Genius Hour Ideas

08/03/2018 15:32

Although Genius Hour should be your own ideas of what you want to learn, there have been a number of students that have shown an interest in some areas where there is a learning web site that they use.  Here are some of the areas they have shared:

  • Codecademy is a website that teaches you Programming languages like jQuery, Javascript, PHP, Python, Ruby, and CSS for web designing.
  • Khan Academy - More computer programming languages to learn like: JS, HTML/CSS, SQL
  • Photoshop tutorials
  • or another Photoshop tutorial
  • Illustrator tutorials
  • Designing a website using InDesign
  • CSS and building a website through W3Schools. (has many more programming languages)
  • Google Maps API system
  • HTML basics - free lessons online
  • More extensive HTML (with Javascript, CSS, etc)
  • App development program and lessons from Google.
  • Courses from Google itself
  • Don't fear the Internet
  • Netmagazine.com and Smashing Magazine has lessons aimed at intermediate ot advance end of web design spectrum.
  • WP Tuts has WordPress tutorials to make a great website blog that can sell.
  • PSP Tuts has photoshop tutorials (some need a subscription to get to).
  • CSS tricks for those of you in web designing.
  • Want to learn how to build a simple web browser in just seven weeks? Or how to build a search engine like Google? Well, with Udacity you can do both and best of all the training is absolutely free and is led by expert professors from Stanford and the University of Virginia.
  • Rails for Zombies will take you through five zombie adventures, each followed by exercises where you learn by programming Rails in your browser. And best of all, it's free for learning HTML, CSS, and more.
  • MIT App Inventor - a beginner's introduction to app creation(Androids) using visual, drag-and-drop building blocks. States you can create a basic, fully functional app within an hour or less.
  • Alice - is a 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Object-oriented programming.
  • Greenfoot - teaches object orientation with Java. Create 'actors' which live in 'worlds' to build games, simulations, and other graphical programs
  • Hour of Code - 1 hour programming projects that could help generate project ideas
  • Creating games? - Check out GameMaker 2 Studio, Construct, Stencyl, GameSalad,...check to make sure there is a free trial, and for how long?
  • Student Safety Video Contest - Contest closes March 28
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