Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:08 AM
Very often as us AP Computer Teacher's approach exam time we start to think of interesting activities that our students can do the weeks that follow the exam. I was fortunate enough to come across a real nice project that was developed by a teacher and his former student who is now an employee at Microsoft. The project is called “Hunt for the Wombat”. Alfred Thompson does a great job describing this project on his blog (link). Thank you for that Alfred.
I thought that to promote this I would do a little covert advertising around the school and in my classroom. What I did was printed out some color copies of the Wombat and put them up in my classroom without telling my students what they are. All I am telling them is “you will see what this is all about after the exam”. I am hoping to build their interest a little by creating some anticipation. I have to be honest, I am getting pretty excited about this project myself and can't wait to introduce this to my students.