What is the 21st Century Program? What's happening this month?
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This program supports children by providing academic enrichment opportunities during non-school hours for children, particularly students who attend high-poverty and low-performing schools. The program helps students meet state and local student standards in core academic subjects, such as reading and math; offers students a broad array of enrichment activities that can complement their regular academic programs; and offers literacy and other educational services to the families of participating children.
The program runs Tuesdays-Fridays 3:25-6:25 PM. Transportation to Millmont and Oakbrook is provided. For info call 484-857-7292 or the office at 610-371-5935.
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Friday, December 8, 2017
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Google Slides
Here's a tutorial on how to use Google Slides. You will need to log in to Google first. Your user name is your id-number @students.readingsd.org Example 123456@students.readingsd.org. Your password will be your date of birth with slashes. Ex 01/04/2005
Friday, June 30, 2017
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Phone Apps
The feature for the month is making your own phone app, really! Check out some videos here.
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Robotics
These tutorials are about having fun building and coding small Lego MindStorms EV3 robots, finding out how to command them to smile and speak, travel in straight and curved lines, and how to follow the edge of a line. It is a fun course aimed at "Absolute Beginners". The course is available here as a youtube playlist.
This mini-course includes about 2 hours of video lessons. How long it will take you to complete this course is hard to predict, but as a rough indication, we have used videos similar to these as the basis for about half of an 8-week, 2 hours per week after-school course for middle school classes and for Adult Education and Parent/Child classes. The course is structured as a “hands-on” “Learning-by-Doing” robotics course, with new building, programming and coding ideas introduced only when they are immediately needed by the robot. There is an absolute minimum of “talking-head” videos. You will need to have access to a Lego MindStorms EV3 set. The course is suitable for both the Lego EV3 Education and the Lego EV3 Home sets. The course shows you how to download a free EV3-G Editor from Lego. This Lego Editor is suitable for both Windows and Apple computers, but does not work for Linux, tablets or smart phones. However the course videos and ePub instructions can be played back on these devices, so that you can have the video directions available on a tablet or smartphone right alongside your Lego set as you go through this course. We have used the videos in this course during both individual and full-class lessons. The videos have also been used successfully by home study students. Have fun! Enjoy your robots!
This mini-course includes about 2 hours of video lessons. How long it will take you to complete this course is hard to predict, but as a rough indication, we have used videos similar to these as the basis for about half of an 8-week, 2 hours per week after-school course for middle school classes and for Adult Education and Parent/Child classes. The course is structured as a “hands-on” “Learning-by-Doing” robotics course, with new building, programming and coding ideas introduced only when they are immediately needed by the robot. There is an absolute minimum of “talking-head” videos. You will need to have access to a Lego MindStorms EV3 set. The course is suitable for both the Lego EV3 Education and the Lego EV3 Home sets. The course shows you how to download a free EV3-G Editor from Lego. This Lego Editor is suitable for both Windows and Apple computers, but does not work for Linux, tablets or smart phones. However the course videos and ePub instructions can be played back on these devices, so that you can have the video directions available on a tablet or smartphone right alongside your Lego set as you go through this course. We have used the videos in this course during both individual and full-class lessons. The videos have also been used successfully by home study students. Have fun! Enjoy your robots!
Thursday, February 2, 2017
January Newsletter 2017
We'd like to give a strong thank you to the students that worked with Ms. Ulrich and Mr. Vanderhorst to create the newsletter for the month of January. You can see it here.

Thursday, January 19, 2017
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