tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64199446183097305462024-02-19T06:06:39.870+00:00Nicholas HughesIdeas and Links to all things teaching and ICT related. I hope you find something useful.Nic Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537722164761317048noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419944618309730546.post-10474004367158665992018-02-25T17:16:00.002+00:002018-02-25T17:21:55.963+00:00London CAS Conference 24th FebSo yesterday was the 3rd CAS London Conference.<br />
I attended a number of sessions and ran one.
I am going to just review some of the sessions I attended and give my thoughts<br />
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It started with a talk from John Nixon, Ofsted National Lead for Computing.<br />
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His presentation definitely had a number of things that was food for thought, it's worth pointing out here so that everything he said could be applied to any subject within schools.<br />
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From a computing point of view though he mentioned that although Ofsted don't have a preference for the type of technology that are being used in school the key things are looking for is the impact and implementation of that technology. So they will be asking Leadership questions about how well does it work and if it doesn't what are you doing about it.<br />
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He made it very clear that even though Computer Science was a large component of the new curriculum we should not be losing sight of other aspects of ICT.<br />
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He made the point that the PoS for Computing that children at KS1&2 should be given repeated practical experience of writing computer programs in order to solve problems. How often do children actually get the opportunity to do this and do the children know they're doing this?<br />
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He made an interesting point about children at KS4 don't take computing and that them still some requirement for children to be prepared for a modern digital Society.<br />
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A point that really struck me was that as part of the inspection they will look at ‘the breadth of the curriculum and pupils access to it’ (paragraph 66 - schools inspection handbook) What he went on to ask us was, how you adapted your SoW to meet the needs of your pupils? So when we are buying in schemes of work we need to think about how they can be adapted.
He also reminded everyone that he content of your curriculum including the content and skills should be published on the school website.<br />
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Curriculum needs to be online for inspection <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnNixonHMI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JohnNixonHMI</a> explains <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/casconf2018?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#casconf2018</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/casconf18?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#casconf18</a> and must show progression in planning. schemes should be adapted to meet the needs of pupils. Ofsted may ask learners if computing is fun, challenging, and if they are learning new things <a href="https://t.co/2L1nsFv9I0">pic.twitter.com/2L1nsFv9I0</a></div>
— CAS London (@cas_london_crc) <a href="https://twitter.com/cas_london_crc/status/967342244368928768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2018</a></blockquote>
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To become outstanding everyone must have a deep knowledge and understanding of the subjects they teach.
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If you lead computing in your school here are some questions to think about👇 <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnNixonHMI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JohnNixonHMI</a> says “you need to have you own answers, there is no preferred way of doing things but ask yourself does the curriculum work for my students?”<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/casconf18?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#casconf18</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/caschat?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#caschat</a> <a href="https://t.co/dQNQZvkR8q">pic.twitter.com/dQNQZvkR8q</a></div>
— Bradley Dardis (@BradleyDardis) <a href="https://twitter.com/BradleyDardis/status/967345367967830017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2018</a></blockquote>
Of course online safety is something they will talk about because they have to as it is part of safeguarding, <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Does everyone in your school now all the policies related to safeguarding since disclosure's can be made to anyone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">After this, they day was broken up into four </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">sessions on various aspects of Computing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I started off by going to a Python </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">introduction </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">session, I wanted to go to refresh some of my own subject knowledge. It was good just to have a play around with things that I forgotten about. It was presenting a really clearly and through eight lines of code managed to teach 7 concepts.</span></span></div>
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Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/duck_star?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@duck_star</a> for making me think more deeply about inputs and outputs. Love the robot olympics idea! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/casconf18?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#casconf18</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/caschat?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#caschat</a> <a href="https://t.co/AlpCyUP0U8">pic.twitter.com/AlpCyUP0U8</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>The first session of the afternoon was on drones and was very informative, the young man taking session and built his own drone from scratch. The application though back to the classroom was more limited. Royal Academy of Engineering did show off some of the STEM activities that they make and get got a great bonus of a stem kit that we can take back to school on drones. I look forward to using back in school.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">I think the most important part of Phils session to remember why are we assessing and what are we doing with that information. The moment we make anything onerous or a tick box activity, is it actually providing anything useful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">Assessment appears in many forms and you might be doing lots of tiny assessments throughout the learning, or you might only have one one assessment opportunities, there are no set rules. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">If you get ever get the opportunity here will speak about adjustment is absolutely worth going it's not the first time I've seen him speak about it nor will it be the last because there's always something new to be gleaned. