2011_04_16_MEETING

PRESENTATIONS: SCRATCH -> [|files.me.com/javageek/vnc8so] (10MB PDF) Greenfoot -> to be provided

WHAT: April 2011 Johnson County Community College Computer Club

WHEN: Saturday, April 16th, 2011, 9:30am-11:30am

WHERE: Johnson County Community College Regnier Center Room 361 Overland Park, KS 66210-1299

HOW / AGENDA: Overview Session – Regnier Center (RC) 361 (~ 9:30am – 9:40am) Breakout sessions (~9:45am – 11am) Wrap-up Session (~11:10am – 11:30am)
 * Sign in
 * Briefly discuss agenda for day and any initial questions
 * Sorry, no food and drinks this time , but there are vending machines by the room.
 * Scratch Programming (RC 361)
 * No prior programming knowledge is needed
 * Participants will explore the basics of Scratch and investigate features of game development. Pending time, topics will include web resources, sprite / script basics, movement, sound, scripted movement, control flow, starting / stopping, color / graphics effects, key event handling, multiple sprites, exploration, game movement, screen wrap around, collision detection, projectiles, and momentum.
 * Greenfoot Programming (RC 380)
 * Prior programming knowledge will be very helpful
 * Participants will be introduced to Greenfoot resources and then explore many of the essential features of Greenfoot as a robot game is developed. Participants will also experience the ease in which many programming topics can be covered in Greenfoot.
 * Discuss planning for the future (in particular next fall)
 * Summer session discussion
 * Evaluations

Workshop leaders - Daniel Green, Senior Systems Engineer Oracle Corporation - Steve Hansen, Professor of Computer Science Johnson County Community College - Mark Van Gorp, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Johnson County Community College

ABOUT COMPUTER CLUB: Computer Club is a monthly workshop for educators and students. Our goal is to let participants experience and create projects that involve motion, animation, sound and media in ways that they can control and script. We use freely available content creation tools such as Scratch from MIT, Greenfoot from Kent University, Alice from CMU and other tools to help participants create their own 2d and 3d games, movies and projects. No experience with technology is necessary. Computer Club focuses on helping educators and students understand and build interactive software projects that can tell stories, challenge users with games and provide an opportunity for participants to creatively use technology. Our goal is to encourage participants to create engaging projects, rather than memorizing software application menus, so that participants can use technology as an enabling tool rather than a passive media consumption platform. Computer Club is free to educators and students. Participants are encouraged to bring a USB memory stick to save their projects.