Coding Twitterbots with Middle School Students
September 11, 2015
My 7th and 8th grade Information Technology classes have been coding Twitterbots as an introduction to Javascript JSON programming. A bot is an automated program that performs a function on the internet like indexing webpages or sorting email. A Twitterbot is a software program that automatically posts to Twitter. Each of our bots is programmed to tweet a new, randomly-generated message every 10 minutes.
Here is the complete list of bots that we created this week:
https://twitter.com/booktitlebot/status/641999603274018816
BookTitleBot by the 7th & 8th Graders
https://twitter.com/shockingnewsbot/status/642160661905207296
ShockingNewsBot by L & Q
https://twitter.com/newvideogamebot/status/641851113386438656
NewVideoGameBot by J, C & T
https://twitter.com/restaurantbot/status/641992056320167936
RestaurantBot by J & D
https://twitter.com/shorttalesbot/status/642087681481162757
ShortTalesBot by M, M, A & K
https://twitter.com/lottonumberbot/status/642173239221837825
LottoNumberBot by T & N
https://twitter.com/beststorybot/status/642117879459115008
BestStoryBot by R, H & A
https://twitter.com/fantasybballbot/status/642049944837320704
FantasyBBallBot by D, C & L
https://twitter.com/statusupdatebot/status/642095227516387328
StatusUpdateBot by T, G & R
https://twitter.com/shrubbinatorbot/status/642158137252945920
ShrubbinatorBot by S, H & B
https://twitter.com/toynamerbot/status/642178276409085953
ToyNamerBot by R, M & K
https://twitter.com/newfashionbot/status/642178272705560576
NewFashionBot by G, B & M
https://twitter.com/rhymingbot/status/642175769049985025
RhymingBot by J & A
https://twitter.com/shoedesignerbot/status/642170730575208449
ShoeDesignerBot by C, R & N
https://twitter.com/lyriczbot/status/642178276925001728
LyriczBot by C & I
https://twitter.com/cartoonzbot/status/642140581372788741
CartoonzBot by M, W & K
https://twitter.com/singersbot/status/642065039256616960
SingersBot by W, A & E
Click here to read about how we learned to code our Twitterbots
Educational Games on The Internet Archive
August 05, 2015
Carmen Sandiego series
Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? (1986)
Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego? (1988)
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Enhanced (1989)
Where in TIME is Carmen Sandiego? (1989)
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe (1990)
Where in America's Past is Carmen Sandiego? (1991)
Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? Enhanced (1992)
Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? (1994)
Munchers series
Word Munchers (1985)
Number Munchers (1990)
Super Munchers - The Challenge Continues... (1991)
Oregon Trail series
The Oregon Trail (1990)
The Oregon Trail Deluxe (1992)
Amazon Trail (1993)
The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary (1992)
SimCity series
SimCity (1989)
SimEarth (1990)
SimAnt (1991)
SimLife (1992)
SimCity 2000 (1993)
SimFarm (1993)
SimHealth (1994)
Super Solvers series
Super Solvers Midnight Rescue (1989)
Super Solvers Challenge of the Ancient Empires (1990)
Super Solvers Operation Neptune (1990)
Super Solvers OutNumbered (1990)
Super Solvers Treasure Mountain (1990)
Super Solvers Gizmos and Gadgets (1993)
Super Solvers Spellbound (1993)
Typing Games in Scratch
August 04, 2015When teaching typing, I found it tricky to hold the students' interest. It seemed like a good subject for Gamification/Game-Based Learning. I created the following games in Scratch to allow my students to practice their typing. I left the timer at a mere 15 seconds in order to keep the games quick and light. One student exclaimed, "This game is addicting like Flappy Bird!"
After playing the first game looking at the keys, students played the game with a sheet of paper coving their hands. Students worked in teams of 2, covering each other's hands and writing down each other's scores. At the end of class, we compared scores.
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