Archive for January 26th, 2012

DT PD Videos Available Now on YouTube

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Jan 26

Must see  – workshop sessions from the Christchurch NZACDITT Symposium 2011 and The Google CS4HS workshops

If you missed these great events, no problem!  The organisers have put together recordings from a broad range of sessions to support DT Teacher PD.

Highlights from CS4HS include NZCS keynote speakers, student perspectives and ways to unpack and assess the Computer Science and Programming knowledge standards, including exemplars.

Visit the Google CS4HS channel here

The videos from the NZACDITT Symposium cover a broad range of material including course planning, computer programming and digital media.

Visit the NZACDITT Christchurch Symposium 2011 channel here

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Programming & CS in Schools Survey Request

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Jan 26

From Tim Bell, University of Canterbury

Dear Teachers,

As part of the ongoing work to improve what is happening in computing in schools, we’d really appreciate it if you could complete our survey on Programming and Computer Science in schools. We’d love to hear from all high school Digital Technologies teachers, even if you’re not teaching Programming and Computer Science standards.

As an incentive, we’re giving $20 Westfield vouchers to the first 25 teachers to complete the full survey, and everyone else will be going in a draw for another 10 vouchers.

It’s completely confidential, and we’d love to get your honest opinions so that we can paint an accurate picture of what’s happening in NZ. Please encourage your colleagues to participate!

This project is being organised by Tim Bell (Canterbury), Peter Andreae (Victoria) and Anthony Robins (Otago).

The survey is at:

http://tinyurl.com/nzpcssurvey12

Many thanks,
Tim Bell
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
University of Canterbury, NZ
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tim.bell/

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