We also built our oral language skills and presentation techniques by focusing on our tone, volume, pace and gestures when speaking to a large group. We all have different strengths – some of us maintain eye contact with our audience but we speak too quickly. Others have great expression and volume but don’t include eye contact. We are going to set personal goals on how we can improve our presentation skills so that we can be even better next time.
December 5-11 is Computer Science Education Week so we joined other classes around the world in the #HourofCode. The Hour of Code is a basic introduction to computer science. It includes an hour-long, self-guided game tutorial designed to make coding easy and fun. Right from the start students were focused on the design of their game. Although there are challenges when writing code - an incorrect line of code could easily make a character turn the wrong way or move backwards instead of forward – it was great to see students persevere and find solutions.