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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Ohio Library Council Conference Attendees, looking for the slides? Download them here: STEM Programs That Work Slides.pdf
Thanks for attending!
@MsKallday
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Thanks for attending PLA 2012!
Slides from the presentation are available here: Robotix Blox PDF
Current Robotix Blox programs can be viewed at http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/Kids-Teens/Teens/Robotix.aspx
I’m always excited to speak with creative and energetic people. Please reach out. @mskallday
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
Heading to Philadelphia in March for PLA2012? I’ll be presenting Thursday, March 15th from 4:15-5:15pm. Learn how to use robotics in a library setting to help students build STEM and literacy skills, and have a lot of fun while doing it.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Putting the finishing touches tonight on the 3 new robotix camp curriculums I’ll be teaching staff tomorrow.
In Wimpy Robot camp, based on Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, students have 4 days to program their Mindstorm robots to avoid the cheese touch, create a “hall of screams”, and learn to lift weights.
For the tweens, we’ve got Camp HalfBot based on the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan, and for teens, it’s MockingBot Camp, where the robots go into the arena. May the odds be ever in their favor…
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Friday, November 18, 2011
On National Gaming Day, Nov 12, 2011, 34 Branch Champions from throughout Cuyahoga County met to battle for first place in Cuyahoga County Public Library’s first ever system-wide gaming tournament. Want to get teen guys and their dads in the library? This is the way to do it! http://youtu.be/GMFmQFwWIiY
Parents, Grandparents, friends and entourages cheered on the champions. Crammed into the North Olmsted branch auditorium with the crowds were 4 playoff stations, and a main stage practice/ free play area.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Want to strengthen (or build from scatch) your school & public library relationship? Join us tomorrow at the Ohio Library Council Expo in exotic Toledo, OH.
Chanda Smith from Ada High School, and I will be presenting on just this topic.
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Four days of building and programming wrapped up today at Warrensville Heights branch, and begins anew at Maple Heights Branch on Monday. I designed the challenges and board props to correlate with plot points in Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid. After constructing their robots from scratch, Students programmed their bots to avoid the cheese, lift a “barbell”, speak in complete sentences, and more. We were a little concerned early in the week that the curriculum plan might be too advanced as construction of the robots took longer than we planned, but once we got to programming, the students ate it all up!…well, not the cheese…obviously.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Hello again to everyone who attended the North and Northwest OLC Chapter conferences. Thanks for your interest. Here’s the Handout.
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
I’ll be presenting Tech Teens: Engage in the Digital Age TOMORROW at the OLC North Chapter conference in Independence. You too can use freeware, social media and cheap and easy technology to get teens in your doors and engaged.