K-12 Computing Teachers: Reboot - Renew - Retreat in Wayne

K-12 Computing Teachers: Reboot - Renew - Retreat

Vilanova Conference Center:

Reboot your computer science curriculum with hands on workshops in topics like Scratch, Greenfoot, App Inventor, Robots and more. Renew your teaching strategies with sessions on the new CSTA Standards, CS-POGIL, and recruiting tips. Enjoy the calm and peaceful setting in the woods on Philadelphia's main line. Retreat means connecting with your fellow teachers and renewing or forging your professional network.

This event will be immediately followed by CS4HS. If you teach advanced CS courses including AP Computer Science, you should consider staying for the whole week!

http://sites.google.com/site/cstaphilly/rebootrenewretreat

Reboot, Renew, Retreat Agenda:

(CS4HS Agenda Follows Reboot, Renew, & Retreat)

Monday, August 13

8:00 am  - Registration and Breakfast
9:00 am - Welcome and Introductions
9:30 am - CSTA Standards with Anita Verno of Bergen Community College
11:00 am - Computer Science Principles Panel of Educators
noon - Lunch with Presenters
1:00 pm - Scratch from Middle School to College with Jean Griffin of University of Pennsylvania
3:00 pm - HTML5
4:30 pm - Wrap up
Followed by optional dinner and evening activities

Tuesday, August 14

8:00 am - Breakfast

9:00 am - CS-POGIL with Clif Kussmaul of Muhlenberg College (Comp Sci, Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning)
11:00 am - Game Development with JavaScript with Jason Wertz of Montgomery County Community College
noon - Lunch and BOF
1:00 pm - Greenfoot
3:00 pm - AppInventor
4:30 pm - Wrap up
Followed by optional dinner and evening activities

Wednesday, August 15
8:00 am - Breakfast
9:00 am - Current State of CS in our Region
9:30 am - Big Data with Tammy Pirmann of Springfield Twp HS and Slobodan Vucetic of Temple University
11:00 am - Robot Panel
noon - Lunch with Robots
1:00 pm - Humanitarian Free Open Source Software
2:30 pm - Puzzles in Comp Sci with Anany Levitin
3:30 pm - Wrap up and survey

4:00 pm Welcome CS4HS

CS4HS Agenda:

 Thursday, August 16:8:00 am - Breakfast
9:00 am - Creating Android Apps with App Inventor - Beyond the Basics - Ralph Morelli, Trinity CollegePrerequisite: Basic knowledge of App Inventor (Hello Purr, Paint Pot)
Noon - Lunch 1:00 pm - Choice:                          Art + Code with Processing - Dianna Xu, Bryn Mawr College
                Prerequisite: some Java experience

                App Inventor with Ralph Morelli, continued.

 4:00 pm -  Snack, stroll the grounds, network

 5:30 pm -  Dinner

 7:30 pm -  Programming without Code (Mashups with Web Services)
                  Pat Palmer, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University  Friday, August 17:8:00 am - Breakfast
9:00 am -  Introduction to Android programming with Java
                 Curt Minich, Wyomissing High School and Penn State
                 Prerequisite: Knowledge of Java
Noon - Lunch 1-3:30 pm  - Android Mashups (connecting Android apps with Twitter, web services, etc.)
                    Bill Mongan, Drexel University
                    Prerequisite: Knowledge of Java and basic Android programming 3:30 pm - Feedback and departure

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