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">He spoke in-depth about using a problem solving rubric, he had developed with Mark Dorling to assess problem solving and how that can be linked to computational thinking. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Here is a link to the </span><a href="http://code-it.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/apc2.pdf" style="font-size: 11pt;" target="_blank">Assessment Slides</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Right at the end of the day because I stayed to the bitter end I got the opportunity to see David Whale (@wheleygeek) the Microb:Bit Wizard showing off a really clever micro:bit activity. This activity allows you to quickly prototype and idea of something you can make with one or a pair of micro:bits. The microb:bit is running a program which allows you select various inputs and outputs of a micro:bit, you choose them from a list on screen. You can make the micro:bit, show a face when you push a button or more interestingly if I shake my micro:bit I can make the paired micro:bit show a sad face. What this activity is great for is giving children a quick way to see what's possible with a micro:bit. Once they've planned out and designed an idea, then they can start thinking about how they would program the micro:bit to do it. David will be sharing these resources on the link below.</span></div>
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Nic Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537722164761317048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419944618309730546.post-25834595777048947142018-01-27T10:22:00.000+00:002018-01-27T10:30:48.302+00:00Bett Day 2...<span id="docs-internal-guid-5beb922a-36dc-93a2-0d43-dc5c1672576b"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I noticed more micro:bit models by a couple of companies today. These </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">were</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> great little wooden models that had been laser cut. You build them add the motors and micro:bit and away you go. I liked a kit that made a teabag dipper. There where also a </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">couple</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of nice games. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lots of companies seem to be getting in the idea of the micro:bit as a driver behind a number a little projects. I think if nothing else these tiny products that are fairly inexpensive to buy. Schools could be buying a couple of these and then using them as inspiration for kids and making </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">their</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> own out of cardboard. It is the fact that there's lots more ideas suddenly out there, more </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">accessible</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to the normal class teacher. Check out micromaker.co</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Continuing again on the maker theme, I was impressed by a lot of the STEM and creative sections on a number of the largest stands. In particular Microsoft had a really really nice section on hacking STEM, which currently is all based on Arduino but the projects themselves are fully adaptable and you could probably easily get them working with microbo:bit. There are loads of resources and lessons plans to make projects. They did suggest that micro:bit guides where going to be coming soon, anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linking that back to some of the stuff yesterday with birdbrain technologies and all the great stuff in the micro:bit stand it just provides more materials that teachers and children could use to try and link computing and design. </span></div>
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I loved the dragon... :o) </div>
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I popped back to the Google stand to have a look at Science Journal, an app on chromebooks, android and apple devices. I saw this yesterday very briefly but didn't have time to have it run through for me. This is an app that basically turns your iPad or iPhone or Android device into a data logger. It simply allows you to use all the sensors that are in the device. So if you strap iPad onto a car and roll it down a ramp you will get acceleration data from the accelerometer. Which you then get as a graph that you can export to sheets to further analyse. Unfortunately it currently doesn't support Google Classroom but he said that he's coming soon.</div>
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Yesterday I mentioned a small robot, which I didn't name, it is called True True. I went back today and had a closer look at it and it's a really, really interesting little robot. It is similar to an Ozobot to be fair but it one looks cuter and I was just impressed by build and manufacture. What I like is that for KS1 it can be programmed via feeding it cards, but what I discovered today is that it can programmed using scratch, which opens it up to KS2. It also have the ability to plug in extra sensors. So it's a cute but truly could be a robot that you can use in every key stage, so I think it's worth keeping an eye on. It currently isn't available to buy in the UK and has no distributors but it's something definitely to come back to.</div>
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In the same area I saw another app programming game that had a really interesting extra component I've never seen before. The basic app game was one where you choose the icons and a little character moves long a level and you solve the puzzle. Very standard game are there are lots of games out there like it. It also though has a physical board with blocks that you moved around to program the characters on screen, so had nice physical/tactile elements. But the thing that really struck me as really interesting was there was a cardboard board that allowed you to plan out your ideas before using the app. I've never seen an add on to an app game quite like. Every level has a piece of cardboard which shows the whole level and all the platforms and elements on the level. You had a character pieces and small cards of the actions. So the children can plan, discuss and test, by moving the character piece on the board and 'running' the actions. Once they are happy the can put the program into the app and see it it responds how they predicted. But if there is an issue you can go back to the physical board to help debug there program. I genuinely never seen anything like it. It is called Cubico.</div>
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If you get a chance you need to check out BirdBrain Technologies Stand, they are behind Micro:bit. They have a board that interfaces with the Micro:Bit and make it very easy to add sensors, servos and motors. The applications for DT amd making are endless. They have a great robot zoo, full of programmed creations... I hope to talk more about this in the future. I spent last Sat working with then all day being inspired.</div>
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Continuing on that theme of models that you can build and program I came across this stall called Smart Paper RC. It produces a kit that has come predesigned models, perhaps something for the less confident to start with. It works with a tablet but can also work with a Micro:Bit. The models themselves looked amazing. </div>
