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Joanne

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Hi guys,

 

just wondering if anyone does an ICT club and what do you do? I've been asked to start one. I have a couple of ideas, but don't want it to be too boring.

 

1) Animation using a program called Monkey Jam.

2) Some sort of image manipulation? Get the kids to "photoshop" themselves with a celebrity? Probably using powerpoint because of the picture format feature job.

 

I have a raspberry pi on back order and a robotic arm to go with it. Also got Lego WeDo coming shortly.

 

The kids I'm going to be working with are Year 4, sooo 8-9 year olds.

 

I'm not great at stuff like this, but if any of you have done it before and the kids have loved it, I'm willing to have a go.

 

ps/ I have full support from teachers and stuff - please no comments about that!

 

THANKS!

Joanne

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Nope, but there will be a teacher in with me. I am like the bridge between the teachers, all the amazing equipment we have and the kids and making sure the kids get the full benefit from all the expensive, cool stuff I am buying :p
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Our lunch club is turning into "Minecraft club".

 

It's annoying because they're using the web [Java/Flash] version, which fills their home directory [%appdata% to be specific] with files...

 

I was looking into Minetest a while back, but haven't had the change to test it with them.

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hallb15

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Hi guys,

 

just wondering if anyone does an ICT club and what do you do? I've been asked to start one. I have a couple of ideas, but don't want it to be too boring.

 

1) Animation using a program called Monkey Jam.

2) Some sort of image manipulation? Get the kids to "photoshop" themselves with a celebrity? Probably using powerpoint because of the picture format feature job.

 

I have a raspberry pi on back order and a robotic arm to go with it. Also got Lego WeDo coming shortly.

 

The kids I'm going to be working with are Year 4, sooo 8-9 year olds.

 

I'm not great at stuff like this, but if any of you have done it before and the kids have loved it, I'm willing to have a go.

 

ps/ I have full support from teachers and stuff - please no comments about that!

 

THANKS!

 

I've been asked to do the same thing! I've agreed to it as long as there is a member of teaching or support staff in the room with me.

Does your school have an Espresso subscription? Their coding section is really good:

Espresso Education - Espresso Coding - a brand new service from Espresso

Its free for a while too - I love a bargain ;)

 

I've been looking at the computing curriculum and its more about programming and control, rather than the traditional cut and paste images from google into a MS product!

 

I think I'm going to concentrate on real world stuff - I might get them re-imaging the Fizzbooks as they need doing at least once a month :)

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abillybob

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I got asked to do a club after school I declined. Unless they are going to higher my salary I'll do what my job description tells me to do - well in fact I already do above and beyond that - point being be careful what you say yes to. You don't want to become a walking doormat where the staff expect to ask you to do something and you will always say yes!
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I have been doing a club with some of the higher level year 2s going through some coding with them. They used espresso coding to begin with but it was to easy for them. I now have them creating some little games in scratch and they are taking to it well I hope to eventually to have them create their own game from designing it to then creating it and sharing it to the other members of their class.
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Bompalompalomp

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I run one, but I turned down the extra pay because the kids can be unreliable on coming and I can be unreliable on caring enough to do it, so it's hit and miss occassionally.

 

I only do it with year 6 because those are the only ones I can bear to talk to for more than 10 minutes. I have a group of 5-6 girls who sometimes I teach about computers, networks, programming (scratch/bit of python), computer components, etc.

 

Tomorrow I'm having them disassemble a computer and see if they can put it together and make it boot :) (I needed an excuse to throw it out anyway...)

 

Year 4s I'd only really trust with software, but see how they handle Scratch and Pi stuff! Scratch especially, give them a rundown of what the different types of blocks do and a task like a simple game or an animation.

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I run one, but I turned down the extra pay because the kids can be unreliable on coming and I can be unreliable on caring enough to do it, so it's hit and miss occassionally.

 

I only do it with year 6 because those are the only ones I can bear to talk to for more than 10 minutes. I have a group of 5-6 girls who sometimes I teach about computers, networks, programming (scratch/bit of python), computer components, etc.

 

Tomorrow I'm having them disassemble a computer and see if they can put it together and make it boot :) (I needed an excuse to throw it out anyway...)

 

Year 4s I'd only really trust with software, but see how they handle Scratch and Pi stuff! Scratch especially, give them a rundown of what the different types of blocks do and a task like a simple game or an animation.

 

Im sorry WHAT! You turned down extra pay.... :hand:

Bompalompalomp

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Im sorry WHAT! You turned down extra pay.... :hand:

 

Only because they said if I don't track my hours right I'd be in s***...

 

I don't trust myself.

 

- - - Updated - - -

 

Bompalompalomp's only 18. She'll learn one day. :p

 

Nineteen! And get ponyluna back!

Bompalompalomp

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So.....? Track your hours man! God DAYUM!

 

hahahahaha... Oh, you were serious.

 

I think it was really little anyway considering I only get to do it for about forty minutes max each time, and most days I can't be bothered and want to eat my soup in the staff room or play dorf fort for my lunchtime.

