{"id":7019,"date":"2016-09-07T17:55:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T00:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/blog\/?p=7019"},"modified":"2023-10-26T23:36:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T06:36:50","slug":"a-what-i-did-this-summer-project-for-21st-century-learners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/blog\/a-what-i-did-this-summer-project-for-21st-century-learners\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;What I Did This Summer&#8221; Project for 21st Century Learners"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A &#8220;What I Did This Summer&#8221; Project for 21st Century Learners<\/h2>\n<p>This back-to-school season, your students can recap their summer vacations using a fun new creative medium: coding!<\/p>\n<p>With this project, your students will follow step-by-step instructions to create their own interactive slideshows about what they did this summer. They&#8217;ll come up with several scenes that represent their summers, find or draw backgrounds to represent those locations, design a custom narrator character, and put it all together using code to come up with a fun project they can share with the class.<\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"\/ide\/embedded?p=57d08cbcaf9231ad7d8b45b9&#038;controls=yes&#038;autostart=no\" height=\"350\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"sf-button large accent standard \" href=\"https:\/\/www.tynker.com\/ide\/?p=57d0947eaf9231ad7d8b45ca\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"text\">Start Tutorial<\/span><\/a>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Teachers<\/strong>, to assign this project to your class:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to your Tynker account.<\/li>\n<li>Click on the \u201cStart Tutorial\u201d button above to open the project.<\/li>\n<li>Save the project to your account.<\/li>\n<li>Go to your \u201cMy Projects\u201d section.<\/li>\n<li>Hover over the project you want to assign and click the \u201cAssign+\u201d button.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>After your class has finished, don\u2019t forget to create a class showcase of all your students\u2019\u00a0projects to\u00a0share\u00a0with parents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parents<\/strong>, to give this project to your child:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Have your child log in to his\/her account.<\/li>\n<li>Click on the \u201cStart Tutorial\u201d button above to open the project.<\/li>\n<li>Save the project.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We love to see what kids are making! Share your back-to-school\u00a0projects on Twitter or\u00a0Facebook and tag us <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gotynker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@goTynker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;What I Did This Summer&#8221; Project for 21st Century Learners This back-to-school season, your students can recap their summer vacations using a fun new creative medium: coding! With this project, your students will follow step-by-step instructions to create their own interactive slideshows about what they did this summer. 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