As I look at the rest of the year, I keep thinking about how I can truly implement this idea of Making Understanding Visible. Christmas break gave me some time to reconsider my focus, and I realized that I was nervous about the products that the students would be producing. I was concerned that they wouldn’t be “good enough” or that it wouldn’t look polished enough. I am going to try, first and foremost, to focus the second implementation more on the understanding and less on visible, if that makes sense. Not that it won’t still have to be visible, because it will.
I’m very interested in getting started on the use of variables in Javascript. The students used Javascript during the Hour of Code week, so I think this has great potential. The only concern with it is that the canvas that Javascript uses has a scale on the left side that goes down, starting at zero in the top left-hand corner. So, it doesn’t mimic a coordinate plane, which makes me a little worried when we really start digging into the programming.
The other part of my ImagineIt will be focused on ratio, proportion, scale, or all of the above. At this point, I want students to make a video that focuses on one or a combination of those concepts. I’m going to leave it up to the students to design the story for the video. I’m still brainstorming this part, so it may change as time goes by. (Who doesn't love a Casablanca reference?!)
I’m very interested in getting started on the use of variables in Javascript. The students used Javascript during the Hour of Code week, so I think this has great potential. The only concern with it is that the canvas that Javascript uses has a scale on the left side that goes down, starting at zero in the top left-hand corner. So, it doesn’t mimic a coordinate plane, which makes me a little worried when we really start digging into the programming.
The other part of my ImagineIt will be focused on ratio, proportion, scale, or all of the above. At this point, I want students to make a video that focuses on one or a combination of those concepts. I’m going to leave it up to the students to design the story for the video. I’m still brainstorming this part, so it may change as time goes by. (Who doesn't love a Casablanca reference?!)