Our Last Day: Makey Makey Time and Blog Addresses

Today is our last day of Digic@mp!  We have been working on using Makey Makey devices to play music and use as a game control.  We used bananas, carrots, and other stuff to play music! We used playdough to create large buttons to tap on to play a PacMan game.  We made sure we posted videos and pictures of what we did, and Mr. McAdams, a reporter from the EastTex Advocate, came to take pictures and interview students!

Dancing Robots

On Wednesday we experimented with using Blockly, a coding app, to code Dash robots to play the xylophone.  Then we created a dance routine with our Dash robot and performed.  We also built our presentations showing our field trip to the Health Museum, published them to the web, and then used html code to put them on our blogs!

Trip to Houston

Our group at the Houston Health Museum

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Digic@mp 2018 Begins Today!

I just have a few more days in Coldspring-Oakhurst CISD, so I want to make sure the 5th annual Digic@mp is in the memory book/blog.  It's a tech camp for students finishing 3rd-5th grade.  Our theme this week is Music and Sound.  So...today's first job was to form groups and create musical instruments! I took some pictures and then shared with students from my Google Drive.  The students created blogs, and their first post included pictures from creating the instruments.  I love giving students the tools to create!  It got really quiet at times in the hallway because they were working so hard at their tasks.  Check out a few below!

Matchbox Guitar!

Following directions to make a Matchbox Guitar can be difficult!

Finishing up painting a Shoebox Banjo! 

Dinasaur Call

We love painting and cutting and gluing!

Shoebox Banjo!