Interactivelearning

PhoneIoT is a free mobile app for iOS and Android that allows you to connect your device to NetsBlox and access its sensors and display from your NetsBlox projects. This enables students to create things like tilting controls for a game (accelerometer), tracking your device’s position on a map (location),… Read More

NetsBlox is a visual programming language and cloud-based environment that enables novice programmers to create networked programs such as multi-player games. NetsBlox opens up the internet with its vast array of public domain data sources and services making it possible to create STEM projects, such as displaying seismic activity anywhere on Earth using an interactive Google Maps background. Similarly, weather, air pollution, and many other data sources such as the Open Movie Database and the Sloan Digital Sky Server are available. NetsBlox also supports collaborative editing similar to Google Docs. netsblox.org showAkos Ledeczi showDevin Jean Gordon Stein External Collaborators Brian Broll, Angel AI Core Publications C Brady, B Broll, G Stein, D Jean, S Grover, V Cateté, T Barnes, Á Lédeczi. Block-based abstractions and expansive services to make advanced computing concepts accessible to novices. Journal of Computer Languages 73, 101156. G Stein, I Gransbury, D Jean, M Hill, V Catete, S Grover, T Barnes, B Broll. Engaging Female High School Students in the Frontiers of Computing. 2022. ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. Funding Sources Read More

 C2STEM (Collaborative Computational STEM) is a collaborative problem-solving environment where students work in pairs to develop computational models of scientific processes such as Physics and Marine Biology. It is a multi-institutional project aimed at designing and developing a learning environment that integrates visual programming with domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs). This… Read More

BeatBlox is the latest extension to the NetsBlox block-based programming environment developed at Vanderbilt University. NetsBlox was built on top of the open-source codebase of Snap! from UC Berkeley and was specifically designed to teach cutting edge computing concepts such as distributed computing, the Internet of Things, and cybersecurity to… Read More