Author: Colin

  • Computing At School Scotland Conference 2012

    Today, I attended the first Computing at School’s Scotland Conference in Edinburgh.  This was a marvellous event on many levels. It was over subscribed, yet over 100 Computing Teachers paid £20 probably their own money plus travelling expenses to give up their Saturday to meet with each other to try and progress their own subject. […]

  • Reflection App Test

    http://www.eduk8.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ReflectorApps1.mov I’ve purchased a great app called reflection which allows me to screen record my iPad and show it on my Mac.  This is great as a teaching tool. More Soon!

  • Raspberry Pi – First Boot

    After registering with RS Components and Element 14/Farnell on the launch day of the Raspberry Pi way back in February I can finally report that the second of the Raspberry Pi’s have been delivered today. This was just in time as one of the those which I ordered I was giving to a friend of […]

  • Raspberry Pi and Scottish Software developments in Education

    Where do I expect my use of the Raspberry Pi to go? Well there has been much play of the use of the Raspberry Pi to re-establish programming amongst youngsters in school and the need to bring back computing in school. This issue is different for those of us who live in Scotland as our […]

  • Preparing for Raspberry Pi

    There has been much talk and chatter about the long awaited Raspberry Pi and I can’t wait to get my hands on at least one of them!  However, researching and dreaming of Pi can be almost as good as having some in my opinion. I have been dreaming and researching about many aspects of the […]