Flipgrid

We will be using Flipgrid for Digital Technologies as a way of having an ongoing discussion about school projects. It’s a simple concept: Teachers create a topic – with questions, images, links etcStudents login to the website or the iPad app using the...

Keyboarding

Learning to touch type on a standard QWERTY keyboard is still an important skill, but things have changed recently with on screen keyboards, autocorrect, speech recognition technology and mobile devices. Whilst it has commonly been taught in IT or digital technology...

Remixing Scratch Projects

There are many things to love about Scratch. The online Scratch community is definitely one of them. All shared projects in Scratch are public and available to everyone to use and examine how it was built. Furthermore, all shared projects can be ‘remixed’...

Introduction to code.org

Most of my students are very familiar with code.org and have used it extensively to learn coding concepts in class. This introduction is for parents to be able to help students login and navigate around the website to complete puzzles. Each class has been setup in...