 

THAT BEING SAID... My kids are great. I'd feel like I was conning the school if I was being paid for it, because half the time I just use them for slave labour. "Put these cases on the iPads, install these, write me a newsletter! Hey can you guys check if this works? Okay now go play on the iPads, whatever."

 

Back on track though, I've found that as long as you make it fun they don't care what they learn. I once had them playing Pitfall from https://archive.org/details/consolelivingroom while telling them about the history of home PCs and consoles. Ended up with one of the kids having an epiphany. "Temple Run TOTALLY ripped this game off!!"

 

I haven't managed to wrangle a Pi or two yet (and I think it might be worth waiting for the rumoured new one), but it's probably one of the best ways you can teach them some early programming and introducing an OS other than Windows...

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Pfft 10 here bro.

 

Seems that I don't even lift, brosideon.

 

I've had them sitting in my office for ages... Tempted to steal borrow one.

Joanne

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I've been asked to do the same thing! I've agreed to it as long as there is a member of teaching or support staff in the room with me.

Does your school have an Espresso subscription? Their coding section is really good:

Espresso Education - Espresso Coding - a brand new service from Espresso

Its free for a while too - I love a bargain ;)

 

I've been looking at the computing curriculum and its more about programming and control, rather than the traditional cut and paste images from google into a MS product!

 

I think I'm going to concentrate on real world stuff - I might get them re-imaging the Fizzbooks as they need doing at least once a month :)

 

Yeah got espresso coding. I saw it being taught to some Year 2's a few weeks back, so might be interesting to see if the older kids know it. Then we can progress to scratch and KoDu.

 

hahahahaha... Oh, you were serious.

 

I think it was really little anyway considering I only get to do it for about forty minutes max each time, and most days I can't be bothered and want to eat my soup in the staff room or play dorf fort for my lunchtime.

 

THAT BEING SAID... My kids are great. I'd feel like I was conning the school if I was being paid for it, because half the time I just use them for slave labour. "Put these cases on the iPads, install these, write me a newsletter! Hey can you guys check if this works? Okay now go play on the iPads, whatever."

 

Back on track though, I've found that as long as you make it fun they don't care what they learn. I once had them playing Pitfall from https://archive.org/details/consolelivingroom while telling them about the history of home PCs and consoles. Ended up with one of the kids having an epiphany. "Temple Run TOTALLY ripped this game off!!"

 

I haven't managed to wrangle a Pi or two yet (and I think it might be worth waiting for the rumoured new one), but it's probably one of the best ways you can teach them some early programming and introducing an OS other than Windows...

 

The head teacher has recommended that we do games to keep the kids interested. Then probably moving on to making their own.

 

Our lunch club is turning into "Minecraft club".

 

It's annoying because they're using the web [Java/Flash] version, which fills their home directory [%appdata% to be specific] with files...

 

I was looking into Minetest a while back, but haven't had the change to test it with them.

 

I might look into this. User profiles are locally stored, so shouldn't be too much of an issue... I wouldn't have thought!

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I might look into this. User profiles are locally stored, so shouldn't be too much of an issue... I wouldn't have thought!

 

If "My Documents > My Settings > application data" is a network location, it's going to get filled.

 

If it's all local, go for it.

 

 

We had some issues with a few pupils unable to save any work because they'd used all their space up due to minecraft.

 

If it is on the network, you could always just script it to delete the .Minecraft folder at logoff.

Joanne

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I've ordered a full on pi kit from cpc, but it still hasn't arrived yet :(

 

Read my book that I got with it...

 

I has a sad.

Joanne

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If "My Documents > My Settings > application data" is a network location, it's going to get filled.

 

If it's all local, go for it.

 

 

We had some issues with a few pupils unable to save any work because they'd used all their space up due to minecraft.

 

If it is on the network, you could always just script it to delete the .Minecraft folder at logoff.

 

Ahhhh nooo... documents are redirected. Thanks for the heads up though!!

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Ahhhh nooo... documents are redirected. Thanks for the heads up though!!

 

Look into Minetest.

 

I set up a few things here to auto-fill usernames [minetest name = username] and log chat in case someone makes a complaint over something that was allegedly said.

 

You can run it from a network location [or locally, which I suggest] and set one to act as a server for the entire group.

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mikeyd101

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I run a tech club wed and fri lunchtimes. I started with coding and computational thinking I found a couple of good resources as an intro to it playing games / solving puzzles.

 

Anybody can learn | Code.org - this also has a teacher sign up were you can have a teacher account and track kids progress

CodeMonkey - similar to code.org but has them actually writing some code

Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share - a few kids have just started this and have them writing a simple rock/paper/scissor game

 

a few others im hoping to move onto are:

 

Greenfoot - java IDE / Library for writing games aimed at kids with a community for sharing.

BlueJ

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

 

some others that I also want to look at:

 

Learn to code | Codecademy and CodingBat Java

 

I also plan to look into other tech areas 3D Drawing (sketchup) in preparation for making a stronger case to get a 3D printer and some music production using DAWs.

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