[Yr7-10it] Textbook + Programming for year 9

[Jamie Le Rossignol]

Hi Adem,

I second your first question, I'd like to know about a good IT book
suitable for the digital technologies.

With regards to teaching programming I've used;
C#.NET, I trialled this one year, however, the students where not
interested in any serious programming. So I switched to the next option.
Adobe Flash using ActionScript 2, is a more visually orientated programming
and it provided a good lead into VET Multimedia.  I used to teach this but
the are now better option out there.
Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/) with is more aimed at primary kids, I've
used it for year 7, and it does cover the concepts.
AppInventor (http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/) which is similar to
scratch, but aimed at creating apps for an android mobile phone.
Games Salad, which is designed to create game on the Apple Mac, and it can
do apps for iOS devices.
Unreal Technologies, is the more hard core gamer creation tool and will
require a large investment of time to become good at it. I've dabbled with
this but not used it in the classroom.

Cheers,
Jamie Le Rossignol


On 8 December 2014 at 17:46, Diana Hatch <hat at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> Oops, sorry Adem.  I hate it when people can't spell your name correctly!!
>
> On 8 December 2014 at 17:45, Diana Hatch <hat at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Adam
> >
> > Here at McKinnon we teach Python to year 9.  The NCSS programming
> > challenge is a good place to start.  The challenge itself is in term 3,
> but
> > they also have an online course for a small fee.  I believe there are
> some
> > other good interactive online environments too.
> >
> > Our integrated year 9 subject has a mini elective with Gamemaker which
> > works OK.
> >
> > While it is Hour of Code this week, you might want to check out what
> > Khan Academy and
> > Code Academy have to offer.
> >
> > Diana
> >
> > On 8 December 2014 at 17:10, Adem Sahingoz <asahingoz at minaret.vic.edu.au
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I have two questions:
> >>
> >> 1. Is there a good textbook on the way for the new Digital Technologies
> >> curriculum (similar to the Practice IT Books)?
> >>
> >> 2. I'm planning on teaching programming to my year 9 IT class next year,
> >> what software and programming language would you recommend? Is game
> maker
> >> a good option?
> >>
> >> Also, please bear in mind that I'm a second year teacher(and the only IT
> >> teacher at my school).
> >>
> >> Kind Regards
> >> Adem Sahingoz
> >>
> >>
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