At the Maths Fair 2015

Hi there!

Are you thinking about transforming the way your comunity thinks about computer programming?

Then, a coding day out of school is what you need.

 So last saturday, we were at the IX Maths Fair in PALEXCO, The Congress and Exhibition Centre of A Coruña. The fair was organized by AGAPEMA (Galician Association of Maths teachers)

Why?
Because a Maths Fair is a problem-solving Fair!
And Programming is about  problem-solving!
Problem-Solving is Everywhere!

It was a great fun! The event let students the opportunity to share their coding projects with their peers from other schools, families, teachers, media...

 Our kids were teaching  how to create video games using Hopscotch.
The magic words were: " Hi! Would you like to learn how to create your own video games on the iPad?"  and all the kids answered "YES" with a big smile.
It was a fantastic day!

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Merry Christmas!

Dear kids,

I hope you and your families  have a very beautiful holiday!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2015!

* Postcards made with Hopscotch, coding for kids for iPad.

Join the Hour of Code 2014, December 8th - 12th

Hopscotch Hour of Code

Hi everyone! 

I hope you are excited for the next event of the year: Hour of code because it's time for every student to learn skills for the 21st Century!
Our school have signed up and we are on the map!

Hopscotch team have sent an Hour of Code message to all Hopscotch users who want to take part in the Hour of Code event coming up on December 8th-12th.
 Our 4th grade students will participate by using Hopscotch for Hour of Code  and their specially developed tutorials for  Hour of Code.


Come on! Anyone can learn!

Every sutdent in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science.

If you agree, sign your name, join and promote computer science!

Happy coding, everyone!!

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Vote our promotional video on GSD Innova

Hey dear visitors!

How are you? Have you got a second?

Well, if you're not very busy this weekend, you could help us voting for the promotional video of our Programming Project on Facebook/GSDInnova.  It's very easy. Just follow the instructions bellow:

1. Open Facebook and log in with your username and password.
2. Search for GSDInnova.
3. Click on "Publicaciones de la página" on the left side.
4. Look for Begoña Codesal, the 4th Grade teacher who uploaded the video "El año que aprendimos a programar", watch it and if you like it, click on "me gusta"
5. You can write a comment if you want.
6. You can share it on your Facebook, Google+...
7. Hurry up!!! Voting ends on Monday!!!

* Hopscotch team in New York, USA loved our movie too and  post it with English subtitles on their blog. This is the link!

* I want to thank my dear Héctor Rodríguez Martínez  for his great work as a film director and all the students in class 3A and class 3E for their fantastic performance.

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The year we learnt to code

Hi everyone! 

Last week, on June 4th, we celebated the III Congress Ponte dos Brozos in Arteixo Innovación Building.

Many personalities from politics, culture and education, teachers and families were there. 

In the coffee break, people enjoyed the opportunity to see some of the projects and interacted with our students who showed their skills and had a great fun challenging the visitors.
The event was a great success!

This is our presentation "The year we learnt to code" about our project for 3rd Grade using Hopscotch

Coding in Arteixo, our new Website

Hi there!

Teachers and students from class 3A and 3E are very excited to welcome to our new website 

"Coding in Arteixo" where you will find our projects using Hopscotch iPad app.

All  projects were created by 3rd grades and teachers at CEIP Ponte dos Brozos Primary School.

We hope you enjoy our world of fantastic characters, interactive art, animated stories and games.

Just click the link under each screenshot and you can watch it from any web browser, no iPad requiered.

Or, you can open directly from your iPad. Just click on the icon and choose open in Hopscotch.

Have fun!

Animated stories using Hopscotch, Coding for Kids

Video URL

Hi guys! 

Here you are your animated story using Hopscotch turned into a cartoon video.
Well done! You are very good coders but  excellent actors too!

Congrats! 

