The past week has seen a somewhat flurry of activity around a range of different issues. Firstly, I was contacted with regard to CoderDojos starting up in Devon. This is really exciting as it takes Code Club to the next level and extends participation to 7 – 17 year olds. There should be a…
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Futurelearn course update May 2018
I have decided to undertake my next future learn course ‘Teaching programming in Primary Schools‘. This covers using scratch to create simple and more complex programs. It is designed also cover the basic concepts in programming. Hopefully I can not only use what is taught to help me as a Teaching Assistant in schools…
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Given all the current media attention given to Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. This demonstrates real anger at how our personal data is potentially (mis)used and how people are using this. The consequences are now proving costly to those involved. If you want to #deletefacebook, then please consider joining the free, decentralized, privacy aware and…
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CPD Update 2018 – Part 2 3/3/2018 Completed the Futurelearn ‘Prepare to run a code club’ course and signed up to the Teaching Physical Computing with Raspberry Pi and Python’ course. I will however upgrade and obtain a certificate for both courses.
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DWP Project 4 Another session at the DWP today in Torquay, Controlling a PiStop with Scratch1.4 using the Pi GPIO pins, this went really well and we got a nice sequence of lights going. Next session we will be starting to look at WordPress. So this will be setting up a free WordPress thinking about…
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CPD Update 2018 – Part 1 Over the past week or so I have been working hard to update my CPD and CV. Firstly on the 16th of Feb I attended a Child Sexual Exploitation Awareness course. This was presented by the Children’s society and held at the Foyer in Torquay. I found out…
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Exeter Raspberry Pi jam Saturday 3rd Feb 2018 sees the next Raspberry Pi jam taking place at Exeter Library, as usual the will have Pi’s, Micro:bits, Arduino, electronics etc. So lots of hacking, learning and fun, as well as the usual chat, help, advice and support. Should be good. See you between 10 and…
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Codeclub – Torquay Updated due to change of information. Torquay Library are looking for a volunteer to help the current volunteer run the Torquay code club. This will involve running a code club and working with children aged between 7 and 13. If you are able to help, please get in touch with Shona…
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January 2018 We set the room up as usual and implemented a new table layout for the Physical computing are, which myself and Matthew worked out in Early December 2017. This worked really wall as the horseshoe shape allowed 3 sides to get access to hardware while leaving a larger area, sectioned off with chairs…
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Safer Internet Day 2018 This year’s Safer Internet Day (SID) celebrations will take place on Tuesday, 6 February 2018. The 2018 theme, “Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you”
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