We are hosing a robot named "Ollie"


We were able to host a robot as part of the Vermont Robot Rodeo project. Ollie will be able to be part of our Samuel Morey and Westshire school communities for the month of February. We used Tickle to program Ollie. First we programmed Ollie to move in a square, then in a triangle, and also programmed Ollie to do some tricks.





Coding with Mobile Devices

Over the past week I learned about several interesting Coding Apps. I explored quite a mobile apps.  I shared the apps with small groups of students and asked them to evaluate the apps and give me feedback. Students were able to figure out the puzzle apps without much direction. The coding apps were a little more challenging.

Our favorites puzzle based apps were:
  • Bee Bot
  • Cargo Bot
  • Daisy the Dinosaur
  • Lightbot  
  • Lightbot Jr  
  • Kodable
I also explored several apps that create with code. Our favorites were:
  • Scratch Jr
  • Tickle
Common Sense Media publishes and evaluates many other coding resources on their 
Cool Coding Apps and Websites for Kids page.