Those of you who follow the blog will know that I’ve been running a series of guest posts from Nevil Hunt, inventor of the Seven Segments of Pi. Teacher Allen Heard has now written some proper lesson plans using Seven Segs…
Category: Education
Program Flappy Bird (Fla-Pi Bird) in Scratch using a #RaspberryPi
Picademy graduate (and Raspberry Pi Certified Educator) Allen Heard has recently recreated the famous Flappy Bird game in Scratch. He has now put all his lesson plans up on Github for everyone to share. Take a look at his blog post…
Another Picademy write-up from a teacher using a #RaspberryPi
Allen Heard went to the Picademy this past week and has done an excellent write-up on all the activities they got up to. Read it here
Seven Segments of Pi in the Classroom (Part 6)
Another guest post from Nevil Hunt, creator of the Seven Segments of Pi Part 6 – Soldering is Fun! But respect the 300oC end! Last week I talked about how in the PiDice Workshop pupils learnt how to write Python…
National Museum of Computing features #RaspberryPi / FUZE
Just been contacted by the FUZE team with a press release (it’s the first time I’ve been sent a press release!) so I thought I’d share the news. The National Museum of Computing lights the FUZE at Bletchley ParkThe National…
Picademy – #RaspberryPi Foundation course write-up
Lenny Dutton has just completed the first Picademy course run by the Raspberry Pi Foundation at their Cambridge headquarters. She’s written extensively about the experience on her blog. Very good reading for those who are interested in the steps the…
Foundation focus: Programming in Minecraft with the #RaspberryPi
This is the first in what I suspect will be a long series of posts in which I feature one of the education resources on the Raspberry Pi Foundation site. This time, I wanted to point people at the introduction to…
Picademy Day One write-up – #RaspberryPi teacher CPD at Pi Towers!
Teacher Sway Grantham was one of the lucky ones who got a place on Picademy – a brand new 2-day course for teachers run by the folks at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Foundation has recently moved into a spacious…
Introductory course to the #RaspberryPi in South Wales – several dates
The University of South Wales is running a FULLY FUNDED introductory course to Raspberry Pi on the following dates: Tuesday 24th June 2014 (full day) Tuesday 1st July 2014 (full day) Friday 4th July 2014 (full day) @ Crownford House Merthyr Tydfil…
Setting up your #RaspberryPi with Johnny Ball!
Childhood legend to the over-30s Johnny Ball has kindly donated his time to the Raspberry Pi Foundation to voice their new video about setting up the Raspberry Pi. It tells you everything you need to know about what goes where…