I've been back at school for a week now and have started to get to know my new students. The great thing is that they know I love working with computers, so they were very keen to start using Scratch and making animations with I Can Animate!
I'd done a bit of Scratch with them the previous year so we went into the computer suite and I got them to show me what they had done with their projects since. They soon started adding to them and didn't want to stop when it was time to finish. I pitched the idea to them of making a project about themselves and the school and sharing it with similarly aged students in Massachusetts and they were genuinely excited by the idea. Good news!
The photograph of the Scratch Cat in Lego went down well as did the Lego model of the MSL, Curiosity. They want to make their own.
My Raspberry Pi User Guide arrived on my Kindle so I'll delve I little deeper into that. The question: how can I best use it in school? Scratch, physical computing, Python...
I'd done a bit of Scratch with them the previous year so we went into the computer suite and I got them to show me what they had done with their projects since. They soon started adding to them and didn't want to stop when it was time to finish. I pitched the idea to them of making a project about themselves and the school and sharing it with similarly aged students in Massachusetts and they were genuinely excited by the idea. Good news!
The photograph of the Scratch Cat in Lego went down well as did the Lego model of the MSL, Curiosity. They want to make their own.
My Raspberry Pi User Guide arrived on my Kindle so I'll delve I little deeper into that. The question: how can I best use it in school? Scratch, physical computing, Python...