by Ian Addison | Oct 29, 2012 | blogposts, Curriculum, Presentations / Teachmeets
Back in July, I wrote about an appearance on Brazilian TV where I would be discussing the use of Scratch to help with programming in school. I have just been sent the video and I thought I would share it on here. The video is mainly in Portuguese and we appear around...
by Ian Addison | Jul 17, 2012 | blogposts, Presentations / Teachmeets, Useful Sites/Software
I know that this will shock many people but until about 24 hours ago, I’d never used Scratch. Never. I have seen Miles Berry present on it twice and have also worked with many others (Pete Stuart, Simon Hunt etc) who have talked about it, but I have never sat...
by Ian Addison | Aug 24, 2011 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
Following on from my post about programming, I wanted to share the links that I have collated. Some of these came from comments to my post, some from tweets I received and some are examples I had myself. I thought it best to share my presentation with you all as I...
by Ian Addison | Aug 18, 2011 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
Following on from appearing on BBC Click I have been invited to attend a meeting to discuss the place of programming in the primary curriculum. In our school we use 2Do It Yourself to create games and this started in KS2 but in June we made simple games with KS1 as...
by Ian Addison | May 23, 2010 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
After discussing the event as a whole here, I thought I should talk about the high quality of the presentations from all involved. They were truly amazing. Sometimes at TeachMeets, there can be talks that are a bit weaker than others and some that might not be...
