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Monthly Archives: November 2010

Fun with Robot Soccer!

Posted on November 24, 2010 by herbcle

http://www.drgraeme.net/DrGraeme-free-NXT-G-tutorials/Ch108/SoccerGenIINXTG/

This is a terrific site with lots of info on how to make a soccer playing robot.

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Web magazine for young designers and developers

Posted on November 22, 2010 by herbcle

http://scrunchup.com/

This is a really nice site for young people who want to get into Web design and development!

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World Robot Olympiad 2010

Posted on November 22, 2010 by herbcle

http://www.wroboto.org.php5-15.websitetestlink.com/inside/wroboto-rules-tumbang-preso.html

Description of robotics activity for junior high students.

“Robot is required to trace the tracked line from the starting point, knock down a bottle, secure and bring along a bottle to the finish line.”

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Seven ideas for learning how to program

Posted on November 9, 2010 by herbcle

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/programming-and-development/?p=3308&tag=nl.e055

Has some ideas that might be useful.

I found the reference to Project Euler interesting and new” “Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve”

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Introducing students to the world of open source

Posted on November 9, 2010 by herbcle

http://opensource.com/life/10/11/introducing-students-world-open-source-day-1

Many students likely have no idea about open source software.

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Very nice tool for crossword puzzles

Posted on November 9, 2010 by herbcle

If you want to make some crossword puzzles for lessons, this looks like a good tool.

 

http://www.eclipsecrossword.com/

 

Here is an example of it being used http://www.stmary.ws/highschool/physics/home/crossword_puzzles/electricityMagnetism/kraljic_circuits.html

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Collection of Computer Science comics

Posted on November 8, 2010 by herbcle

http://www.garfieldcs.com/comic-of-the/

Excellent collection of comics about computer science. Collected by “Ms. Martin” who is a teacher at “Garfield”.

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