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- An evening with Year 3 for their sleepover at school. Brings back memories of boarding duty.10:53 AM Jul 3rd from Tweetie
- Dress rehearsal time for the leavers' play.6:03 AM Jul 2nd from Tweetie
- Making a start on proofreading this year's reports. This is going to take some time...4:01 AM Jun 28th from Tweetie
- At school for the summer fête. Good day for it.4:52 AM Jun 27th from Tweetie
- Long time, no tweet. Been snowed under with work for yesterday's Presentation Afternoon - went very well; widely regarded as a great success1:13 AM Jun 25th from web
- #CAS09 "Computer programming is a powerful tool for children to 'learn leaning' that is to learn the skills of thinking and problem solving"6:48 AM Jun 19th from web
- #CAS09 Other tools: GeomLab, Kara (finite state machine), Kodu (Xbox, program via the gamepad!), rapunsel, , gamestar mechanic6:45 AM Jun 19th from web
- #CAS09 StarLogo TNG (semi open licence) - building block interface again, lends itself to modelling exercises (KS3 curriculum).6:39 AM Jun 19th from web
- #CAS09 Alice- serious programming, but no syntax worries, big step up from gamemaker because 3D. Roger says not really useable before KS4.6:32 AM Jun 19th from web
- #CAS09 Gamemaker- looks great and motivting, but isn't open source and only runs on Windows :-(6:30 AM Jun 19th from web
- @iusher Thnks Ian; looks great. Posted it on #osschools early this morning ;-)6:29 AM Jun 19th from web in reply to iusher
- #CAS09 Watching Alan Kay's TED talk on Squeak eToys. Now moving on to Scratch- connections with Mindstorms too.6:20 AM Jun 19th from web
- #CAS09 Proganimate : constructs the code (in various languages) from a flowchart. Allows you to watch variables.6:13 AM Jun 19th from web
- @Emmadw there's a list of some in the Computing at Schools google group; you'd need to register though. I'll email you Roger's list later.6:11 AM Jun 19th from web in reply to Emmadw
- #CAS09 logo - visual environment allows children to see the program working; but variables and syntax are barriers; even worse with VB!6:08 AM Jun 19th from web
- #CAS09 Roger Davies on a huge range of free tool for teaching programming; starting with LightBot6:03 AM Jun 19th from web
- #CAS09 Simon Peyton-Jones talking about Computing at Schools: possible launch of UK CSTA... Not to replicate support for ICT teachers5:42 AM Jun 19th from web
- @andylockran Moodle gives more control over data and functionality, is used worldwide and across all phases. Excellent support network. Free5:38 AM Jun 19th from web in reply to andylockran
- #CAS09 Greenfoot programming competition, online gallery, freely distributable code: really nice way to introduce students to open source!4:40 AM Jun 19th from web
- #CAS09 You choose the level of abstraction the students are exposed to by preparing scenarios in advance: teacher creates, students develop4:12 AM Jun 19th from web
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- Name Miles Berry
- Location Godalming, England
- Web http://milesberry...
- Bio Head at a Hampshire prep school, education technologist (social technology and learning), former mathematician, open source advocate
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