kaphc

https://jobs.derbyshire.gov.uk/jobdetails.asp?jobid=46640 This job is for Derbyshire County Council and is advertised on their website. I do not have any further details.

https://jobs.derbyshire.gov.uk/jobdetails.asp?jobid=46794 This has been my very first IT in Education job ... it's only 6 hours a week, 39 weeks per year, but that may just be what someone is looking for. The school is fantastic, I cannot praise it highly enough and if anyone wants to know more, please PM me.

Ah ... just done a single machine test (Windows 7, 32-bit) and it does include Adobe AIR but something corrupts in the install. It's signposted from Scratch's download section too, so thought it stood a good chance of being legit. Might be worth testing in another environment to see if it's just us!

Not sure if I'm late to the party with this, but there's an MSI file for Scratch 2.0 at Scratch MSI by LLK I haven't tested yet ... has anyone else used it?

Thanks to all at Edugeek for the brill AFK pin badge and the great networking and meeting up. Working as a lone tech, it's easy to forget that this forum is full of lovely people who really do understand what's going on - plus the great team of mods who do so much behind the scenes to keep everything running smoothly. THANK YOU everyone for a great community.

Lol ... I got off lightly :-)

@robk I'm there on the Friday although from 11 - 3 I will be fulfilling my corporate obligations for the stand which is paying my train fare and buying me lunch :-)

Hehe, I bet they do! I approached the stand last year with a cheery hello to be met with a doubtful "are you an Edugeeker?". Fortunately either you or witch were there to vouch for me :-) I must've been wearing the wrong perfume that day lol!!

Ok so when I approach the Edugeek stand looking like the least likely Edugeeker ever I will flash my edugeek lanyard or something as a sign it is really me ;-) Cos I flipping love those badges!

Kaphc -> Friday (also to be found presenting on the Education City stand at 11.30 and 2.30 ... hecklers welcome!)

I will be at BETT all day on the Friday so looking forward to meeting up with a few folk then! Thanks for adding me to the Whatsapp group also.

Awesome socks!! I can be a Tech Queen wearing those! Thank you @VeryPC

+1 for disassembling a computer. When I've done this, it works well by first asking children to predict what they think they are going to see inside - they will usually come up with ideas such as batteries, wires, lights, magnets.Then I'd take the case off and see how many of their predictions are correct. Next, I'd point out the processor, RAM, hard drive, motherboard, data busses etc - if you have a visualiser or iPad you can Aiplay, it helps to have this projected onto a whiteboard or screen to make it bigger as it can be quite hard otherwise for kids to see everything. Then you can hand over to the teacher to do a task such as making a poster or diagram of the inside of a computer and labelling the key parts. I use a site such as http://computer.howstuffworks.com/pc1.htm for the technical definitions of things, but make it more child friendly by describing the hard drive with a storage analogy, the RAM being not like human memory because it is completely wiped when you switch the computer off, and the processor as the engine which does all the work. This is a bit over-simplified, but I find a level of abstraction is needed at primary level so as to give an overview without getting too technical.

There are a lot of activities which can be delivered "unplugged" as well, e.g. search algorithms, sorting algorithms etc. Coding has taken the headlines for the new curriculum, but underlying concept which pulls all the curriculum together is Computational Thinking. A lot of the skills for this are learned through coding but also through teamwork, activities and challenges as well.

Have a look at Code Club | Home - register for a club and you can access all the resources, from an after-school club register to comprehensive instructions for coding activities in Scratch, Python, Html and CSS.

My favourite tool has got to be a pot of nail varnish. Comes in really handy for identifying netbooks / iPads for different use with different software or numbering class equipment. I use Clarins nail varnish as well so it's good stuff :-)

@VeryPC_Colin_M you are awarding bonus entries for making you giggle, right? :-)

Lol, I love the assumption that because I'm a lady, I have dainty feet :-) *disclaimer* I really AM a lady, not in the David Walliams sense but I do have size 8 plates of meat :-)

*pops head up from behind a rock* I'm in ... though I bet we've already had the conversation about ladies sock sizes!!!

Ah I see .... I think I'd go with my own environment if I could but it depends how much time would be spent putting things right if they go wrong lol! I have set up a school website in Wordpress (http://www.fritchleyprimaryschool.co.uk) so I am relatively ok with the front end - it's the bit underneath that drives it all which I need to learn - is this what I could access if I took up your kind offer?

Hi Bananas You may just be getting me hooked on this idea. Can I just check - is it a two-step process? 1) Set up a hosting process. Does this have to be a Wordpress hosting service like this? https://www.123-reg.co.uk/web-hosting/wordpress.shtml 2) Then set up the LAMP environment. Could I do this on a Windows desktop (whilst giving myself a crash course in Ubuntu?) Thanks Katharine

I'm starting to like the idea of having our own webserver in school to run this if I can find a spare machine to load up. How many of these installs were done in primary schools - just trying to gauge whether it's achievable?

Is this for Unit 5.5 We are bloggers? We're going to use Primaryblogger to have a blog for each class which they can add to as they go which is Wordpress based, and still means they can use the Dashboard tools, HTML editting etc. without having to host Wordpress. Each pupil has to have their own account which we've done via gmail addresses at the moment. We've been trialling this this year and so far it's worked pretty well.

We either print to an Airprint enabled printer (most of the newers ones are) whereby the iPad just "picks up" the printer over the wireless network. Or we download the manufacturers app - Sharp and Ricoh both do a free app which you can configure to print to over the wireless network as well.

Fingers crossed for you!