[IAEP] Fwd: [Edu-sig] Python for Teachers approved, woo hoo

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Is this being run as a face-to-face workshop or online with something like
Elluminate :-)

Regards Roland (ICT teacher in Melbourne Australia)

2008/12/2 Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>

> Who wants to join in?
>
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> From: kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com>
> Date: 2008/12/1
> Subject: [Edu-sig] Python for Teachers approved, woo hoo
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> So I just learned we've gotten a green light for Python for Teachers
> already.
>
> I've started circulating promotional materials already:
>
> http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=1863073&tstart=0
>
> Kirby
>
> PS:  anyone have one of these Acers?  Good deal?  Ubuntu even?
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/3070254912/
> (might recommend to students, then there's the HP for $100
> more -- same Photostream).
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> So our Python for Teachers was approved for Pycon next
> year, a three hour workshop.
>
> The idea is slightly confusing in that we're suggesting
> private sector trainers might use this "other tomorrow"
> approach of assuming a defacto Python Nation wherein we
> do things a little differently, in terms of how we educate
> our young and so on. That gives us an excuse to have
> some fun with the motif, somewhat Wild West, while
> pretending to be in say 9th grade again, learning about
> functions, sets, Venn Diagrams -- except we've added SQL.
>
> The curriculum moves on through vectors in VPython, and
> who can deny that computer animation is an important
> business, even in tough economic times?
>
> I'm bringing to my Chicago audience a taste of how we do
> it in Portland, am heading into teaching just such a
> course (the math behind movie making) upon my return,
> under the auspices of Saturday Academy.
>
> There'll be more info on the Pycon website and elsewhere,
> in case you're thinking about coming. It's not a given
> that everyone there knows much Python, although some
> background in programming really helps. We have a small
> contingent of actual classroom teachers usually, though
> most of us are from private companies like Google.
>
> Kirby Urner
> 4Dsolutions.net
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> Resources:
> http://showmedo.com/videos/series?name=JkD78HdCD
> http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/cp4e.html
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