VTC 2014 and Cyberparenting
VTC 2014 I recently came back from the second annual Vietnam Tech Conference at United Nations International School (UNIS) in Hanoi (@VietnamTechConf), where I led a workshop entitled ‘Effective Web...
View ArticleHumming bird duos getting started
Students enjoy getting started with the hummingbird duo kit and the SNAP programming environment.
View ArticleSenior Students firing up Hummingbird Duo
They quickly wrote a SNAP! program to increase and decrease the intensity of an LED.
View ArticlePlaying with Makey Makey : Masters weekly project
I’m currently on my last elective class of the Masters in Educational Technology with Boise State, that class being ‘Maker Tech’. The pad uses foil as the conductive material and consists the major C...
View ArticleNew toys arrived
More new goodies have arrived to aid our Computing and Robotics program! First up is Sphero. I’m interested in the SPRK edition and the educational resources on the Sphero website – the first step was...
View ArticleReflections on Learning 2 Asia 2016
I was grateful for the chance to attend the learning2 Asia conference this year. After many years of following this conference remotely through hash tags and the like I finally had a chance to go,...
View ArticleK-12 Computer Science Framework
“A literacy for the 21st century”. This kind of framework is well needed for creating an international standard surrounding the teaching of computer science. As a British IT teacher a lot of my units...
View ArticleInteractive Poster with Makey Makey
Prepared for tomorrow’s teacher PD session: An introduction to Scratch and Makey Makey. I chose a ‘parts of speech’ poster as a model for this. Each button simple plays a voice recording I made in...
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