CPSR

2016-2017

Fall 2017 links connect directly to student blogs where students document their work and reflect upon their journey in this course.

Teacher Documentation: Course Blog (also embedded below)

Assignments are posted on the OnCampus portal, all WIS community members have access, and this is the primary organizational tool for our course.

Click below for student documentation on their Blogger blogs.

This semester we will all journey through the following units:

Computer Programming: Offline coding
Computer Programming: Logo
Computer Systems & Networking
Web Design with Academic Portfolios
Information Technology in a Global Society: A Exploration of Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence

First Year Students will engage with these additional units:

Computer Programming with Game Design (Scratch)
Introduction to programming with robotics

Second Year Students may engage with these additional units:

Computer Programming with robotics
Computer Programming with Game Design (Unity 3D)

2017 Fall CPSR Student Documentation & Academic Portfolio Websites

2017 Fall CPSR Course Blog

2017 Spring CPSR

In the Spring 2017 CPSR class students expressed an overwhelming interest in creating and publishing websites. As we talked about current day website design we went through the entire process of what would be needed to build and host their own websites. The students researched and chose their domain names, hosting options, and the myriad of tools available to them. We looked at many modern web building tools like content management systems (CMS), web-building tools like Wix or Weebly, and some students studied HTML and CSS. The students expressed an interest in both the design, or presentation of content, and in the tools or languages needed to control their presentation.

To meet both needs I chose to separate the organizational structure of a website from the languages used (circa 2017) to build functionality into a website. For our content we started with presenting ourselves in a web building project called "Academic Portfolio." In order to understand the flow of content and organization needed for their websites I chose to use the simple tool of the New Google Sites. (This website you are reading was built with the New Google Sites tool.)

In elegant design form and function are inextricably linked. The current iteration of website design (circa 2017) follows a Bauhaus design ethos- less is more. This user centered 'clean' and 'simple' design requires a strong organizational backbone, stunning visuals and seemingly seamless integration of many multimedia elements.

Two short films by CPSR Fall 2016 students about their robotics projects and modifications.

Final Lego EV3 Robot Movie Leo.mp4

Robotics 2016 - Max Ulrich.mp4

2017 Spring CPSR Student Documentation & Academic Portfolio Websites

Spring 2017 links connect directly to student blogs where students document their work and reflect upon their journey in this course.

Teacher Documentation: Course Blog

During the 2016-2017 school year WIS moved to a new course management system (CMS) called OnCampus. Assignments are posted on the OnCampus portal, all WIS community members have access, and this is the primary organizational tool for our course. The course overview for all the classes in Studio B2 is now a beautifully presented digital brochure created with Adobe Slate which can been seen here.

Click below for student documentation (on their Blogger blogs), and Academic Portfolios.

Click here to see the games designed by this year's first-year students, using Scratch.

Second year students* created games using the Unity3D game engine.

Bucknall

Cubeddu

Emblad

Galizia

Lanning*

Laursen

Matkovsky

Mitchell*

Muenzer

Norman*

Schnurr

Somay

Suri

Taylor

Zucchi*