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Self-Paced Coding Lessons with Grasshopper

Code with Grasshopper

Self-Paced Coding Lessons with Grasshopper

Code with Grasshopper

Learn to Code with Grasshopper

New to coding? Not sure where to start? The Grasshopper app, available on Apple’s App Store and on Google Play, teaches JavaScript through self-paced lessons and practice.

Lessons

The app guides you through progressive lessons that build on one another and slowly introduce different tools and functions in JavaScript. As you work your way through, the lessons introduce new functions while reviewing the content already covered for a spiraling effect that keeps the content fresh and helps you remember previous lessons.

Learn to Code with Grasshopper

Practice

In addition to the lessons, there are many opportunities for practice. The practice sessions include topics you have already covered in the lessons so you can continue working on individual skills and/or refresh your memory if it’s been a while since you completed the lesson. Both the lessons and the practice sessions can be repeated any time. The menu pictured below shows the lesson categories (lessons are grouped as units) and practice can be found below the unit titles.

Practice Mode and Lessons

Why JavaScript

JavaScript is the most used coding language and many of its commands are the same or similar in other coding languages. By starting with JavaScript, you can learn both basic and advanced coding and it will be easy to learn another coding language once you know JavaScript. Happy coding!

5 Easy Steps for Teaching with Digital Tools

Introducing digital tools into your teaching can seem challenging at first. There are many tools out there, and it might feel like there’s a lot to learn. But with easy steps for teaching with digital tools, you can start simply and gradually. There’s no need to dive in all at once – just take it one step at a time. Taking easy steps for teaching with digital tools starts with trying something!

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Students Prepare to Present

Help Your Students Prepare to Present

Maximize student success in presentations with ‘Speaker Notes by AliceKeeler,’ the ideal Google Slides add-on. Enhance how students prepare to present with easy transfer of speaker notes to Google Docs, promoting effective communication skills. Dive into the world of engaging, technology-aided presentations and empower students to shine in their academic endeavors. Discover the key to transforming student presentations into interactive, skill-building experiences.

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Infographic 7 Basic Steps for a Google Form

New to using Google Forms? This tool is essential for teachers to not only save time but to be adaptive to student needs. Use Forms to survey students, play games, personalize instruction, and assessment. This infographic on the 7 basic steps for a Google Form will help you get started.

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Online Workshop: Get Your Add-on Published

How can you make Google Workspace (Docs/Sheets/Slides) even better? You can create custom Add-ons with Google Apps Script. Wondering How to Get Your Google Workspace Add-on Published? Join Alice Keeler, Google Developer Expert, to learn the steps to get your Add-on officially published.

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