Kyle Coles

School: HOEHNE HIGH SCHOOL
Kyle Coles FBLA Advisor Business Education

[school website] http://www.hoehnesd.org

Project Journal
Summer Institute, June 1-11, 2010

Reflection 1, June 1, 2010

'''Having never programmed anything before, I was a little bit worried on how well I would do. After participating throughout the day, I found that it was actually very easy to follow along with. It was fun trying out new things with the "frog" and having him interact differently with different objects.'''

Reflection 2, June 2, 2010

'''It was very frustrating when I had a problem with my bunkers; however, it was very exciting when me and my buddy figured it out by ourselves. It was a rewarding experience.'''

Reflection 3, June 3, 2010

'''Today I felt more comfortable creating my "SIMS". It was definitely easier than yesterday's assignment. I'm starting to understand the "communication" messages better than I did yesterday. Also, I am more at ease creating the "methods".'''

Reflection 4, June 4, 2010

'''Today we were able to create our own games. I decided to do a version of Tanks. It was a good game to use as I was able to do everything with very little help. In this game I used things that I learned while doing the Frogger, Space Invaders, and SIMS tutorials. I am very impressed with the work I accomplished today.'''

Reflection 5, June 5, 2010

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First Unit

Day/Week 1 Reflection, DATE

June 7th-

I thought the virus simulation was pretty fun. It was cool to see the simulation properties and how you could make them communicate to your benefit. The group activities I felt were more oriented to teachers who have taught this in a previous year.

June 8th-

I thought the first segment of Pacman went really well. I was able to make my PACMAN do a few more things than what was required. I am excited to work on it again tomorrow and add a counter and a "VICTORY" sign.

June 9th-

It was very interesting to see the kids ambition in FRED's class. They also had high levels of creativity. I also really enjoyed the DeBugging session. I feel like there were some key points that I learned that I can take away from that. I felt it was very beneficial to have. I thought the ANT simulation kind of dragged on, could have been a little bit shorter.

June 10th-

I thought John Zola had a really good presentation. As a new teacher, his segment on Classroom Management/Behavior was really interesting and helpful to me. I look forward in taking what I learned and implementing it into my classroom.

Overall- a very productive day.

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Computational Thinking Patterns
Team Karen, Kyle and Dave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHvRwdQpUpg&amp;feature=related

At the beginning of the video showing the words going accross is an example of generate and absorb.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/54049/the_blue_angels_in_flight/

An example of scripting is when the planes are moving in a formation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzwh4hSHS7s&amp;feature=related

An example of diffuusion - Starts at a high concentration and goes to lower concentration.

Lesson Plans
This is an example from Sandy Rea's page that linked lesson plans in documents.

Here's a website with my Frogger Tutorial, which also references and links to the Frogger Tutorial on the Scalable Game Design Wiki: http://schools.bvsd.org/aspencreek2/computer/Frogger/index.html


 * [[Media:Frogger_intro.ppt|SlideShow Intro into AgentSheets &amp; Frogger ]]
 * [[Media:Frogger_Lesson_Plan_Outline_sandy_rea.doc|Lesson Plan Outline for Frogger (in progress)]]
 * [[Media:Frogger_Lesson_Plan_Day_1_sandy_rea.doc|Lesson Plans for Frogger Day 1 (in progress)]]
 * [[Media:Frogger_Lesson_Plan_Day_2_sandy_rea.doc|Lesson Plans for Frogger Day 2 (in progress)]]
 * [[Media:Frogger_Lesson_Plan_Day_3_sandy_rea.doc|Lesson Plans for Frogger Day 3 (in progress)]]
 * [[Media:Frogger_Lesson_Plan_Day_4_sandy_rea.doc|Lesson Plans for Frogger Day 4 (in progress)]]
 * [[Media:Frogger_Lesson_Plan_Day_5_sandy_rea.doc|Lesson Plans for Frogger Day 5 (in progress)]]
 * [[Media:UploadingGameToArcade.doc|Step-by-step guide for preparing and uploading game to Arcade]]

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