
Free PD Webinar: Welcome to Tynker (60 min.)
- Understand how Tynker brings coding and creativity to any classroom
- Understand how programming can be integrated into any subject area.
- Understand how to personalize student content and simplify CS teaching for educators.
- Understand our lesson progressions and the scope of content for learners K-12
Audience: Educators and Education Leaders.
Offered: Mondays (various times)
Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: None
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Free PD Webinar: Getting Started with Tynker (60 min.)
- Navigate and get started in the Tynker platform
- Assign personalized coding lessons for every student.
- Use customized lessons for any subject with Tynker STEM lessons.
- Build and create customized coding lessons for your content area with the Tynker workshop
Audience: Educators and Education Leaders.
Offered: Tuesdays (various times)
Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: Welcome to Tynker
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Free PD Webinar: Introduction to Tynker Blocks (60 min.)
- Understand how Tynker Blocks give every student the opportunity to learn coding no matter what grade level they are in.
- Understand basic coding terminology and functions such as sequencing, syntax, events, and motion.
- Build your Tynker Block Backpack.
- Develop a Tynker Block coding toolkit.
Audience: Educators.
Offered: Wednesdays (various times)
Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: Welcome to Tynker, Getting Started With Tynker
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Free PD Webinar: Introduction to Python (60 min.)
- Understand the use of coding languages and why Python is a great starting place for beginners.
- Understand basic coding terminology and functions such as sequencing, syntax, functions, and objects.
- Get started by converting Tynker Blocks to Python code.
- Develop a Python coding toolkit.
Audience: Educators.
Offered: Wednesdays (various times)
Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: Welcome to Tynker, Getting Started With Tynker
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Free Coaching: Office Hours (10 min.)
- Enhancing student engagement with coding or
- Programming concepts needing clarification or
- Issues encountered in Tynker or
- Any other Tynker question we could help answer!
Only for: All Tynker Educators
Offered: Tuesdays
Level: Any
Prerequisites: None
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Get Ready for the Hour of Code with Tynker!
- Easily manage your classes for all of your Hour of Code Activities
- Inspire your students with activities based on UN Sustainable Development Goals and from NASA, and over 30 more
- Reward your students with Tynker certificates and badges
- Extend the Hour of Code excitement to the entire school year
Audience: Educators.
Offered: Wednesdays (various times)
Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: None
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Free PLN Webinar: Get Started with the Lunar Gateway Coding Challenge (40 min.)
Tynker continues its collaboration with NASA for the second Moon 2 Mars project based on NASA space missions — the Tell Your Lunar Gateway Story coding challenge! Just in time for World Space Week, this challenge asks students to imagine and share what life aboard the Lunar Gateway may look like. As part of NASA’s plan to return humans to the moon, Artemis astronauts will orbit the moon on the Lunar Gateway in the near future as they conduct research and prepare for lunar surface exploration. Winners of this coding challenge will be selected by Tynker and NASA. They will have the opportunity to invite a NASA expert to speak with their class or school via video call! Open to students everywhere.
With this professional learning opportunity, you’ll learn how to:
- Prepare your students for this FREE NASA coding challenge
- Preview both the Tynker Blocks (K-5) and Javascript (6-8) project pages
- Submit completed projects for the challenge
Audience: Educators and STEM Integrators (US and International)
Offered: Limited times, September and October 2019
Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: None
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Free PLN Webinar: Building Community with Flipgrid & Tynker (40 min.)
- Get access to 3 Tynker courses and dozens of projects, all for free.
- Experience how Tynker’s Flipgrid Disco Library topics integrate into their lessons.
- Connect with educators from all over the world.
Only for: Educators and STEM Integrators
Offered: Limited times in Fall 2019
Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: None
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Free PLN Webinar: Exploring the NEW Tynker Workshop (20 min.)
- To bring in code from any existing project, and
- To customize the look of your Workshop, and how
- More space and bigger blocks make things more clearly defined, and
- The Undo button and simplified controls make creativity even easier, and
- Faster load times improve the student experience
Only for: Educators
Offered: Wednesdays (various times)
Level: Any
Prerequisites: None
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