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 -