Class Tuesday, October 14, 2014

1.  Today’s featured websites (in honor of College Pride Day):

Tufts University

Harvard University

Take out your phone and look at each website.  Does it look different than on your computer?  If it looks different, what has been changed?

What things stand out to you on each site?

2. Check out some of the interesting links on our Twitter sidebar.  Some highlights- peek inside YouTube’s new office in NYC; check out cool things made by teens.

What interested you the most?  Why?  Did you find a new app worth trying?

3.  Let’s explore one of our Guiding Questions for the year– Can you really learn how to code online for free and what is the best way to do this?

You are going to pick a site or tutorial from the following list.  Please either look through the site or follow the tutorial and answer the following questions questions, either with a paper or digital Post-it:

a. Do you like this site or tutorial?  Why or why not?

b. Was this site or tutorial helpful?  Why or why not?

c. What did you learn?

Choose (1) from this list:

https://thimble.webmaker.org/project/4738/remix (remix an existing webpage)

https://apps.webmaker.org/designer (experiment with app building)

https://diy.org/skills/frontenddev (web design challenges, game-like)

http://htmldog.com/guides/ (html/css/javascript how-to’s)

https://learn.playto.io/html-css/lesson/0 (html/css tutorial)

http://code.org/learn (coding and programming tutorials)

http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/web (html/css tutorials)

https://buckysroom.org/videos.php (videos on computer science, programming)

https://learn.playto.io/quiz-tutorial/lesson/0 (build an online quiz)

http://www.umass.edu/journalism/mooc/lesson1.html (free online basic web design class from UMass)