Thing 7 - Flicker Upload

I can use this in the classroom to teach organization.  I found it hard to go backwards and organize photos after the event has passed.

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Thing 6 - Flickr

Magnetic field in a turbulent plasma

I added this comment to Tulasinandan's Photostream after searching CT on Flickr:
I am scaling computational thinking education in K-5 and taking this course called 23 Things. We had to search a concept in Flickr, and found this. Interesting very few people tag CT. Would like to know if you have a blog that can support scaling CT in public schools. If you do, you can add a comment on my blog www.build-a-brain.com and we can "talk". I teach computer science through the arts.

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What more can I say - teach computer science through the arts. This attracts people who are not into competition and gaming into studying computer science. Start exploring this idea as we explored Flickr on my Graphic Programming site.

Thing 5 - RSS Management

I will have to play around with this some more to get comfortable. One thing I did was add my student's blogs to a folder in Google Reader. Figured it out, but it was not straight forward; there are so many choices. But, this will be very useful once I get over the learning curve to follow some special students. That way I only have to look one place and see who is keeping up with their computational thinking. CT was one thing I searched and got caught up in the information, so got behind with time. But, I did subscribe to some blogs and the reader will really help when I want to continue this research.

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Managing Blogs by creating folders is the same thing as breaking down a problem into smaller parts. This is a key concept in computer science. This can be used to help kids master problem solving strategies. Have lots of ideas on K-5 lessons to connect to RSS reader management; this is a reminder spot for me as I break down the problem of teaching computer science into "23 things." :)