I am new to
DonorsChoose.
This summer
there are a few professional learning opportunities that I am REALLY looking
forward to attending. I have been accepted to all of them!! Woohoo!!! Now, I
have to work on how I will get to all of them. Unfortunately, I am interested in
events that are happening outside of my state.
June – Computer
Science Crash Course for Educators (4 1/2 day workshop)
Enjoy becoming a student again and fall in love with computer
science! The Computer Science Crash Course will help you gain CS content
knowledge and strengthen your coding skills in either Python
or Scratch—you choose. Led by current computer science teachers who will demonstrate
best teaching practices based on many years of experience, this differentiated
course uses a variety of leveled activities and coding challenge sets to
encourage middle and early high school teachers (grades 5-9) in all subject
areas to advance their own learning. With K-12 CS standards-aligned lessons on
algorithms, data, the Internet, and the impact of computing, you will discover
that computer science is more than coding. You will also gain exposure to the
many available tools and open curriculum resources that you can apply to your
particular classroom needs.
Cost: airplane ticket, food, lodging, transportation, workshop fee
Here is my DonorsChoose page for this event: https://donorschoo.se/e/ZWTKMViCbN
July – Coding as a Playground: Scratchjr and KIBO Robotics
Pathfinders Summer Institute 2018 is an intensive week of in-person professional development in Computer Science and Making. The Institute will be hosted by Infosys Foundation USA at Indiana University Bloomington from July 15-20, 2018.
Coding as a Playground:
Scratchjr and KIBO Robotics professional development targets teachers working
with young children PreK-2 who are interested in integrating computer science
(CS), computational thinking (CT) and robotics into their early childhood
classrooms with a playful developmentally appropriate approach.
Cost: airplane ticket, food, lodging, transportation, workshop fee
The Infosys Foundation USA is supporting educators by matching half of the cost for the week long learning summit.
"Donations to this project are now being matched, thanks to support from Infosys Foundation USA. At Infosys Foundation USA our mission is to help bridge the digital divide in America and to bring to everyone the skills needed to become creators, not just consumers, of technology. We are proud to support teachers everywhere who are working to bring greater access and inclusion in computer science education."
If attendees do not have funding from their district, they are recommending to go to DonorsChoose and create a professional learning project.
Here is my DonorsChoose page for this event: https://donorschoo.se/e/BDZnvqfCbN
August – Picademy
– Seattle
Picademy is a
two-day digital making workshop full of new learning opportunities, team
collaboration, and community
building. To give you the full picture, let’s take a look at previous Picademy
events and hear directly from educators
who graduated from the program last summer.
Cost: airplane ticket, food, transportation . I am lucky enough to stay with a friend and this is has a no cost registration for the two day event!
Depending on how my first to projects go on DonorsChoose, I may create another project for this trip!
My problem is,
I am not finding people/companies to make a donation in the first place. I’m not going to
ask family and friends to make a donation to my learning. Instead, I would love
to find people who are seeking out the opportunity to make a donation.
Solution, I am taking this to social media for help! For
people who have used DonorsChoose, where are you finding your donors?
Side note- When you write about DonorsChoose, do you type it as one word like I do or do you separate them?
