Students will learn the importance of precise programming language versus human language. This will lead into the use of algorithms to carry out a set of instructions. The lesson includes a brief intro/discussion; an activity that uses building blocks (LEGOS), partnering, and closing discussion.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan
This series of lessons will teach all of the key features in Tinkercad, a free, web-based 3D design platform. When you have finished the lessons you will have a comprehensive knowledge of how to design/draw in 3D. After that all you need is practice to improve your skills.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration, Interactive, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study
Communication is key in our daily lives. We need to have access to what is on our calendar – the school calendar. And yes, it’s great to have it electronically, but when there is a large group of people checking dates for an event it’s nice to have a large format for at-a-glance information. In this lesson, students will learn to create a large format 18” x 24” calendar file that could be printed and posted in a classroom to use for reference to upcoming events for the month. In our small community it has also become a public relations tool for our school and several are posted in businesses throughout our school district. Using the picture file format of the design, the calendar is also shared electronically each month for smaller print format in the community newsletter and online access.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan
Following the principles of design and production process, students will research a given topic, plan and create a design for a 2" x 3" rectangular or 3.25” circular magnet. Advanced students will be challenged to create a unique shape for a magnet.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Lesson Plan
Playlist of digital photography tutorials on advanced photographic techniques relating but not limited to comprehension and execution of visual communication through photography, camera use techniques, studio and natural lighting techniques, pre-production, post-production and digital editing.
Material Type: Lesson
Part 1 of 2 focusing on digital audio. This is part of our Introduction to Computers - Digital Media lessons. This lesson looks at: -Sampling Rate -Bit Depth -Mono/Stereo/Surround -Recording formats
Material Type: Lecture
Students will learn how to distinguish different video shots, angles, and movements by watching a professionally created movie trailer. Locate a movie trailer of your choice and convert it into a movie file that can be uploaded into a video editing software, such as iMovie. Students will then detach the audio so it is not a distraction while working during class. The next step will be to locate the different camera uses, angles, and movements as listed in the PowerPoint. Once the shots are located, students will split the video and use a freeze frame with on-screen text to key the name of the shot. An example would be "long shot with bird's eye view." Students should locate at least three examples for each of the camera uses, angles, and movements. Once done, the students will export their movie and submit for grading.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan
Audio recording is an important component of digital media productions. In this lesson students will make a short recording to learn the basics of Audacity, a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application software, available for Windows, macOS/OS X and Unix-like operating systems.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan
The information revolution of the 21st century is as significant and transformative as the industrial revolution of the 19th century. In this unit, students – and by proxy their families – will learn about the challenges of our current information landscape and how to navigate them. This unit is split into four modules. These modules can be done sequentially or stand on their own, depending on students’ needs and teachers’ timeframes. In this module (1 of 4), students analyze their own use of online social media platforms and learn how filter bubbles and confirmation bias shape the content of their media environment.
Material Type: Module, Unit of Study
This lesson builds on How Computers Work by teaching students the fundamentals of algorithms, which are instructions for a computer.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
An introduction to algorithms and their importance
Material Type: Lesson
This interactive lesson helps students understand how companies use algorithms to sort job applicants. It also encourages students to reflect on how digital data mining also can contribute to the hiring process. Students examine resumes and digital data to consider the ways in which our data may open or close opportunities in an increasingly digitized hiring market.
Material Type: Lesson
This lesson focuses on using psuedo code to understand nested conditional statements. It includes two activities that can be used together for a full lesson or separated in to two supplemental activities to lessons you already do in the classroom.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan
An Encryption activity and worksheet for CS0 students. Part of the CUNY CS04All project.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this lesson students are introduced to another high-level protocol of the Internet, [v HTTP]. The lesson begins with a review of the layers of the Internet covered thus far, before transitioning to a video covering high-level protocols of the Internet, most notably HTTP. Students will investigate HTTP traffic generated within their own browser by accessing the browser’s developer tools and visiting a variety of websites. A handout summarizing the structure of HTTP is provided to help students understand the components of the HTTP requests and responses they will observe. The lesson concludes with students sharing their findings with their classmates and a reflection on how the layers of the Internet make use of abstraction.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
The following topics are covered: While Loops For Loops Nested loops Break and continue Loops else enumerate() Applications: Turtle library with loops and decision procedures. Prior knowledge of variables, assignments, expressions, input-output, lists, and conditionals is recommended. For CS0 students. Part of the CUNY CS04All project. Comments Lecture slides come in three formats, are are packed into Instructor_Materials.rar along with programs accompanying the lecture slides. In-class work, HW assignment, assessment questions together with all the programs are in the ActivitiesAndAssignments.rar archive.
Material Type: Lecture Notes
Jessica Liu explains how to use variables to hold on to a value to use later. Variables are an important part of programming, so pay close attention!
Material Type: Interactive, Lesson
Jessica Liu explains more important things you should know about using variables.
Material Type: Interactive, Lesson
Pamela explains the difference between "local" and "global" variables, a tricky concept in programming.
Material Type: Interactive, Lesson
These days, tools exist so that anybody can build a website, but that doesn't mean anyone will want to visit it. This workshop will get you hands-on experience with the underlying code it takes to develop a website (HTML & CSS) as well as website design considerations. The culmination of this workshop will be the launch of your own website!Learning Objectives:Insert hyperlinks into a web pageEmbed multimedia content into a web pageIdentify & use HTML tags to add content to a web pageIdentify & use CSS tags to change the style and layout of a web pageIdentify & use openly-licensed workIterate on a design after feedback from target audienceIdentify different parts of a web page using industry-recognized termsIdentify & use JavaScript to add interactivity to a web pageThe Web Literacy Map identifies competencies and skills that the Mozilla community believes are important to pay attention to when getting better at reading, writing and participating on the web. This lesson is primarily focused on the Write strand.
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