Attendance

As a de Portola teacher, I have been asked to take role for the weeks we have been away from campus.  If you contacted me in any way since March 13th, you will be given credit for being at school the entire time.  However, we are still missing some students that I have not been able to get hold of.  If you have contact with the following students, please tell them to check out the CoderZ post from last week, or even shoot me an email at cjohnson10@sandi.net - remember grading starts up again on Monday 4/27.  

From Period 1 - Meshack, or Jorge
From Period 2 - Lian, Marcos, Micah, Roselia or Jordan
From Period 3 - MJ, Tarran, Brianna, or Dillon
From Period 5/6 - Caua, or Lucas
From Period 7 - Ben

I currently have 2 students logged in as "anonymous" meaning that they did not follow the directions below, but also that I don't know who to give points to. If you see a zero in PowerSchool and you have done levels, it might be you.

CoderZ

Welcome back - We are up to 133 out of 153 students signed in to CoderZ. They wrote to me to tell me that out of the 5000 schools that signed up across the U.S., we are in the top 25. Please keep up the great work.

If you have contact information for your friends from class, reach out to them and see how they are doing. Not just on CoderZ, but life itself. Use the power of social media for good even when evil seems like more fun.

It is not too late to check CANVAS and pull up your grade on old work. Late work can be turned in until June 3rd.


If you get stuck, do not hesitate to please let me know at cjohnson10@sandi.net.

Step 0 - if you are not logged into your school account to use Google Chrome, please log out of your parent's gmail account you are in and sign into your ID#@stu.sandi.net account. If not, it will log you in as your parents and it confuses me when I go to give out points.

Step 1 - (only the first time you go to play) Go to play.gocoderz.com and select “Join a Class” to join the class, not log in. The code for Mr. J’s class is slimyfootball - all lowercase, all one word - it was not my choice, it was randomly generated - although one of my daughter’s favorite Sesame Street characters is Slimy the worm and she would think that him playing football was hilarious. 

Step 2 - (Every time after the first time you go to play) Make sure you are logged in to Chrome using your ID#@stu.sandi.net as your email. Then just use the Sign in with Google option to sign in - please do not click on "Log in", it might give you strange error messages.

Step 3 - Once logged in, you will have 4 sets of projects to choose from.  Please start at Novice despite some of you having more advanced programming skills.  The activities will guide you through the use of Blockly to code an EV3 robot through a series of challenges that get more and more difficult as you go.

Starting on the 27th, I will be assigning 2 missions a week. Please get out ahead of this and start it now. If you have any questions please feel free to email me at cjohnson10@sandi.net

For those that can't get back into CoderZ after that1st time:

For those that read this far, please use social media to help out your friends and classmates. This does not have to be done alone, but everyone must complete the levels on their own account to earn credit. Challenge a friend to see who can do the most levels - other than Parker, you are not going to be able to beat Parker - he was ahead of me until yesterday - it took me 6 hours to catch up and pass him. Great work Parker!

Stay safe

this is the level I am working on this week -

Advisory

Hey everyone - even if you do not have me for advisory - Mrs. Jaramillo would like everyone to still be checking out her principal's message every week.  It is the first link on the right of this screen.  Please stay informed - watch it for yourself

If you are in my advisory class - please ignore my Canvas announcements that make it look like I am teaching math.  With my tech skills, I am trying to help out Mrs. Hoff and Mr. Labrador get Canvas up and running and the only free space I had was in advisory.  - Sorry

Welcome Back -

Welcome back - We are up to 120 out of 153 students signed in. If you have contact information for your friends from class, reach out to them and see how they are doing. If you have friends that do not have Internet access, the district is handing out devices for de Portola on April 22, 2020 between 9:00-12:30pm at Scripps Ranch HS. If you are not able to get to Scripps Ranch and need a device, please contact Mrs. Jaramillo at jjaramillo@sandi.net and arrangements may be made to have it delivered to you.

One person has signed into CoderZ that does not like points. They signed up as "Anonymous" - if I don't know who you are, I don't know who to give the credit to.

If you get stuck, do not hesitate to please let me know at cjohnson10@sandi.net.

It is not too late to check CANVAS and pull up your grade on old work.

For those that had not already started, I am going to switch everyone over to Lego EV3 - Amazon has a great version of it for us to use - play.gocoderz.com if you are in my class, please click join class, then use the code "slimyfootball" to join my class and enter your information so that I can give you credit.  If you are not in my class, you will need to get a code from your teacher, or go to:

https://gocoderz.com/amazon-future-engineer/?utm_source=Email_Campaign&utm_medium=Amazon&utm_campaign=2020

and follow the links you find there to explore on your own.

Below will be the instructions on how to use it:

Step 0 - if you are not logged into your school account to use Google Chrome, please log out of your parent's gmail account you are in and sign into your ID#@stu.sandi.net account. If not, it will log you in as your parents and it confuses me when I go to give out points.

Step 1 - Go to play.gocoderz.com and select “Join a Class” to join the class, not log in. The code for Mr. J’s class is slimyfootball - all lowercase, all one word - it was not my choice, it was randomly generated - although one of my daughter’s favorite Sesame Street characters is Slimy the worm and she would think that him playing football was hilarious. 

Step 2 - Use the Sign in with Google option to sign in using your ID#@stu.sandi.net as your email and your password that you use to log into computers at school as your password. 

Step 3 - Once logged in, you will have 3 sets of projects to choose from.  Please start at Novice despite some of you having more advanced programming skills.  The activities will guide you through the use of Blockly to code an EV3 robot through a series of challenges that get more and more difficult as you go.

At this stage, we are just trying to get everyone logged in and working you can either use smart blocks or code using Java, it is up to you. Starting on the 27th, I will be assigning 4 missions a week. Please get out ahead of this and start it now. If you have any questions please feel free to email me at cjohnson10@sandi.net

For those that can't get back into CoderZ

For those that read this far, please use social media to help out your friends and classmates. This does not have to be done alone, but everyone must complete the levels on their own account to earn credit. Challenge a friend to see who can do the most levels - other than Parker, you are not going to be able to beat Parker - he was ahead of me until yesterday - it took me 6 hours to catch up and pass him. Great work Parker!

Stay safe