2015

Learn to Teach Coding – Webinar Recording

Tuesday May 26, 2015. Today we had a lively half hour free webinar presentation by Kimberly Bryant and Lake Raymond from Black Girls CODE about their latest efforts and the exciting LITA preconference they will be giving at ALA Annual in San Francisco. Here’s the link to the recording from todays session: LITA Learn to Teach Coding Free information webinar recording, May 26, 2015 For more information check out the previous LITA Blog entry: Did you attend the webinar, or view the recording?  Give us your feedback by taking the Evaluation Survey. Learn to Teach Coding and Mentor Technology Newbies – in Your Library or Anywhere! Then register for and attend the LITA preconference at ALA Annual. This opportunity is following up on the 2014 LITA President’s Program at ALA Annual where then LITA President Cindi Trainor Blyberg welcomed Kimberly Bryant, founder of Black Girls Code. The Black Girl Code…

2015

Learn to Teach Coding and Mentor Technology Newbies – in Your Library or Anywhere!

Attend a free one hour webinar to discover what learning to teach coding is all about, and then register for and attend the LITA preconference at ALA Annual. This opportunity is following up on the 2014 LITA President’s Program at ALA Annual where then LITA President Cindi Trainor Blyberg welcomed Kimberly Bryant, founder of Black Girls Code. The informational webinar is free and open to the first 100 log-ins: Tuesday May 26, 2015 at 1:00 pm Central Time http://ala.adobeconnect.com/teachcoding/ Enter as guest. The webinar will be recorded and the link to the recording will be posted to these same resource spaces. Here the link to the Recording now available. Register online for the ALA Annual Conference and add a LITA Preconference  Black Girls CODE (BGC) is devoted to showing the world that black girls can code, and grow the number of women of color working in technology. LITA is devoted to putting on…

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Women Learning to Code

I am a user of technology much more than a creator.   After I completed a masters in educational technology I knew to better use the skills I had learned it would benefit me to gain a better understanding of computer coding. My HTML skills were adequate but rusty, and I didn’t have any experience with other languages. To increase these skills I really did not want to have to take another for-credit course, but I also knew that I would have a better learning experience if I had someone of whom I could ask questions. Around this time, I was made aware of Girl Develop It. I have attended a few meetings and truly appreciate the instruction and the opportunity to learn new skills. As a way to introduce the readers of the LITA blog who might be interested in adding to their skill-set I interviewed Michelle Brush and Denisse…