This is the first of what will hopefully be a series of posts by me. There will be an emphasis on the more technical side of things but, with any luck, things will be explained in plain English. I like to think that even though I am a geek by day I can still seeContinue reading “Remote control your Pi using your Mac”
Category Archives: Education
Coding Evening and BETT 2015
This week I decided to do something a little different – I’ve seen lots of people chatting about Raspberry Jams (meetups for Pi lovers), I’ve been to a Code Club meetup which had a lot of volunteers and not a lot of teachers and I’ve been to a CAS hub for teachers in Hammersmith. TheContinue reading “Coding Evening and BETT 2015”
2015 – the year of new stuff
I’ve not posted for a while – things have been busy – my father passed away in October and so I have been dealing with that, but as time has moved on and a new term has started I feel ready to dive back in head first. Anyway, that’s no excuse – my goal forContinue reading “2015 – the year of new stuff”
Google Classrooms
<edit 18/01/2015> So, I can’t help but wonder if Google have been reading my blog – I think that all of the issues I had with Google Classroom have now been corrected in the October update </edit> About two or three years ago I managed to persuade our network manager to set us up withContinue reading “Google Classrooms”
Museum of London Computing/History Consultation Evening
On Wednesday evening I visited the Museum of London after seeing an advert in my weekly CAS email offering a £40 amazon voucher to spend two hours looking at a new educational resource. They specifically requested history and/or computing teachers and were hoping for a range of both primary and secondary teachers. From what IContinue reading “Museum of London Computing/History Consultation Evening”
Testing…testing…1…2…3
So, with the start of the new term, I’ve been able to try out some of the resources I’ve mentioned with the children I teach. I’ll start with ActiveLit, the text based adventure writing programme I discovered via Twitter. Using the game I’d created over the summer, I set the Year 6 children the taskContinue reading “Testing…testing…1…2…3”
Pycon UK 2014
Apologies for the lack of blog – as always, the new term has been somewhat busy. This weekend I headed to Coventry for Pycon UK, a convention for users of Python. The lovely Nicholas Tollervay organised a two day education track; one day for teachers, one day for children. I was lucky enough to attendContinue reading “Pycon UK 2014”
Raspberry Pi – Minecraft
I don’t know about you, but for my Year 5s, Minecraft is a way of life – for the past 3 or 4 years I’ve seen it grow and grow in popularity to the extent that it’s no longer something cool to talk about, it is beyond cool, it’s just assumed that everyone knows whatContinue reading “Raspberry Pi – Minecraft”
Espresso Coding
We’ve been using Espresso in my school for a number of years for subjects like history and English. I’m sure most schools have one of their servers installed somewhere in a forgotten corner. As a maths and ICT teacher, I’ve never really found much use for it, but occasionally I’ve given it a cursory glance.Continue reading “Espresso Coding”
Raspberry Pi – CamJam EduKit (part 2)
After the success of my first post, thanks to Raspberry Pi tweeting about it, I thought I should move on to the other three worksheets that come with this pack (there are another two in the process of being made). I’m really pleased with the feedback I’ve received and I’m really looking forward to seeingContinue reading “Raspberry Pi – CamJam EduKit (part 2)”
Cat Lamin 