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Continuing on the theme on Micro:Bit... There seemed to be an explosion of add on boards this year, that further extend what you can do with the Micro:Bit. The MeArm is something that I have had for ages and wanted to use with a Raspberry Pi, but this new board that uses the Micro:Bit opens up the accessibility for this fun kit. </div>
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The Micro:Bit provides a low cost entry into physical computing and these new low cost add on board help to ensure that there will always be a new project to try out. </div>
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Binary Bots had a new kits that you build and then control using a Micro:Bit.</div>
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Last night at A Teachmeet at The Machine Rooms I saw in person the Micro:Bit Racing Unicorns from Helen Leigh (@helenleigh)</div>
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Invent! I saw again which is a kit based in the Crumble Controller. It has modules that you can quickly add to a board... This also will soon have a Micro:Bit adaptor. </div>
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Pobble was a bit of a surprise, It is a system where you can quickly share and promote children's writing. On one level it is just a blogging tool with commenting ability. But I think the power is in that you can search for children's writing on topics and styles. This is a growing archive, this could be very useful to give children and teachers real examples of writing, it would be very useful for modeling and perhaps with time moderation. It also allows for work to be stored, so you can make a digital portfolio of work. I will take back to school to show to my English lead. It is worth a look. It is over in the Bett Futures Area,</div>
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Following on the English theme Mrs Wordsmith was an interesting project that used machine learning to search and select the words that were then checked. It is basically a vocabulary building program, but the thing I really like waas this 'dictionary' where all the words are stored in themed sections, such as characters, weather, actions, etc... It is work a look. </div>
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Skype Education is something that anyone who is interested in Video Conferencing should look at, I didn't realise how much it now offers. I really liked the Mystery Skype idea where you have to guess where your caller is from just by asking yes/no questions. </div>
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This small A4 Vac Forming Machine, from Mayku, maybe the best thing I saw at the show. Small and portabile. It can be used to form shapes. So lovely examples with KS1 and creating chocolate moulds. </div>
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I really like the new Chemistry Update which allows you to craft in different ways, you can make elements. The helium balloons that you can now create, make even make cows fly. :)</div>
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A few robots that grabbed my attention was this small guy, who you program by 'feeding' it instruction cards. Very similar to an Ozobot, but does more. Much cuter. Still $120 though.</div>
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The Kubo I really like still, I supported it on IndyGoGo. A robot that 'reads' the tiles underneath it. Could be a nice alternative for KS1, also has a spelling game now as well. </div>
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Google where showing their app <b>Science Journal</b>, that basically turns a tablet/phone into a data logger. It can store and record all the data from the many sensors built into devices today. Could be great for science experiments. Look on the various app stores. </div>
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Nic Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537722164761317048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419944618309730546.post-75973641331259617782017-01-26T23:33:00.002+00:002017-01-26T23:33:32.925+00:00BETT 2017 Day 1So its that time of year where we descend on east london and worship at the altar of BETT.<br />
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I always enjoy the show and consider it an important event to head to if you are interested in Ed tech. Yes there is lots of selling to avoid, but there are always loads of good opportunities to sample something new, get some free CPD and most importantly talk to people. It is always a great time catching up with people who you perhaps only ever interact with on twitter.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #282625; font-family: "Open Sans", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Well yes it has. As always I'm always looking for the next robot. I headed straight to BETT Futures and within the first 5 minutes I'd only seen a few robots that looked quite interesting. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #282625; font-family: Open Sans, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">One is from a company called invent! Which is a crumble based robot and uses the same software as a crumble board. The basic kit seems to be about £50 but have a very low barrier to entry as it is modular and simple to clip together, together no croc clips. So you can make a robot with sensors or a room guard. For some teachers this could be an ideal kit to start playing around with physical computing, while they get more confident. There was an Arduino version as well that used the same components. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #282625; font-family: "Open Sans", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">The mBot is not exactly a new robot but there are a number of new innovations that I spotted for use with Makeblocks mBot. I saw on Google stand, Chosing with Chrome, a web-based interface that will let you program a bluetooth mBot, (</span><span style="color: #282625; font-family: Open Sans, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">http://codingwithchrome.foo/) without installing any other software. This is great </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #282625; font-family: Open Sans, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">for schools that have Chromebooks because suddenly is possible for a school to use mBots. Coding with Chrome also works with Sphero and Lego EV3.</span></span></span><br />
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<br />Nic Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537722164761317048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419944618309730546.post-64246119765279874062016-05-06T08:09:00.001+00:002016-05-13T10:22:32.002+00:00Courses and Conferences (Updated!)Hi everyone.<br />
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It has been a while as normal with my blogging, real life and teaching takes over. But I thought I would drop a quite note about some events I am attending and running over the next few months.<br />
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<b>I been lucky enough to chosen to speak/present at:</b><br />
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<a href="http://southlondonraspberryjam.org.uk/" target="_blank">South London Raspberry Jam</a> - 14th May in London - I will be running some workshops on Crumble Boards<br />
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<a href="http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2016-national-cas-conference-for-teachers-of-computing-registration-24480090610" target="_blank">National Computing at School Conference</a> - 18th June in Birmingham - I will be talking about Crumble Boards and Robotics.<br />
