CTEC Video Wall
Welcome to the Year 12 Cambridge Technicals IT Course. This video selection is for you:
https://www.flickernet.net/ctec1
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September 18, 2020
Python place
September 15, 2020
Computer Science Video Wall
This link is for my new Year 10 CS students. These videos are to help with the content of the Edexcel course
September 12, 2020
Polygon universe
Back in the day there was a space flight simulator that created a huge field of destinations in which to explore, trade and navigate – if you would like to try it out, here is an emulator and the original .exe:
September 8, 2020
Robot Review
July 9, 2020
Transition Group for new arrivals
Welcome to all of the Year 6 pupils who will shortly be joining us in Year 7.
A complete collection of recent school video guidance and your Transition Booklets are available here:
July 9, 2020
Escape Room – Online
We have been experimenting with the creation of an online escape room!
The first puzzle is the hardest. Here is a clue to help to get you going:
line / word / letter
It is here, good luck!
July 9, 2020
Code Club for 2021
Looking ahead to next academic year, it seems likely that we will need to delay resuming Code Club until Term 3, although there is a chance that we can find a way to meet safely in a larger classroom ahead of that.
Please keep an eye on www.flickernet.net/codeclub for updates.
In the meantime congratulations to Ryan P (Year 9) who has a wide range of Scratch 3 games featured on the site.
July 9, 2020
The Computer Museum in Swindon
Where old tech is made available for all to enjoy again. We loved it.
February 22, 2020
Code Club 2020
Our new Code Club will be starting at LPA next week!
It is invitation only this term (starting with KS3, helped by three KS5)
The links page is here
January 1, 2020
the 50p bunny is all ears
This is the big blue bunny rabbit that our children spotted whilst on holiday in Dorset. It was for sale for the quite reasonable price of 50p. After some debate over who would be making the purchase, he was presently in the bag / saved from landfill / one of the family.
The parting words of the stall holder rang in my ears, a clarion call to action: “you can connect your phone to it and stuff”
what stuff I wondered. What might it be capable of?
A google later and I had the app. The connection was made to the bunny but there was another connection to make, this time to a news story:
theregister.co.uk/2017/03/01/cloudpets_woes_worsen_mics_can_be_pwned/
oh dear. The batteries were swiftly removed.
Now in the depths of winter I have taken the final step to remedy matters for my son to enjoy his improbably treasured bunny:
and sew it ends!
December 30, 2019
A Level Normalisation Session
Sometimes chopping a database up and sorting into into 1st, 2nd and 3rd normal form on the very floor works best!
December 30, 2019
Pi 4 in action
Demonstrating automated systems to Year 9 with a Raspberry Pi 4, breadboard mounted PIR and resulting monkey on patrol.!
December 1, 2019
Picademy
A full weekend of study at Bath University. Being presented with the opportunities and the potential of Raspberry Pi by those who know it best. My thanks to Dan, Mark, Laura and Alan for an amazing time.
December 1, 2019
Radio Phone
Dad loved this phone. I used to get in trouble for borrowing it. Before there were “cordless” phones and well before many people had mobile phones, this was an early “I’m in the garden” device.!
December 1, 2019
Plickers in Science
Popping into a Year 7 Science lesson I was perplexed to find all the pupils elevating laminated symbols above their heads as their teacher held her phone up to scan the scene.
The data promptly appeared on the white board at the front. This was my first taste of Plickers in action – now I am keen to give it a go!
December 1, 2019
1998, a starter
The wonderfully talented Year 13 A Level Computer Science class that I teach weren’t quite sure what to make of my scrawled starter question: what happened in 1998?
They made some great suggestions (considering that this occurred comprehensively before their birth!), but what I remember of 1998 is that the idea started to formulate in my mind that not everyone was going to grasp what computers were all about in time to join the rapidly approaching Twenty First Century.
Flickernet arrived in December 1999.
Twenty years on it is clear to me that the need for Computer Education, in all its forms, is as urgent today as it was back then.
December 1, 2019
Washroom Screen
There is something fascinating revealed on those rare occasions when computer hardware (here at Heathrow) reveals what it is really thinking.!
December 1, 2019
NCCE Certification
- Just to round off the training that I have been fortunate to receive recently: the NCCE Certificate in Computer Science Subject Knowledge has come through. Julia kindly presented me with it at BCS HQ.
December 1, 2019
BCS Certified!
Delighted to record that I have been awarded the BCS Certificate in Secondary Computer Science Teaching – my thanks to LPA for providing the experience and guidance to achieve this key qualification.
As a separate, but related, enterprise I have also been made a STEM facilitator for the National Centre for Computing Excellence (NCCE). This means that I can help to deliver the new NCCE curriculum.
December 1, 2019
English Scratch / debating
We recorded our responses to pupil debating using an agreement / disagreement selector on the screen of each pupil: as persuasion shifts the balance, so the background colour indicates the viewpoint of each pupil around the room.
December 1, 2019
Robot Update
After a little father and son time, the latest iteration of the Garage Robot is born! Upon being shared as the designated show-and-tell item, the spinning motor jams on, resulting in a scene of suitable chaos in the classroom with the robot determinedly making the most of its chance to take a turn at the front!
December 1, 2019
fish frenzy
The high security screen saver has been compromised: busy hands have been adding fish galore!
at least these fish can’t be overfed.!
November 30, 2019
