When I first started running activities and promoting Hour of Code from the library a few years ago, I started with the website. Then as more teachers started using the Hour of Code site, I started finding ways to tie in hands on makerspace items and tech for Hour of Code activities and making. But this year, I couldn't do that. Sanitizing maker stuff and keeping it safe during COVID-19 has been pretty much impossible for me, and we just recently went virtual again.
After seeing Shannon McClintock Miller's coding choice boards while researching virtual makerspaces and brainstorming with other awesome librarians in my district, I decided to make my own Hour of Code choice board. The backgrounds/shelves are from Canva. (Remember, teachers get a free pro account.) I used the Chrome Bitmoji extension for the Yay Coding one. Then I took screenshots of what I was linking items to. Once it was finished, I emailed it out to my STEM teachers, and I also let them know about the CodeBytes sessions happening this week. Then I embedded it in my Canvas (our learning management system) and put out an announcement about it in Canvas this morning to let students know it's there. Once we get to winter break, I'll take down the link from the home page, but I'll move it into the virtual makerspace area I'm trying to start building up (moving slowly at the moment due to other urgent tasks), so students can revisit it if they wish. Feel free to download it and edit to upload your own Bitmoji. Please give me credit if you do use it. Thanks!
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