Category Archives: education

Getting to grips with the mouse

Posted on September 27, 2017 by blogmywiki

I’ve recently found myself with the challenge of teaching Reception age children Computing not in their own classroom, but in a traditional ICT suite with desks, PCs, keyboards and mice that actually aren’t even designed for Year 6 children, they … Continue reading →

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Rediscovering Flotilla

Posted on July 19, 2017 by blogmywiki

Back in 2015 I backed Pimoroni’s Flotilla modular physical computing devices on Kickstarter and got an early set. I had some fun exploring it, but the software and support materials weren”t quite ready at the time and I started a … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi Wiimote Paint

Posted on July 17, 2017 by blogmywiki

People have done some cool stuff controlling Raspberry Pi robots with Nintendo Wiimotes. Now I don’t have any robot bits, but I do have an old Wii sitting unloved upstairs, so I found the remote, put batteries in it and … Continue reading →

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Robot poetry and storytelling in Scratch

Posted on July 11, 2017 by blogmywiki

There’s nothing new under the sun, and this is an old idea that went down incredibly well: generating random stories and poems by picking random words from word banks. I am grateful for my former colleague Cassie Wise for suggesting … Continue reading →

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Simplest Scratch game?

Posted on July 10, 2017 by blogmywiki

Give a group of Year 9 girls the option to do some coding or watch a film at the end of term, and you think they’d want to watch a film. Well not the last ever class I taught at … Continue reading →

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