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Playing around with CODEPEN.io

 CodePen is a playground for the front end side of the web. It’s all about inspiration, education, and sharing. Need to build a reduced test case to demonstrate and figure out a bug? CodePen is great for that. Want to…

Google RISE award!

 Tweet I am so excited to announce that readysaltedcode has been awarded one of the global RISE awards from Google. Now the hard work starts (already started…) The award is for a Dance DataVisualisation project to enabling others to access…

#artofCS – hardware research

 Tweet this post Having spent time researching what is available, possible and AFFORDABLE….. We have chosen theses devices as the project is about education and sharing. I now have selected my technology (But this will prbably change when something comes…

#BETT2014

 Had a great time at #BETT2014.  I was only able to go up on the Thursday, on the @AppShed stand. I thought that if I was going to be on a stand talking about  javascript and PHP development using the…

the Art of CS update

 I have a PLAN! The whole process of planning the project was initially daunting. Linking all the elements to learning, understanding and appreciation together has been more challenging that ususal as I want others to be able to share, use…

Raspberry Pi CAS event

 Just finalising the planning for a whole day event during CS week in december.  Getting very excited about the Python Pi day.  We are hoping to run 2 workshops during the day.  One in the morning and one in the…

Teachmeet Brighton Digital Festival 2013 #BDF2013

 I love the Teachmeet #tmbton at the Brighton Digital Festival. Every year there are fantastic ideas and partnerships that wouldn’t happen without this event. I always miss the beginning talks due to childcare so it was great to be able…

Brighton Digital Festival 2013 #BDF2013

 So many events and so little time. I am really looking forward to the events that I am running or partcipating in.  This weekend is jam packed with the TinyGames Game Jam at the Lighthouse on saturday. This swiftly followed…

Open Badges at Mozilla London

 I am really looking forward to this sold out event. Which is an informal working meeting including representatives from Computing at School (CAS), OCR and the Mozilla Foundation. We’ll be focusing on how Open Badges can be used to credential some CAS activity – including teacher professional development.…

#CAScade Project

 The CAScade project [Computing at School]is an online learning space for Computer Science educators to improve their skills, knowledge and understanding of the subject area.  The learning space will have videos and self guided video tutorials as well as live…