Chris Barnabei
Chris Barnabei
Chris Barnabei

10: ‘I like Swift as a teaching language.’ with Chris Barnabei

Brian Foutty
Jul 29, 2017 · 2 min read

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I am pleased to share the great and varied conversation I had with Chris Barnabei. Chris is a librarian and technology integration specialist for a STEM high school in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He supervises the school’s 1:1 iPad program, library/makerspace, and professional development initiatives. In addition, Chris teaches classes in Swift programming, iOS app development, and video production. Coding has been a recent interest of his, and along with a team of students published an app to the App Store for his school in June 2016. Chris attended WWDC16 on an educator scholarship, and presented a TEDx talk advocating for coding in K–12 schools. He started his teaching career as an elementary librarian in 2007. Since then, instructional technology has been a passion of his, and he has championed its use as vehicle for student engagement, achievement, and positive school reform.

A special to thanks Chris for taking time out of his schedule to talk with me on the podcast.

Chris’s school
Twitter: @ChrisBarnabei
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Show links
Apple Distinguished Educator program
TEDx Lancaster
STEM education
Swift
Rochester Institute of Technology — RIT
App Stories — Episode 15
stackoverflow
Auxy
Overcast
Swift Playgrounds
Learn to Code 1 & 2
Learn to Code 3
Python
Into to App Development with Swift curriculum (Teacher) & (Student)
App Development with Swift — (Teacher) & (Student)
Swift Teacher — Episode 8
Keynote
JavaScript
HTML
CloudKit
Jamf Pro
Douglas Kiang — Twitter

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Observations and experiences of teaching Swift in high shool

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