COACH SIMPSON'S CLASS

About Me

My name is Kyle Simpson and I teach business education classes at Northside Middle School. The two classes I will be teaching this year are Fundamentals of Computing (A) 7th grade and Fundamentals of Computing (B) 8th grade. I am originally from Greenwood, SC. I graduated from Greenwood High School and Lander University. This year will be my 5th year teaching in Greenwood School District 50. I also coach football and baseball at Greenwood High School.

About the Course

• Code.org is a program that emphasizes discovery in computer science

• Computer science is everywhere

• Create games, write code, and learn how to solve problems using computers

• We also will work on things such as:

  • • Typing

    • Google/Microsoft applications

    • Other activities involving computers

Resources (These are the main things we will be using)

• Google Classroom (Students need to join their period's google classroom. This will be the main platform we use.)

• Google Applications (google slides, sheets, docs)

• Code.org

• Google Meets (this is the video platform I will use to stream) A link to this will be posted to classroom on the days which it will be used. Please bear with me as this is a learning curve for everyone.