Hour of Code has become a global phenomenon, but with excellent resources and celebrity support, it comes as no surprise. Several websites are now running their own Hour of Code projects, but I want to look at the ones on the official site as I’m really impressed with their offerings this year. Earlier in theContinue reading “Hour of Code 2015 – Minecraft”
Category Archives: Education
A Beginner’s Guide to Primary Coding
In the summer of 2014, I tirelessly tried out various resources and blogged about them as I went along, but this summer, I wasn’t able to blog as much for one simple reason… This book. I spent most of my summer holiday trying out new resources and rewriting existing pieces to create a simple guideContinue reading “A Beginner’s Guide to Primary Coding”
A Raspberry Pi Scratch Resource
Tomorrow I will be running a workshop for MozFest, a massive community event in London organised by Mozilla. Young Raspberry Pi enthusiast, PiNet creator and all round evil genius Andrew Mulholland somehow found himself organising a Rasperry Pi Zone at the event (I definitely had no involvement in this whatsoever) and so he coerced/bullied meContinue reading “A Raspberry Pi Scratch Resource”
Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE) 2015
So, this post isn’t specifically about coding in the primary curriculum, but I wanted to share with you nevertheless. Last week I spent a week in The Netherlands courtesy of Apple who selected me as one of their distinguished educators for 2015. The ADE programme has been running for 21 years, since 1994, and thereContinue reading “Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE) 2015”
Egham Jam & Picademy Round 2
As some of you may have noticed from my twitter, I’ve recently been invited to talk a couple of times about the things I’ve been doing since I attended Picademy last year. Firstly, I went to Egham Jam and met the lovely Albert Hickey, as well as a bunch of lovely and enthusiastic Pi people.Continue reading “Egham Jam & Picademy Round 2”
Learning to Solder – Zoo Kit
Last weekend I went to CamJam and I was very impressed with some small soldering kits that Hannah Mills had bought from The PiHut called Learn to Solder Zoo Badge. I was absolutely gutted that they had already sold out, but fortunately they had plenty in stock on their website. At only £2 each IContinue reading “Learning to Solder – Zoo Kit”
Raspberry Pi – an idiots guide to installing Raspbian on a Mac
So, once again I need to admit my ignorance… A few weeks ago, my friend borrowed my SD card ‘to take an image’ and somehow corrupted it – I don’t know how and neither does he, but he did managed to back up all my files. So, I’ve not used my home Pi for aContinue reading “Raspberry Pi – an idiots guide to installing Raspbian on a Mac”
Sonic Pi
One of the things I was shown at Picademy, was Sonic Pi. At the time I thought it was a great resource, but too difficult for me. Since then, I was lucky enough to meet creator, Sam Aaron and persuade (ok..bully) him to visit my school and run an all day workshop about the software.Continue reading “Sonic Pi”
The PiStop
I’ve realised that I haven’t yet written a blog post about my favourite bit of kit for the Raspberry Pi, the PiStop by 4Tronix. So first lets talk about why I like it so much then I’ll talk through a demo of using it. Earlier in this blog, I talked about the CamJam EduKit andContinue reading “The PiStop”
Astro Pi Competition
Yesterday I was lucky enough to attend the Raspberry Pi third birthday party event in Cambridge. While I was there I took the opportunity to talk to the lovely Dave Honess about the competition he is helping to run for Raspberry Pi in collaboration with the UK Space Agency, Astro Pi. The competition was launchedContinue reading “Astro Pi Competition”
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