In 4th Junior High School of Petroupolis, Greece 2 ICT classes with 23 students are registered in the project, C2a and C3b
OUR DIARY ON BOARD
19 September 2019
Students of C2a ICT class in Athens are introduced to the project and the main "actor" of this year project: the micro:bit!
23/09/2019
C3b ICT class in Athens is introduced to micro:bit and they have their first project ("my name") and their group photo. The students had run the projects ("name?") they had created in micro:bit testing the BASIC group of commands and the difference among the loops "Forever"/"On start"
The video shows an example of the projects we have created.
videos of students' names *** (to be uploaded)
03-10-2019
Today, C3b and C2a are registered in twinspace and have created avatars for their photos
Also, the students of C2b ICt class had worked on Basic commands and they have created their first project "Hobby/Sport?":
10-10-2019
Today's report, much work from C2a and C3b ICT classes on profiles, twinspace and how posts work, algorithms vs programs, basic input ways in micro:bit and practicing on these, and checking the turtle in micro:bit (comparison of 2 square projects, one with penup to one with pen down)
C2a working on their profiles
C2a: About posts in twinspace -How we upload a photo in materials (students' profiles photos)
C2a: what is there behind the blocks?A "real " programming language
C3: simple projects with ready symbols-another way of triggering input: the buttons, A, B and shaking
C3b: How do we download and upload a micro:bit project?
Exploring the "turtle" in micro:bit
Black box approach of a project with loops
17-10-2019-EUROPE CODE WEEK!
C2a working on pixelart (Europe Code week)
C3b: Creating micro:bit projects with Greek words and videos to explain them in English (project "Coded Dictionary")
Our dictionary, greek words and their transltion in English using micro:bit , check them out:
31 October
Both teams had a session on theoretical background:
Problem, kind of problems, data, restraints/conditions, analysis, sythesis, algorithms and the properties of an optimised algorithms, definition of a program, programming langyage vs machine language, programming environments
They have also worked in a logo-like environment (Microworlds Pro) where a basic algorith was converted into a procedure-comparison of commeand line with procedures and this environment with makecode.microbit and its interface with blocks.
7 November
Written Test (curriculum) and starting working in a shared google slide about weather vs climate
14 November
Weather vs climate
videos and discussion
Why is it important to be informed of the weather?
What do we mean with climate change?
How could we observe climate change?
What are the measurements that a weather station usually does?
Characteristics of micro:bit (on board) that can be used to create a weather station?
21 November
Downloading the HEX files of the students in Brakel, Belgium and uploading them on micro:bit to find out their names. Each greek students was paired with a Belgian student. After finding his name on microbit, greeks have visited the Belgian profiles and they have left comments-greetings (1st icebreaking activity) that was absolutely successful and students have liked very much. They have also decided to prepare personal christmas cards to send their holidays Greetings.Also today, the greek students have watched the Spanish (the elementary school San Francisco deAsis)micro:bit projects , theywere very impressed and they have left messages to these students' profiles.
28 November
Both classes have created e-cards for Holidays and handmade cards to send to our partners
Link to the Christmas page's Twinboard and all cards uploaded by students in materials (Petroupolis folder)
5 December: Preparing the activities for the Hour of Code
Both classes had an introduction in the platform code.org
We had also unplugged activities (graph algoriths) and ways to optimise them and we we had a very joyful time with "angry birds" and with the first steps of "the artist"
Theu had also written messages to our new partners from Tunisia; they had watched their projects in microbit and then messages were written to their peers' profiles
12 December
HOUR OF CODE
we have uploaded our work in the shared google slide in the HOUR OF CODE page
and the certificates students have managed to win in the shared google folder
19 December LIVE EVENT AMONG 3 classes: Petroupoli-Avila-Sfax
(We had last minute rescheduling at school and both classes had worked together in Christmas projects in scratch and on microbit and later that day during the video conference only 4 students could be present)
This video is from our joined classes while students working on Christmas projects in scratch and in micro:bit:
Gallery in scratch https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/25605264/
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020!
9 January: Working on Scratch (2 Heros interacting gallery)
16 January: Sunny or ???? (IF THEN ELSE, amswer variable): gallery "kairos1-g2a" https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/25676153/ and "kairos g3" https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/25662782/
23 January: Micro:bit (two buttons on board-input)
6 February: Weather on scratch gallery https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/25756640/ ///Presentation on weather-climate///Our footpint//Coggle.it brainstorming
13 February: Comics in Pixton for Climate Change
20 February:Micro:bit ->THE DICE /// Creating the members of the International teams
21 February: Petroupoli receives the Micro:bit kit from the Hellenic NSS in the frame of the STEM in Greek eTwinning schools project
27 February : HAPPYYY STUDENTS! We open the robotics kit and work starts with great enthusiasm.
Many volunteers, and we decide to take turns. Marios, Nikolas and Stavros start and they create the Robotics-Powered Tram
One more team works in inventor's kit and creates a wind power with micro:bit
While the rest of the class works in scratch a "Garbage seeker" game (here is the gallery https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/25857506/ with all the projects)
6/3/2020: Resceduling at school (All C grade students were watching a film-Marios and Nikolas 1st meeting in Robotics->"follow the line" No8 Construction)
Charis, Elpida and Kostas: creating a fan with electronics on board
Gigo micro:bit COMPATIBLE ROBOTS #1269
From 12 March till 18 May Greek schools were closed. After 2 weeks when we were waiting for directions from the ministry we had started working in class and we had 4 online meetings in WebEx. On 21 May we have met with half of the students and in 5 June also.
From the very first days, teacher had tried to reach the students using a padlet and also a mentimeter where students could share feelings. From the 23 students only 7 had participated in the mentimeter
When teacher started assigned homework the participation was a little better but still rather poor. Most of the work was implemented during our online sessions in webex.
Timeline of AI
Timeline of robotics
Presentation of Robotics
Scratch Easter Cards
And back to school
21 May: Project's Evaluation//finishing the timelines//Discussion on recorded data about thermocracy in Petroupoli and in Spain (15 days in March)
28 May: Project's evaluation///Poems "with a little help from Artificial Intelligence" For World Environment Day
4 June: I)Robotics-a) Traffic lights and b)TWISTER-FAN
II)Posters for World Environment Day