Recently, I finished an outline of how my program would work, and I decided to start programming in Groovy. My step-dad uses Groovy in his day-to-day programming, so I thought I would try to use it for my project. Groovy doesn't require too many words, but it still has features like closures and object-oriented programming. I will try doing my program in Groovy before any other language. Here's part of my code:
class Operand {
Boolean binary;
Closure closure;
def Operand(Boolean b, Closure cl) {
binary = b;
Closure = cl;
}
}
This week began with a tour of Andover High School for a group of Dutch Superintendents who visited to see how we currently integrate technology within our school. We were able we were able to make a video of their tour with a variety of different classrooms using technology. We stopped in to the special education rooms, language lab as well as the programming courses labs. Dan Brennan the Media/Video also gave a first hand tour of the Andover Tv Studio. I was able to provide a detailed description of the work students do at the innovation lab and help desk for our visitors as well.
This week I had the opportunity to work with Isa Perez in the World Language department to have an overview of Google Classroom and how she could use it with her students. We also went over the process of adding new page, re-sizing images and content for those pages. As you can see from the photo of her Google site her page looks great and she is excited to add a calendar for her students as well.
Also in the World Language Department Diana Zawil has been using a variety of great tools to integrate technology into her courses. She is using the cartoon creator http://www.bitstrips.com/
She is also using QR codes with her students to quickly get them engaged with content driven language games that she can use to track their vocabulary growth in Spanish. The use of QR codes is growing as creating these codes is easy and can take students to web links,text,images and a variety of other web based content.
Students in the Innovation Lab have begun working development of tools to assist with learning a Google Sites for teachers.
On Friday I have the opportunity to work with Assistant Principal John Norton to assist a student with a broken his hand to take notes for his classes with Evernote.