Week 6 Update

This week has gone pretty well. I've wrapped up week 1 of the curriculum. There are a few final touches I'll be adding, but I'm feeling good about the progress and feel that it's coming together well. I am a bit nervous about time. I'm going to really have to speed up creating week 2. I've really taken a lot of time on week 1 though because I want the curriculum to be done well and something that teachers will really use. However, I also want enough time to create my website and make it good. So, my struggle right now is knowing how much time to prepare for creating the website. I'm going to make a new timeline with the new goals that Jen and I discussed in our first meeting to help with time management.

Week 5 Update

Week 1 of the curriculum is in the final stages of being complete. This has taken me a lot longer than I realized it would. I really want the curriculum to be fun and engaging for the students and easy to facilitate for teachers, therefore it's taken a lot of thought on activities and lesson set up. I will be finished with Week 1 this week and contacting teachers to see if they'll test out the week with their classes and give me feedback. I'll also be starting week 2 this week and work some on the website. It's going slow, but I feel like I'll be able to complete the project in time.

Week 4 Update

This week I've focused a lot on building the WP theme for my project. I've made it through a lot of the course on Lynda.com, but I'm still not through it yet.
I've also been working on the first week of curriculum still. This has been slow going because I keep changing things up and questioning myself on what would be fun for students, but still teaching the code in a relevant way. It's getting there though. I'm making it a goal to have the first week done this week so I can get some user testing done on it.
I also built a very basic website to show what students will be learning in the course. I build it on CodePen.io so students can see an exact replica of the project.