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<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exabytes-technology-in-education-conference-tickets-24284712228" target="_blank">exabytes - technology in education conference</a> - 23rd June in Bradford<br />
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<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1st-wimbledon-raspberry-jam-tickets-25268952116" target="_blank">1st Wimbledon Raspberry Jam</a> - 26th June<br />
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<b>I'm still running my termly CAS Hub session.</b><br />
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<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cas-hammersmith-hub-summer-2016-tickets-20742152336" target="_blank">CAS Hammersmith Hub</a> - 15th June in Hammersmith<br />
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<img alt="3BM" src="http://www.3bm.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/3bm-logo.png" /> <b>In association with 3BM, I will also be running a series of courses. They will be run in the afternoon from 1 till 4 and then again after school from 4.30 till 6.30. </b><br />
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Physical Computing at KS2 - <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/physical-computing-at-ks2-16th-june-afternoon-tickets-22579014440" target="_blank">Afternoon Session</a> - <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/physical-computing-at-ks2-16th-june-after-school-tickets-25230274430" target="_blank">After School Session</a><br />
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Unplugged Computing - <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unplugged-computing-17th-june-afternoon-tickets-25230295493" target="_blank">Afternoon Session</a> - <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unplugged-computing-17th-june-after-school-tickets-25230362694" target="_blank">After School Session</a><br />
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Using a CodeBug - <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/using-a-codebug-7th-july-afternoon-tickets-25230589372" target="_blank">Afternoon Session</a> - <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/using-a-codebug-7th-july-after-school-tickets-25230757876" target="_blank">After School Session</a><br />
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<b>Some links to other conferences that also look very interesting:</b><br />
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<a href="http://linkis.com/ictineducation.org/g9NyV" target="_blank">http://linkis.com/ictineducation.org/g9NyV </a><br />
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<a href="https://mozillafestival.org/" target="_blank">Mozfest</a> - 28th - 30th October - (I'll be helping out somehow at this one as well.)<br />
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<a href="http://2016.pyconuk.org/" target="_blank">Pycon UK</a> - 15th - 19th September - Teacher day is the 16th.<br />
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Please check them all out. :)<br />
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<br />Nic Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537722164761317048noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419944618309730546.post-27170002263521889902016-01-24T18:54:00.001+00:002016-01-24T19:25:01.396+00:00BETT Day 2 and 3.So it is all over for another year.<br />
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So what and who did I come across that perked my interest that is worth sharing?<br />
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I started the 2nd day by taking part in two lego workshops. One using the new Lego Wedo 2.0 kit, (Which I have already blogged about <a href="http://nicholashughes.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/lego-wedo-20.html" target="_blank">here</a>.) and then the EV3 kit.<br />
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The first workshop had us redesign Milo the Rovers head, so that it could move. It was a nice task that could easily be extended into design and science. The whole kit has a heavy scientific slant with which many themes that can be linked.<br />
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The EV3 workshop had a simple task for creating a vehicle that can carry a lego person and start using a sonic sensor. It was great how using just a few simple lego parts a simple rover could be made. While I like the EV3 kits the price does make it a difficult choice for primary.<br />
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Both workshops where great and very hands on, both can be used with a iPad via bluetooth.<br />
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From there I visited a talk about Top Technology Toys to Transform Your Classroom, given by Bryan L.Miller and Dr. Katrina Keene. They talked very passionately about many commercially available toys that can be used in class. Focusing on the 3 Cs, Communication, Collaboration and Creativity and the importance of play. They gave some brief examples of what they have used.<br />
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Many I have seen before but a few that stood out where the new ViewMaster, which is basically a plastic version of google cardboard, but along with supported VR experiences. Also Marbotic Smart Letters, which are wooden blocks that are recognised by a tablet. Finally something called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_tp1MPRmT0" target="_blank">Puzzlets</a> which is a problem solving game where the player places physical tiles to solve the problem. Some of these need a bit more research.<br />
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Ozobot, Sphero, Osmo, Makey Makey, Kano, LittleBits, Dash and Dot, Parrot Minidrone - some of these all use a excellent app called Tickle. All of the above are worth a further look and I will be going back to review some of my kits over the next few weeks.<br />
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I caught part of a talk about the ExoMars Rover. This was talking about the practical problems that engineers have to overcome about when designing and making a autonomous rover. I liked the idea of using a rover for the stimulus for a longer design and computing project can could easily link to a space topic. There are many computing challenges that could be considered such as efficient search patterns and how to make sure that the rover doesn't topple.<br />
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Chatting to some other keen robotics fans, (<a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/Isreal_Genius" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none !important;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target">Isreal_Genius</span></a><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #8899a6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;"> ) </span>we liked the idea of simulating a martian landscape and designing a robot that can transverse it. Also the idea of placing a rover in a school field and seeing if it can return home, also can solar charging be implemented as well?<br />
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After wandering around in my wearable jacket for a 2nd day I managed to meet up with the creator of the crumble from redfern electronics. He liked my jacket and showed me a new super simple robot chasis he is selling called the Crumble Build-Bot.</div>