Your animation has all the elements of a good story:

•  It has got a title: "Escape on a starry night" 
•  There is a narrator and there are some dialogues. 
•  There is a setting: Where and When the story takes place. 
•  There are heroes and villains, main characters and supporting characters, protagonists and antagonists... 
•  There is a plot that is all the action that takes place during the story. 
•  There is a conflict: the robbers try to escape from the police but the hero stops them. 
•  There is a climax: the villains are defeated and Pod saves Hopscotch City. 
•  There is a resolution: Hopscotch characters go out and celebrate the victory. Everybody is happy. It's a happy-ending.

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At the Maths Fair with Hopscotch, coding for kids

Hi there!

Yesterday, we were at the 5th Maths fair organised by AGAPEMA, the Mathematics Teacher Association of Galicia. 

Thirteen schools from the city of A Coruña and the metropolitan area took part in it.

Our school exhibited our Programming Language project:
1st grades were showing their experiences with Sphero, Daisy the Dinosaur, Move the turtle and Tynker,
5th grades with Scratch ,
 and  3rd grades were there to show our experiences in the classroom using Hopscotch coding for kids.

It was a great saturday!
Coding is fun, isn't it?

* I would like to thank all students for their participation and the families for their support.

Happy International Women's Day 2014!

(Click and play)

Hi guys!

Let's inspire change:

More women in science, engineering and technology!

Girls, the World needs you. The future is yours!

* I made my project using Hopscotch. You can play with it from any web browser, no iPad required.

* And here you are "Labels against women" one of the most powerful commercials I've ever seen. 

It's about a man and a woman doing the same things but the words associated with them are very different.

 Why? 

Don't let labels hold you back!

Happy Women's Day!


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My Hopscotch projects for Valentine's Day

Hi guys! 

Look what I made for Valentine's Day using Hopscotch.

If you want to play with my projects, click and open them from your iPads. You can remix them and create a Valentine's project that shows some LOVE!

1.- "Love is in the air" - http://hop.sc/1fjZkwJ

2.- "Be my Valentine" - http://hop.sc/1aOAdDk

 

3.- "Valentine's Day" - http://hop.sc/1eKqhvI 

4.- "Red hearts for a Valentine's day" - http://hop.sc/1irprTe 

  * Waiting for your projects, kids!

Happy New Year 2014

(Click, tap, play and enjoy my Hopscotch project)

Wishing you, your family and friends a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
I hope it brings you lots of joy, health and happiness.

One Hour of Code in the EFL classroom

Hi there! 

Third graders have learned an hour of code in the EFL classroom! 

After one hour of code, they could create their Christmas projects and they did it in English, of course! 

Here we are the next generation of computer Scientists!! 

Congratulations, kids!  You are coders now!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

My Christmas Project with Hopscotch

Hi, Hopscotchers!

I want to share with you this Christmas  project I have created in Hopscotch.

If you want to see the code  click the image below and then open the project  on your iPads.

(Click the image  and open my project)

Hopscotch: Hour of Code!

(Click the image)

Hi kids!  The hour of code is here! 

Are you ready to play with Jody, Space Pod, Mr Moustache, Dino, Frog and the others? 

If you want to code for an hour, click the image, watch the tutorial in English and get your certificate of one hour of code.

Become a Hopscotcher and have a great fun!

Look at me! This is my Hopscotch avatar. I have used the Emoji keyboard to create it.

Pretty cool, isn't it?

Girls want to be engineers, not princesses!

Hello there! 

The toy company Goldie Blox (toys for future inventors) made this amazing commercial with three little girls: Sabrina, Raven and Reese. 

It's a video against stereotypes, against "pink" toys. 

Girls, don't underestimate yourselves. You have got a great potential. You can be what you want to be. It could be great to be scientists, mathematicians, engineers or computer programmers! It could be great to create the things you imagine.

Why the toys for girls are not usually toys that encourage girls to enter in technology or engineering? 

Why do girls always have to play with dollhouses?
At Our school,  we want to change things, so girls and boys are learning  programming language with two free amazing iPad apps:  Daisy the Dinosaur for 1st & 2nd grades,  Hopscotch  for 3rd & 4th grades and Scratch for 5th & 6th grades.

I really love Hopscotch!!