{"id":1128,"date":"2020-05-20T07:45:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T14:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2020-08-03T09:05:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T16:05:59","slug":"a1-mobile-coding-and-beyond-exploring-sphero-edu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/05\/20\/a1-mobile-coding-and-beyond-exploring-sphero-edu\/","title":{"rendered":"A1-Mobile Coding and Beyond: Exploring Sphero EDU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/virtual.educ.ubc.ca\/wp\/etec565m\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1512\/files\/sites\/1512\/2018\/06\/coding-7-339x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47713\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original post b<a href=\"https:\/\/virtual.educ.ubc.ca\/wp\/etec523\/2018\/06\/21\/a1-mobile-coding-and-beyond-exploring-sphero-edu\/\">y Dan Edwards on June 21, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello Everyone. For Assignment #1, I have investigated how coding activities have great potential for mobile technologies.\u00a0 I have looked at coding and the mobile app Sphero EDU.\u00a0 For this activity, I decided to take a different approach to making my presentation.\u00a0 Throughout my MET journey, I have created many videos and wanted to try something new for my last course. \u00a0For A1, I have completed my presentation using Book Creator, an online ebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can access it from the following link: <a href=\"https:\/\/read.bookcreator.com\/3imqLrtnXqQ7T9n9ihbqP2FzUej2\/T5YCQJTiQCqBk6WQhsXJ9A\">https:\/\/read.bookcreator.com\/3imqLrtnXqQ7T9n9ihbqP2FzUej2\/T5YCQJTiQCqBk6WQhsXJ9A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feel free to access it on your laptop or mobile device. For best quality viewing, please change the settings to\u00a0view on one page\u00a0and using\u00a0full screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, I enjoyed exploring this topic. I have found that coding activities can be a great way to engage all of my students in the classroom.\u00a0 Our school just purchased the Sphero SPRK+ and Sphero Mini balls this year and it has been amazing seeing how engaged students are in exploring programming activities.\u00a0 In fact, even those students who do not typically gravitate towards technology devices have enjoyed engaging in learning activities.\u00a0 Students have participated in designing mazes for their robots and are currently building battle bots to challenge their peers.\u00a0 I think that mobile apps like Sphero EDU (and the accompanying robotics) can be a great way to develop inquiry, critical thinking, problem-solving and collaborative skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I look forward to hearing your feedback!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-book-creator\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Mobile Coding and Beyond: Exploring Sphero EDU\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/read.bookcreator.com\/3imqLrtnXqQ7T9n9ihbqP2FzUej2\/T5YCQJTiQCqBk6WQhsXJ9A#?secret=wiS0adhRRZ\" data-secret=\"wiS0adhRRZ\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original post by Dan Edwards on June 21, 2018 Hello Everyone. For Assignment #1, I have investigated how coding activities have great potential for mobile&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/05\/20\/a1-mobile-coding-and-beyond-exploring-sphero-edu\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A1-Mobile Coding and Beyond: Exploring Sphero EDU<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":65096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobiletechnologies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1131,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}