A free 4-week online workshop for teachers who are just beginning to include computing in their curricula is being offered by the College of St. Scholastica supported through Google’s CS4HS initiative.

The workshop is focused on using Android App Inventor, which is free software used through your browser to create cell phone apps by snapping together blocks of code (see demo at http://youtu.be/8ADwPLSFeY8).

Creating Apps is an engaging and fun way to interest middle school, high school and college students in computing.  The workshop will begin on June 30th with a Getting Started unit on how to use the course tools and be followed by 4 weekly units on integrating App Inventor into curricula, finishing the last week of July.

The workshop goals are to:

• provide computing education professional development to educators;
• create a network of teachers interested in computing education;
• share best practices for computing in 5-12th grades, including inclusive pedagogy for underrepresented groups; and,
• empower educators to advocate for computing education in their community.

Participants completing the workshop will earn continuing education credits and those completing a follow-up project with students have the option of earning low-cost graduate credits.

If you are interested, please see more details and register online at css.edu/cs4hs.