Terry Alexander worked as a software engineer at Intel Corporation for ten years until she made the switch to computer science education. She has been an instructor at Saturday Academy for many years, teaching programming, robotics, and physics classes including classes in computer game design.
Game Design with Unity3D & Agile Development
Game Design with Unity3D & Agile Development
Create a game using the Unity framework in this hands-on workshop. We will practice Agile Development to set goals and track our progress. We will base this course on Unity’s free Educator Toolkit. All work will be done on Windows PC’s using free software. We will supply computers and software. Bring your enthusiasm and your […]
Getting Started with Digital Literacy
Are you interested in bringing digital learning into your classroom? This workshop is especially for teachers who are learning along with their students. We will explore different ways to integrate coding and other digital skills into your existing lessons across several disciplines as well as giving you some new lesson plans to take back to your students. We will give you sample lesson plans and show how they relate to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
Digital Thinking: Incorporating Math & Science Standards
Learning practices in technology fields have a large overlap with learning practices from the math and science classroom. In this class we will will look at the ways that science, engineering, and math practices are compatible and how to enhance your lessons to support NGSS and Common Core Standards while preparing students to learn and […]
Java Programming in Minecraft
This course uses the popular game, Minecraft, as a inspirational platform for game design programming. The class will use Java in the Eclipse IDE* to learn how to program plugins that add creative changes to the Minecraft Game through a programming interface called Bukkit.