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Now while the Micro:Bit is not going to be given away to Primary children we will be able to buy them. Now I love the Codebug and the Crumble board. But if the price is right the Micro:Bit will be worth looking at as well, it contains far more sensors on the board itself. There where loads of great maker projects and ideas for how it could be used in class. </div>
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I saw Phil Bagge talk about Myths and Resources about Computing in the classroom. Phil is great to watch and has great ideas and talks for a very practical point of view. His website <a href="http://code-it.co.uk/" target="_blank">code-it.co.uk </a>should be looked at it has a lot of good resources.<br />
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It isn't cheap, the basic model is £600, but they have a very inventive solution to allow children to very quickly have access to the robot in class. At any point the teacher can give control to any computer in the class. So I think it could be possible to work with this in class with only a few robots. </div>
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Phew, thats is it for now. More details on some items to follow but hopefully some of the review above is useful.</div>
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<br />Nic Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537722164761317048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419944618309730546.post-7568024120675463752016-01-21T23:09:00.002+00:002016-01-21T23:09:27.984+00:00BETT Day 1Hi :o)<br />
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So my first day at BETT is over.<br />
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Thanks to everyone who said Hi, it was great to catchup.<br />
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My wearables jacket got a lot of love and it survived.<br />
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Minecraft Education Edition was very interesting. I was waiting to see what Minecraft was going to do with Minecraft since they bought it. It is in simple terms a 'new' version of Minecraft that will replace Minecraft EDU that many schools use. It will be now linked to children's office 365 accounts. While I have some issue with the price, the new system seems to suggest that it will be very easy to install and set up servers. More information is coming on this.</div>
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There where many great ideas for how to use Minecraft in the curriculum. (I will do another post soon on some of theses) But below show a model of the human eye that you can walk around.</div>
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I loved some of the new products form TTS. A <a href="http://www.tts-group.co.uk/shops/tts/Products/PD4915081/" target="_blank">NeoPixel Screen</a> (£60)and a <a href="http://www.tts-group.co.uk/shops/tts/products/pd4932617/" target="_blank">Controller</a> (£20) both are to be used with scratch, They are simple to use and provide another level of input and output to Scratch. It makes it very simple to use in class. </div>
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The also had a preview of a new robot called the InO-bot, it is a fairly impressive robots that has a lot of sensors. Its nice but there are lots of robots to choose from on the Market at the moment and I would still look to the <a href="http://learn.makeblock.cc/mbot/" target="_blank">mBot.</a></div>
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Another new robot I saw called the <a href="http://kubo-robot.com/#" target="_blank">Kubo Junior</a>. It was a really nice KS1 robot that 'read' card on the table and then performed the instructions. They also talked about that it could be programmed in scratch and then even Arduino, by changing the head. It is going to be launched on Kickstarter later in the year.</div>
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Some cool tech - a PiTopCEED which is a £99 screen for use with a Raspberry Pi. I have supported this on Indiegogo. More to come on this.</div>
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TTS also was launching a new bluetooth tile board for the Bluebot. Interesting but I think the same thing could be achieved with physical cards and work just as well. Could be good for SEN children. Need to look at again. <br />
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Explain Everything an App that we use in school for lessons, is introducing a new app that allows collaboration, It isn;t free, but seems to combine features of Showbie and Nearpod. Worth a further look especially if you really like Explain Everything. </div>
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Best Freebe of the show today a Mini mode of Milo the new Robot in Wedo 2.0. Thanks LEGO.<br />
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I really like the original kit. Its a great way to get physical computing into the classroom.<br />
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I've been happily playing around and made the Milo Rover react to a joystick on it's back.<br />
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I've made it count and change colour. This is a think a new feature as it can display text and number and do simple sums. It can store one variable and do some limited actions on it.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">So this weekend I successful launched a high altitude balloon and recovered the payload. This makes 2 successful launches. This is all thanks to the Raspberry Pi foundation and in no small way James Robinson and David Akerman.</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><br />
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Rewinding a bit this is all because at the end of August I attended a course run by the Raspberry Pi Foundation called Skycademy, which taught me and 23 others how to plan, build, launch and recover a payload sent up to heights of 23k or more. That's 4 times the height of a plane. We where in split in 4 teams and we each had to launch a payload. Team Nimbus (me and 5 others) successfully launched and recovered our payload. But we wanted more!<br />
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So on the 2nd day of Pycon UK, more on that event in other post, Team Nimbus' launched our second balloon under the watchful eye of James. Our aim was practice the skills we learned at the end of August, send up a few trinkets and capture some more amazing images.<br />
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Our day started at Pycon, doing last minute check and collecting all the important equipment. Then just at the start of the Kids day after collecting a Frog and 2 Lego mini figs from children at the event, we where off to the National Space Centre in Leicester. We couldn't launch at Pycon as we didn't have CAA approval we where too close to an airport and the wind was blowing the wrong way.<br />
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So 45 minutes later we where at the Space Centre in the car part setting up for the launch. We had a window between 10-12 for the launch.<br />
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After careful setup, testing of the payloads and many phone calls to the local air traffic control, the payload was sealed put and we started to inflate the balloon. There was a small crowd that gathered to cheer on the launch. At just after 12 we where ready to release. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Go!<br />
