[DC LoCo] Last minute: Coder Dojo TOMORROW

Kevin Cole dc.loco at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 20:59:57 UTC 2013


So... I'm planning to be there. Anyone else on board?

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From: Jason Blum <jason.blum at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:42 AM
Subject: [CoderDojoDC] Fwd: Message to attendees of CoderDojoDC #1
To: coderdojodc at googlegroups.com

Forgive me for abusing this mailing list so much, but I know there are some
folks registered not on this list and vice-versa.

Just wanted to share the reminder below and ask whether anyone can bring
extra grounded extension cords and power strips.  I have four of each, but
not sure how much juice folks are going to need.

The room seats 100, so we certainly have space for more kids.  Problem is
the room has no divider, so we can't really splinter off into different
groups this time around.  I hope folks will make some time towards the end
tomorrow to brainstorm future meetings, formats, tools, objectives, etc.

Oh also any thoughts here or on the side to me on
http://is.gd/CoderDojoDC1notes are appreciated!

-J

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Date: Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:42 PM
Subject: Message to attendees of CoderDojoDC #1
To: jason.blum at gmail.com


      *A Message from CoderDojoDC:

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Hello!

Thanks for registering for the first meeting of
http://CoderDojoDC.com<http://coderdojodc.com/>, this
Saturday January 5 at 10 AM at the Silver Spring Civic Building - We're two
seats away from being sold out!

We have the room from 9 AM, but will be using the first hour to set up and
sign folks in.  All are welcome to come early to help set up and refine the
agenda, or stay late to help tear down (we have to be out by 1.)


We'll keep a Google Doc for each meeting's agenda and notes:
http://is.gd/CoderDojoDC1notes
(Please share any interesting notes, links or other resources as they come
up, but keep in mind this document is public.)


I think it'd be fun to set aside some "show-and-tell" time for every
meeting.  I am going to bring in a "binary clock" to talk about for a
minute or two.

Please let me know if you'd like to speak a minute or two about something
nerdy: a cool website, something you or your child has coded or built, etc.
 I'd like to get the kids to take over this segment in future meetings.


Also thanks to everyone who filled out the survey in advance of our first
meeting
http://is.gd/CoderDojoDC1poll

I'll share the results Saturday - but basically, as I feared, there's a
pretty big range of experiences and expectations.  So I think our first
meeting will be have to be mostly on the common denominator: HTML.  But I
hope folks will circulate and sit with students to help them try out more
advanced tasks, like embedding a video or even doing something with a
JavaScript library or more.  We'll just have to work together to find a
balance between engaging a broad range of skill levels, while not
disrupting a broader shared experience!

I hope we can all plan on chatting a bit before leaving, say, before noon,
about future Dojo's and possibly enlisting some of us to prepare and teach
on specific topics.

Meantime, please share your thoughts on the mailing list and Saturday, and
please encourage your kids to do the same!


Can't wait to meet everyone - this is going to be so cool!


-Jason




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