Hi folks,
For my particular group of students (so far) having a physical paper to refer to – and turn in – has been helping them to stay focused on the activity, so I made a quick 1.7 Activity Guide and wanted to share in case it’s useful for anyone else.
Please give me a heads up if something is wrong/could be worded better/should be added, I’m always looking to improve these things!
Thanks. As a new teacher, helpful hints and tools like this are much appreciated.
I made one too!
Thank you, this guide was very useful
Thanks this is very helpful.
Can you tell me how to code the challenge of
Whoa, this message sure has a lot of FORMATTING in it!
Are we talking ASCII or self-developed code? In either case, each letter/symbol has an assigned value that can be written in decimal or binary. Personally, I give a printout of the basic ASCII table at the end of the lesson (I prefer a version with just decimal/character, since I’ve found kids are more likely to forget which column to look at when it also has hex, oct, ect).
Thank you for responding. I see this as a challenge in that lesson–and I’m wondering how to send it in the Internet Simulator on Unit 1 Lesson 7 with the formatting (bold, colors, etc.)
Maybe I’m making this harder than it should be. I have the ASCII table and I understand that.
So are the students supposed to create their own code for the formatting? and is that possible?
Yes, their own formatting code using the first 32 digits, if I remember correctly—something like 10 toggles on/off italics, etc.
A more general way to think about it would be asking how can you communicate to the recipient what words/letters should be bold? Italics? etc.
For example, if I wanted to send: These are strong words
… maybe I’ll send this: These are [MAKE THESE WORDS BOLD =>]strong words[<= MAKE THESE WORDS BOLD]
That might work. Are there other ways? Other ways that might be more efficient and/or clear?