edu.au>
>> *Date:* 10 July 2013 5:40:54 PM AEST
>> *Subject:* *NCSS Challenge 2013 begins August 5th*
>>
>>    Hi CS4HS teachers!
>>
>>  The National Computer Science School Challenge 2013<https://groklearning.com/challenge/teachers?utm_source=csteachers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=challenge-2013>,
>> run by the University of Sydney, starts on August 5th for 5 weeks until 9th
>> September.  In the Challenge, students (and teachers) learn how to program
>> while they compete.  Last year we had over 4200 high school students (and
>> some primary students) and 330 teachers from 420 schools compete in the
>> Challenge.  This year we're hoping to more than double that number, and we
>> need your help to reach 10,000 students this year!
>>
>>  Many of you have enrolled your classes, and sometimes even whole school
>> years, in the NCSS Challenge.  We would really appreciate it if you could
>> encourage your colleagues to take a look at participating in the Challenge
>> this year. The first part of the Beginners' stream<https://groklearning.com/learn/challenge-beginners-2013/w1p1/0/>is now available for free, so teachers and students have a easy way to
>> experiment with the content and judge if it's right for them.
>>
>>  Watch out for the NCSS Challenge poster and letter to teachers, sent to
>> the "head computing teacher" in every high school in Australia in the last
>> few days.  Just in case you miss that, I've included more details below.
>>  Also, we've made some changes for 2013, so if you've done the Challenge
>> before, you may still want to read the *New in 2013* section below (*especially
>> the change from Python 2 to Python 3*).
>>
>>  We look forward to seeing you and your students in the Challenge!
>>
>>  *What is the NCSS Challenge?*
>>
>>  The NC<https://groklearning.com/challenge/teachers?utm_source=csteachers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=challenge-2013>
>>
>>
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>
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