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Now we had to pack up and chase! Magmount aerial on the car, radio and LoRa connected and we headed to where the flight prediction had predicted the landing.<br />
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On the chase we kept up to date from the <a href="http://habhub.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Habhub.org</a> website, which was tracking the payload thought he data being received by other recipe rods round the country.<br />
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At about 22km our balloon burst and it started to drop, we where still on route at this point. It was moving faster than our cars.<br />
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Eventually about 200m above the ground the stationary trackers lost contact and it was up to the chase cars to get close to the last location and use our tracking gear to get the final GPS coordinates. After a wild goose chase from me and some incorrectly read coordinates we compared notes with the 2nd chase team and confirmed the coordinates. Punched that into google maps and started to walk across fields. After avoiding some sheep and a horse, we came across the payload on tenement of a field having narrowly missed some trees. We had done it! It had landed in.... Miles away from Leicester.<br />
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Then we had to drive all the way back to Pycon.<br />
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Here are some images from the payload and all the passengers safe and sound, who will be returned to their owners via the post this time.<br />
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I have to say thanks to James Robinson as without his help we wouldn't of been able to launch at all. He did all the phone calls and the important CAA paperwork. We has two members of other teams helping on the day as well, Richard you where great assisting back at base and helping on Twitter with updated. Alison you where great on the launch and the chase, without you Im sure we would be still on my wild goose chase, you where ace with a radio. Finally the thanks to rest of team Nimbus, Nick and Kirk who built, tested, chased and recovered. Also thanks to everyone one on Twitter who followed along.<br />
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So next we need to look at doing more launches involving the children in our schools, clubs and events. I'm looking forward to it. Now the challenge is going to be height!<br />
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Nic Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537722164761317048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419944618309730546.post-33785995073397212802015-07-16T23:06:00.000+00:002015-07-16T23:08:00.983+00:00Links to help videos for Scratch and Kodu - IBM Summer School - IBMCLC<b><u>Scratch</u></b><br />
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How to make a fish tank animation, fish tank game, race car game and a traffic light simulation<br />
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<br />Nic Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537722164761317048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419944618309730546.post-74857036778423267372015-07-16T22:49:00.002+00:002015-07-16T22:49:22.930+00:00Some Cool New Robots - IBM Summer School - IBMCLC - Some links.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Below are a list of links and images from the Robots that I brought along.<br />
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This is a robot that is from a company called Makeblock, it was originally a Kickstarter project.<br />
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You have to build the robot when you receive it and it fairly easy to do and has good instructions. Out of the box it is controlled by a small remote control. It has a number of built in inputs and outputs, light sensor, sonic sensor, 2 motors, a button, 2 LEDs, IR receiver, buzzer and i'm sure some more.<br />
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It can be connected wirelessly to the computer, you should choose the Wireless version as it is more reliable in a school setting.<br />
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It is programmed using a piece of software called mblock. It is a version of Scratch so every easy to use if you are familiar with it. It needs to be installed along with a driver installed.<br />
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For the price I think this is a super interesting robot. £60ish<br />
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<li>It has a remote for easy control. </li>
<li>Then once connected to the computer it can be programmed wirelessly. You can make it respond to the keyboard.</li>
<li>It can also be used to pass input back into the computer. So you can use the remote that you used to control the mbot to control something on screen</li>
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<a href="https://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/mbot-2-4g-version-scratch-programmable-robot.html">https://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/mbot-2-4g-version-scratch-programmable-robot.html </a> - Where it can be purchased in the UK.<br />
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<a href="http://www.makeblock.cc/">http://www.makeblock.cc/ </a> - The main site.<br />
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<a href="http://learn.makeblock.cc/mbot/">http://learn.makeblock.cc/mbot/</a> - A link to the main site about mbot.<br />
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<a href="http://www.technologyx.com/featured/makeblock-mbot-educational-stem-robot-overview/2/">This link</a> shows a review of the robot and some comparisons to other robots.<br />
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<b>Crumble</b><br />
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This is a small board that can be connected to motors, LEDS and other sensors. It only costs £10, the kit in the image above is £16.50<br />
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Today I had it connected up to a simple chassis with 2 motors and wheels attached. This is based on something that I had seen before where someone had using it in KS1.<br />
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It uses a simple scratch like interface for it to be programmed. You download the code to the crumble then it continue to run on the board. For example you can program the crumble to move motors in the shape of a square. You can also program lights to turn on and flash different colours. </div>
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<a href="http://redfernelectronics.co.uk/crumble/">http://redfernelectronics.co.uk/crumble/</a> - Link to main site with information and a getting started guide, you can also purchase them from the site.<br />
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<a href="http://code-it.co.uk/crumble/crumble.html">http://code-it.co.uk/crumble/crumble.html</a> - Links to more ideas.<br />
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<li>Cheap</li>
<li>Introduction to simple electronics.</li>
<li>Simple to program</li>
<li>Can be used for more than one project.</li>
<li>Introduction to wearable tech.</li>
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<b><u>Sphero</u></b><br />
