Monthly Archives: December 2025

InFindingOut (IFO) / Tech To Help (TTH)

Classroom Brainwaves!

The NeuroSky Mindwave unit has proven to be fascinating for many of the pupils that I teach. 

This was important, as part of the InFindingOut project is around self-assessment by young people of their wellbeing, inspired by the use of biometrics.

 We will soon by adding further sensing options – each one provides a small sample of data that can then encourage the young person to engage more fully with a meaningful measurement of their own mental and physical wellbeing.

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December 12, 2025
Digital Writes / Marvellous Musical Machine

World Premiere of the MMM!

Today marked the final session of Marvellous Musical Machine at the Lydiard Park Academy ASC. 

This first cohort of six boys have been astoundingly capable and a total delight to work with. Keith and I will miss their enthusiasm and wonderful ideas.

Here then is their finished work…

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December 8, 2025
Art of Conversation

AoC Animation

Having voted last week to create animated insects that live on mushrooms, this week we filmed short animated sequences.

The wonderful Year 9 crew at Crowdy’s used the insects that they had drawn. It was a joy and a privilege to see their engagement with this task.

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December 4, 2025
Digital Writes / Marvellous Musical Machine

Marvellous Musical Machine 1 nears completion

As our first cohort near completion of their machine – here is a little clip featuring the use of MakeCode Arcade for musical composition.

To see the whole Marvellous Musical Machine journey to date, please visit: www.flickernet.net/mmm

The grand premiere of their performance film will be on Monday 8th December. 

We will be moving on to the Ridgeway ASC early in the new year , where are looking forward to working with Will and his team to build the second Marvellous Musical Machine. 

To celebrate the creation of our first MMM, we have created a new logo!

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December 2, 2025
Resources / tech_ventures

Quiz Machine

Fun in Bishopstone today creating what we are calling Quiz Machines!

These are based on MicroBits, Bit Commanders and View screens – the same equipment that we are using to build the ChoiceBoxes at Crowdy’s – but this time they act as “fastest finger first” devices that transmit to the Receiving Unit the team name followed by the answer.

We plan to develop them so that they can toggle between multiple choice and written answer as well as keeping a score electronically.

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December 2, 2025

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