I wanted a triumphant conclusion to this project. Even though it isn’t really the end of my learning about coding, I wanted to tell you a wonderful success story right here and right now. Unfortunately, it won’t be a post full of fireworks and unbridled enthusiasm. However, does learning have to always shine bright? I don’t think it needs it needs to be perfect or pretty. I was originally focused on ending this project with a big bang. I tried to do this with one last coding adaptation for my website. The one last piece of gray text on my website is lost and almost undecipherable on the black background. This gray text is found as the text for all of my blog comments. I tried and tried to figure out where exactly I could put in #FFF. #FFF codes for the color white. I wanted to put in #FFF instead of #55555 that codes for gray. Unfortunately, I looked through the coding sequence and could not locate the right place to delete the gray color and add in the white one. While I am not completely quitting on figuring this out, as of this post I don’t know how to make the blog comments white, instead of gray.
Overall, this 20% project has helped me investigate and learn about a topic I have been wondering about for awhile. I did actually learn enough coding to change text from gray to white on this website. I also created my first shared Diigo list with the tag #projectcode. This project has opened my mind to the potential coding has for me as a learner as well as me as an educator. Even though I began to answer a few of my original questions, I have not reached all the answers yet. In fact, I am okay if I never reach all the answers because with every answer I discover, I usually come up with several more questions to ask. I still am not sure how I can best integrate coding into my science class or for my Mayan Genius Bar students. I may need to give students and myself a chance to play with the various apps and web tools first. This way, I can explore and ponder the possibilities for coding in classroom use long term.
What are my next steps? I plan to have some of my students participate in December’s Hour of Code. From there, I hope to continue learning about coding via my research, Twitter followings, and from fellow coding enthusiasts who may be further along in their coding journeys. This last post isn’t the end. I like to refer to it as a temporary conclusion for Project Code.
Overall, this 20% project has helped me investigate and learn about a topic I have been wondering about for awhile. I did actually learn enough coding to change text from gray to white on this website. I also created my first shared Diigo list with the tag #projectcode. This project has opened my mind to the potential coding has for me as a learner as well as me as an educator. Even though I began to answer a few of my original questions, I have not reached all the answers yet. In fact, I am okay if I never reach all the answers because with every answer I discover, I usually come up with several more questions to ask. I still am not sure how I can best integrate coding into my science class or for my Mayan Genius Bar students. I may need to give students and myself a chance to play with the various apps and web tools first. This way, I can explore and ponder the possibilities for coding in classroom use long term.
What are my next steps? I plan to have some of my students participate in December’s Hour of Code. From there, I hope to continue learning about coding via my research, Twitter followings, and from fellow coding enthusiasts who may be further along in their coding journeys. This last post isn’t the end. I like to refer to it as a temporary conclusion for Project Code.