Now out for the 2015-16 school year: Beginners HTML (covers HTML5) Beginners CSS Beginners JavaScript Beginners PHP Course highlights: Shorter video lessons- average 6 minutes each. 900 quiz questions- code challenges and multiple choice. 40 assignments bound to chapters. Theme-based courses. Gentle introduction to concepts, reinforced with repetition. Samples of the new courses are live…
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For 2016, we’ve expanded StudioWeb’s automatic grading to include: Grades by course Grades by chapter Grades by lesson … All the detail you need to manage the classroom. This is in addition to our trending grade that keeps a running total of student performance. The grades are generated from tracking student interaction with the course…
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The current version of StudioWeb works fine with iPads for the following tasks: Watching video lessons Doing multiple choice and true/false quiz questions Teachers accessing student and classroom data …That’s pretty much everything! Except… The challenge with code challenges: The only area where StudioWeb and iPads don’t play great is with code challenges. The default…
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UPDATE: In 2016, if I had to choose only one programming language to teach, it would be JavaScript. That said, PHP is still a great option, but I would teach it after JavaScript. I recently wrote about why JavaScript is now my first choice. Back to the original article: These days, Python and Ruby are…
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Hi! I am happy to announce that StudioWeb is now being used as part of STEM education programs in the northeastern US. StudioWeb (that’s us!) continues to work with K12, community colleges, cultural centers and vocational schools to provide an easy-to-understand curriculum in modern web design and programming. Our courses are effective because experienced teachers…
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Between my ten years of teaching web development, and feedback from teachers using StudioWeb over the last year, I have put together this list of teaching tips that you might find useful in your classroom. Start with an easy language:
Don’t use hard to understand languages like Java, C#, C++ to teach beginners programming! Stick…
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