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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DWP Project 5
DWP Project 5 First of several sessions looking at WordPress, today we set up a basic site using the free account and decided what theme we wanted to use. This went really well. My printed notes came in handy so these are useful both as a e-presentation or as printed notes. Next week sees…
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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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My plans for summer volunteer work sadly fell flat. YMCA South Devon were not interested. I also contacted the Acorn Centre in Barton, they also want volunteers but didn’t bother to get back to me, so I ended up wasting a whole day, waiting in for them to call back. So I assumed they…
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