Category Archives: ICT

First steps with Kano

Posted on March 23, 2014 by blogmywiki

A new cute-looking Raspberry Pi kit and OS? That’s what Kano claims to offer – a rather spiffy kit containing a Raspberry Pi, wireless keyboard & trackpad, OS on SD card, wifi adaptor, speaker, power supply and a nice case … Continue reading →

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Using Scratch to make teaching resources

Posted on March 8, 2014 by blogmywiki

Sometimes I can spend hours searching TES and other web sites for the right interactive teaching resource. This week I was teaching direction, quarter and half turns to Year 2 and I wanted something I could use on the interactive … Continue reading →

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Adding an LED to the internet printer

Posted on April 29, 2013 by blogmywiki

Sometimes I’m not sure if my little Raspberry Pi-powered GoFreeRange internet printer is actually working or not – the Raspberry Pi is hidden inside the box, and you can’t usually see the onboard LEDs. Today I thought my printer had … Continue reading →

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How to Build a Little Box of Poems

Posted on October 21, 2012 by blogmywiki

I wanted to build a little internet printer, spewing out weather and tweets and the like. When I was testing my thermal printer, however, I got bored reading sample text and replaced it with a short poem. And that gave … Continue reading →

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The Porthcurno Museum of Submarine Telegraphy

Posted on August 25, 2012 by blogmywiki

My favourite museum in the whole wide world has to be the Porthcurno Museum of Submarine Telegraphy in Cornwall. Porthcurno has a fascinating history – undersea telegraph cables joined Victorian Britain to the Empire and beyond, coming up on the … Continue reading →

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