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A round robot that can be remote controlled. It is has gyroscopic sensors in it. It is a toy but the creators have developed a number of apps that allow you to program it, they are Microlab and orbBasic, though interesting I feel they are quite complicated for primary.<br />
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But the Sphero paired with another app called Tickle, then it really unlocks possibilities. I have explored it somewhat. Tickle is another app in the style of Scratch or Hopscotch, you can make activities, games and more on the app, but what is really interesting is that it can connect to a range of devices.<br />
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Sphero is just one of them, along with Hue lightbulbs, it seems that Dash and Dot also are now supported which is great.<br />
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<a href="https://tickleapp.com/en-us/">https://tickleapp.com/en-us/</a> - Check out the website and a link to the apps.<br />
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font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">LINK</span></a></p><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 27px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.38;">Discussion: "Shall we unplug?"</span><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 27px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">What does unplugged mean? </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 27px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Look at the CS Unplugged resources.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; 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<br />Nic Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537722164761317048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419944618309730546.post-28194358698994898802014-04-29T22:32:00.002+00:002014-04-30T14:02:11.999+00:00Databases Yay!I know that databases always seem like a dry topic but today lesson was great all due to a really fun resource. It may be old news but I came across a resource called <a href="https://hwb.wales.gov.uk/cms/hwbcontent/_layouts/NGFLSolution/MaterialDescription.aspx?LearningMaterialId=38015&lang=en" target="_blank">Whodunnit</a> on the Wales HWB Page.<br />
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Its is a fairly simple database program that asks you to find suspects in crimes. You have to watch clips of interviews and then using the information narrow the search. It was a great introduction to the idea of interrogating a database.<br />
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<br />Nic Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537722164761317048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419944618309730546.post-4123568675421893002014-03-21T06:48:00.001+00:002014-03-21T06:48:03.704+00:00What is Computing at School all about?<b>Who is CAS? <a href="http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/">http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/</a></b><br />
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Its is a organisation who's job is to develop support and training for teaching Computing and in particular the computer science aspects of the new curriculum. They where one of the organisations who worked on the proposed curriculum and have been recently funded by the DfE.<br />
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<b>What is a Master Teacher? - Me, I'm one :o)</b><br />
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A teacher who has skills and expertise in the area of Computing and who wants to share this with others though running CPD session. Normally they will be involved in hub meeting but also they will run more specific training for teachers. <a href="http://community.computingatschool.org.uk/events">http://community.computingatschool.org.uk/events</a><br />
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Its is a community of teachers who come together to develop and share ideas for the teaching of computing. Its about helping and supporting one another. Different hubs can work in different ways but the important thing is that after a session you should leave excited and with a new idea to use back in school.<br />
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<br />Nic Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537722164761317048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419944618309730546.post-31061950020195928232014-03-06T12:48:00.000+00:002014-03-06T12:48:00.835+00:00One Great Teaching Idea - Camden CAS HubI have many ideas all the time.
But if I has to share one at the moment is to look at and use the code.org site. It is great, it has loads to great step by step guides and tutorials and links of where to go next to further explain your knowledge. Great for teachers and Pupils. <a href="http://code.org/"></a><br />
<a href="http://code.org/">http://code.org/</a>Nic Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537722164761317048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419944618309730546.post-5573274104777581982014-01-27T21:12:00.003+00:002014-01-27T21:12:36.584+00:00The FUZE<img alt="FUZE powered by Raspberry Pi (case & breadboard)" src="http://www.fuze.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/FUZE_Pi_Case_and_Breadboard_3-300x300.png" /><br />
The FUZE - Think a BBC Micro powered by a Pi. Once again these where spotted on a few stands at BETT. (A post BETT review is coming!) But <a href="http://www.agent4change.net/bett-week/hardware/2149-better-to-blow-a-fuze-than-a-raspberry-its-easier.html" target="_blank">Drew Buddie has written a great review of the new Fuze. </a><u> </u>It is a great solution for making the Pi work easily in the classroom.<br />
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A few tips.Nic Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13537722164761317048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419944618309730546.post-9856745188338927162013-04-30T07:32:00.000+00:002013-04-30T07:32:32.457+00:00Taking Creative Risks in the Classroom.<iframe frameborder="0" height="400" src="http://prezi.com/embed/10dbc977bd5d3aca139b446f216792bb54b2ff00/?bgcolor=ffffff&lock_to_path=1&autoplay=0&autohide_ctrls=0&features=undefined&disabled_features=undefined" width="550"></iframe><br />
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The whole place felt more open and this seems to allow for more talks that where far easier to find and then get into. The BETT arena was very cool.<br />
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TSS - had a lot of the normal fare of great little gadgets to place in children's hands - but the thing that grabbed my attention this time was a £400 table/notebook charging case. Not amazing but practical and cheap.<br />
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Lego Education had the new EV3 Mindstroms Kit on show and it was excellent. I want one now! Not the commercial kit the education one. It has extra sensors. Check out the video below of Gyro Boy. They have also updated their software and streamlined it in fact it looks more like the WeDo software. It had a great new feature where children can now add notes or observations to there programmes and teachers can set tasks/questions which they can respond to. It allows you to create your own activities.<br />
