Category Archives: ICT

Teaching Sonic Pi

Posted on March 1, 2016 by blogmywiki

I’ve been teaching my first ever lessons with Sonic Pi this week. Sonic Pi blurs the distinction between learning / teaching coding and music. I’ve been wanting to do this since I had my world turned slightly upside down by … Continue reading →

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Python activity – recreate Matisse’s Snail

Posted on February 22, 2016 by blogmywiki

  Here’s a fun lesson with Python Turtle graphics I did with my Year 7s. They had done some Python before – mainly stuff with loops, making and breaking Caesar cyphers, but I think it’s fair to say that they … Continue reading →

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Pimoroni Flotilla – first impressions

Posted on December 24, 2015 by blogmywiki

Hot on the heels of my official Raspberry Pi SenseHAT, Mr Postman brought me the Pimoroni Flotilla. I got this early because I backed it on Kickstarter, ooh quite a long time ago now, and I’d almost forgotten about it. … Continue reading →

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Is the BBC Microbit project fatally damaged?

Posted on December 14, 2015 by blogmywiki

In September 2015 I was very excited to be starting a job teaching KS3 Computing and ICT at the time when the BBC Microbit was being given, free of charge, to every Year 7 child in the country – or … Continue reading →

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Python & Scratch Bubble sorts for KS3

Posted on October 26, 2015 by blogmywiki

Here’s a bubble sort I knocked up to help teach bubble sorts in Year 9. Before we get to this point we will have looked at Hungarian folk-dancing bubble sorts, done a bubble sort ourselves in class with human numbers … Continue reading →

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