Coding

Scratch Project

Click the Spacebar to begin. Click the clothing item to hear a pronunciation and if available to change the color. Click the Green Flag to reset.

App

Use in the Classroom

The lesson will take place during the French II clothing unit. The students will have to use Scratch to create a character to dress up while incorporating sound and sentences. They will then have to incorporate a paragraph into Scratch to describe what their character is wearing in French.

Using Scratch, the students will create a Fashion Game where they will have to dress a character.

I think that including coding and creating apps into my lessons is going to be helpful. Even though coding can be a challenging process, I think that it’s a wonderful opportunity to get my students to be creative. I love giving them new things and watching them take it and role with it to see what awesome things they come up with. It also taps into the multiple intelligences. You might have some students who are talented with coding and app creating and this gets them interested and motivated.

Application

This week’s assignment was a terrific opportunity to show some of the design principles for instructional multimedia. First, in the Scratch project, one principle that I used was the Spatial Contiguity Principle. by labeling the icons in the menu, the user knows exactly what each icon is for. Secondly, in the Scratch project I used the Voice Principle. When the user clicks on the item of clothing, they will hear my voice with the correct pronunciation.

Reflection

This week was more difficult and more time consuming than most of the other weeks but also one of the weeks where I felt I learned and grew the most. Mostly because my starting point of coding and app creating was at a 0.0. Although I took some computer programming classes in high school, I don’t feel that you can compare to what we did then and what today’s coding it. I did see some similarities in the Scratch program. I think that knowing how to create an app is very useful. With the amount of time that people are on their phones, putting information on an app can help reach your audience very efficiently. This can be something that can be beneficial for the students to have a back ground in to put on their resumes.