7 simple steps to take part in Europe Code Week with your classroom and, why not, with your whole school

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7 simple steps to engage your classroom
in Europe Code Week
http://codeweek.eu/resources/
Toolkit for Teachers
alessandro.bogliolo@uniurb.it

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1 Take the initiative and organize a Code Week event in your classroom
3 Set up a date
4 Choose the theme and the activity
2 Choose the right place
5 Add your event to the map of Europe Code Week events
6 Manage your event
7 Fill in the feedback form and get your certificate of recognition
Do even more…

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Take the initiative
Organize a Code Week event in your classroom
It is up to you to organize a Code Week event!
This is the most important contribution that you can give to
Europe Code Week!
Once the decision is taken, all other steps are smooth. In fact,
you will be able to tailor the event to your needs and to your
target group, exploiting the many examples and resources
available online.
For instance, during Code Week you can provide to your pupils a
hands-on coding experience, but you can also watch a video, invite
an expert, make a list of the many programmable objects that we
use every day, figure out what you could do with coding, or just
plan the coding activities for the rest of the school year. This will
be seen at step 4…
Code Week is entirely made by people like you!
The success of your event depends only on your motivation and
engagement.

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2 Choose the right place
If you have a computer room available use it, but if you feel that
this is complicated, go without it. You and your classroom are the
only essential elements for making a Code Week event. The room
is not.
It is possible to organize coding events without an Internet
connection and even without a computer. Hence, feel free to
choose the venue which is more comfortable and accessible to
your pupils.
Your own classroom is probably the best choice!
Coding can be done even in the woods with paper and pencil!

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3 Set up a date
Schedule your event soon!
Once you has scheduled your event, you can always change the
date, but without a tentative date your event does not exist!
Possibly choose a date between 15 and 23 of October (this is the
official Code Week), but if it’s really impossible for you to
organize the event in that period, feel free to choose another
day…
Possibly organize your event in school hours in order to get all
your pupils involved. After school activities are wonderful, but
they are more difficult to orgnize and they usually end-up
engaging just a few motivated kids.
Only school activities are really for everybody!

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Choose the theme and the activity
Feel free to invent your own method, but you don’t need to be
original. There are great formats and resources to be just
adopted and re-used. If you have coding in your curriculum, your
Code Week event could be your regular coding activity.
If you have never organized a coding activity, this page is for you.
You don’t need to be an expert. If coding is new for you, your
curiosity will motivate and engage your pupils and you will discover
with them how fun it could be.
Do you have an Internet connection?
Start from playful and intuitive online resources which provide
simple video tutorials:
L’Ora del codice, Scratch, ScratchJr
Do you have computers without Internet?
There are very good off-line tools:
Scratch offline
If you have no computer…
Invite someone to share his/her experience or just use paper:
Cody-Roby
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Add your event to the map of Europe Code Week
Be proud of adding your event to the map of Europe Code Week
together with all other events organized worldwide. Add it to the
map in your name.
Go to http://events.codeweek.eu/
Click ADD (http://events.codeweek.eu/add/)
Sign in with your account
Fill in and submit the event form
Title
Your name
Description
School level of the audience
Main themes
Venue
Date and time
(web site, optional)
Your e-mail address
(image, optional)
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6 Manage your event
If you have previous experience with coding events you probably
don’t need any advice.
If you have no coding experience take the part of your pupils and
learn with them and from them.
What really matters for the success of a Code Week event are
engagement, curiosity, and fun.
Don’t forget to count the number of participants and, if
authorized, take pictures and videos to be used for storytelling.
Making a video to tell your coding event can be an amusing
learning experience by itself, it could be of inspiration for other
people, and it will allow you to take part in the storytelling
challenge that will be launched right after Code Week!

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7 Fill in the feedback form
and receive your certificate of recognition
Right after Code Week you will get an automated message in
your mail box
The message will provide a link to a feedback form where to
report the number of participants to your event
Upon submission of the feedback form, a certificate of
recognition will be generated for you
Print it out
and share the
satisfaction of
having contributed to
Europe Code Week 2016!

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Do even more: CodeWeek4all
Involve the whole school to organize events for all your students
Use the online form to decalre the overall number of students
enrolled in your School and get a unique code for the School
Insert the unique code in the description of all the events
organized in your school, as they appear in the map
Invite all the teachers to organize events in their classrooms
using the same code
At the end of Code Week, if the total number of participants to
all the events organized in the School is greater or equal than
50% of the students enrolled, a certificate of excellence in
coding literacy will be awarded to the School by the European
Commission
http://codeweek.eu/codeweek4all/

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Do even more: Ode to Code video contest
An open-source tune, called «Ode to Code», has been composed
to celebrate coding. The music produces unexpected effects
wherever it is heard…
If all Code Week Ambassadors were able to dance the «Ode to
code» in Brussels, your classroom will for sure do it better…
Have fun, make a video, and share your video with #odetocode
hashtag!
http://codeweek.eu/odetocode/

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Do even more: Take a MOOC for teachers
European Schoolnet provides a Massive Online Open Course for
teachers on «Developing Digital Skills in your Classroom».
Enroll now for free!
http://www.europeanschoolnetacademy.eu/

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Links
Main web site http://codeweek.eu/
Events map http://events.codeweek.eu/
News http://blog.codeweek.eu/
Ambassadors http://events.codeweek.eu/ambassadors/
Resources http://codeweek.eu/resources/
CodeWeek4all Challenge http://codeweek.eu/codeweek4all/
Ode to code http://codeweek.eu/odetocode/
Twitter: @CodeWeekEU #CodeEU
Facebook: codeEU

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1 Take the initiative and organize a Code Week event in your classroom
It is up to you and this is the best contribution you can provide to Europe Code Week.
The success of the event depends only on your motivation and engagement.
3 Pick up a date and schedule the event
Try to pick up a date between 10 and 18 of October.
If possible, organize the event in school hours: it’s easier and it involves all the pupils.
4 Choose the theme and the activity
Feel free to invent your own method, but you don’t need to be original. There are
many great resources that you can re-use. You don’t need to be an expert.
If coding is new for, your curiosity will motivate your pupils.
2 Choose the right place
If you have a computer room available use it, but if you feel that it’is complicated,
go without it. What really matters are people, not rooms!
5 Add your event to the map of Code Week
Name your event and add it to the map of Code Week events.
Raise curiosity and expectation. Try to involve the whole school.
6 Manage your event
If you have no coding experience take the part of your pupils and learn with and from them.
Don’t forget to count the number of participants and, if authorized, take pictures and videos
to be used for storytelling.
7 Fill in the feedback form and get your certificate of recognition
Right after Code Week you will be asked to report on the number of participants.
A certificate of recognition will be automatically generated for you.
Guidelines for teachers http://codeweek.eu/resources