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I got very excited when I saw this robot walking around. Its called the Aldebaran. It had amazing abilities and a great piece of software top control it, it even had a puppet mode to allow easier programming. Unfortunately the price is prohibitive They are are cool £10,000 each!!!! No that's not a typo. Do check out the site though and watch a video about what they can do. <a href="http://www.active-robots.com/aldebaran" target="_blank">http://www.active-robots.com/aldebaran</a><br />
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On a similar programming theme, I went to the Cambridge University Press Stall to look at the Python Basics book they released recently. They had draft copies of the next two books to look at. They look great. I have already ordered mine from <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1107658551/ref=asc_df_110765855111725381?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&tag=hydra0b-21&linkCode=asn&creative=22206&creativeASIN=1107658551&hvpos=1o1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1107021835665125210&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=" target="_blank">Amazon</a>. More details here - <a href="http://www.codingclub.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.codingclub.co.uk/</a><br />
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Now some laptops and tablets. There where a lot around of these. Nothing jumped out at me, but some where pointed out to me later on. There was a nice Dell that had a flip over screen so it was both tablet and laptop.<br />
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After some advice from <a href="http://antsict.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Antony Evans</a> I was eager to try our the app Pic Collage with my class today.<br />
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The lesson itself already had the outcome of creating a poster to think about how we handle anger. So after playing with this great app that allows you to place images, text and stickers on a page just like a poster I was hooked.<br />
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The children where give the task of taking a photo of themselves angry and happy and explain how we know we are angry and how we can stay happy. The example below shows what I created to show the idea, the images where inserted from inside the app using a Google image search tool.<br />
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They had 15 minutes to complete this task in groups of 3. I spent 1 minute explaining the app and then set them to work. A few children asked a few questions about how to add text but the children took to the app quickly and all expect one group produced a poster. Considering this was the first time this class had used the iPads as a whole class is worked extremal well. A simple app with a clear task helped to make this successful. We shared the work by emailing them to a blog where they auto posted - we will come back and review them next week. Here are two examples.<br />
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I'd recommend this app as a quick way to create record events using photos in class. Could science experiences be recorded this way?<br />
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Now until recently it has focused on each class telling the
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investigating and telling each other about our local area. This has linked to Dover’s
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For our first session we had the children researching interesting places within
a mile of their school. I tried to do this as a field tip but due to weather it
was done virtually using ipads and Google street view - more on this in another
post. The children produced short PowerPoint’s of the interesting areas which
we could show. The classes then met and presented what they had found. We each
focused on 10 facts and asked questions. It was a great session where we learnt
a lot. We tried to display the images over the VC camera but this was a slow
process for some reason. Dover had already sent me their presentation as they
didn’t have the ability to send the PowerPoint image though their camera. We
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Then both Ashley and I did some teaching of each other’s
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with me teaching a class. So Ashley went first and without her class present taught my
class about the history of Westlake. I had a PowerPoint of images that I had to
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the session. I asked her class about the pictures and then told them about
them. It was a great session and the VC camera allowed me to easily interact
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Finally as part of this local area work we met on Friday to
give a list of similarities and differences about our two areas. This was based
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Our final session was for the year was just before half term - they have not gone on summer break. We though our discussions discovered that we both where learning recorder. So each class played a few tunes to each other. We also discussed some of the things we would be doing over our summer breaks.</div>
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This was the end of a great 4 week literacy topic all about super heroes and super villains. I ran this last year after seeing a talk about it at a LIME conference last year by Andy Dickenson. @Andyisatwork Credit to him coming up with the idea and finding the art work. Videos are my versions of his idea.<br />
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We started with the whole of the year group in the hall - stickers either a Team Hero or League of Evil and showed this video to get them thinking. We discussed what superheroes and super villains where and designed and created our own characters with their posers and abilities. The children where encouraged to think about heroes with gadgets as well.<br />
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We did some role play and by the end of the week where applying to join either the League of Evil or Team Hero.<br />
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The children where accepted into Team Hero or League of Evil. This week we wrote diary entries and Newspaper reports on all the adventures and hijinks that happened. Diamonds where rescued , gold was stolen and roads flooded. We supported this with drama work.<br />
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We wrote a story about an adventure that we had had. The children had to pair up with a counterpart and decided that could when a plan was stolen. Wy did the Villain try and take it? How did you stop it. We did some drama work based on this and then wrote diaries or newspaper reports on the event.<br />
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We where also lucky enough to have an Illustrator, Amanda Pollard come into school to talk about how to illustrate. This lead into out final weeks work. <a href="http://illustratedbyamanda.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Check out her blog.</a><br />
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<b>Week 4</b><br />
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We had thought about our characters Origins for homework, so this week the children turned these ideas into a comic book story. They where planned the drawn, inked and then coloured. I'll update this later with our finished work next week,<br />
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