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Building a Raspberry Pi Robot and Controlling it with Scratch
Happy New Year everyone! Things have been a bit quiet on this blog due to the Christmas rush, and the fact that we’ve been spending time on product development (more on that in a future post). But here at last is the 3rd and final post in our series on the Raspberry Pi robot we […] Welcome to the second part of our series of posts, describing the workshop we ran at the recent Digimakers event at @Bristol. In the last post we described the outline of the workshop and looked at the hardware of the Raspberry Pi robot that we built for the event. Last weekend we ran a workshop at the Digimakers event at @Bristol where we taught people how to program a Raspberry Pi robot with the Scratch programming language. We had a great response to a recent blog post we wrote, describing how to build a Raspberry Pi robot that you can drive around using a tablet, smartphone or PC. A Raspberry Pi with a camera, gives you a small, low cost, embedded vision system, but it’s not very mobile.
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The Parent's Guide To Installing Minecraft Mods • MineMum
Are your kids desperate to get into mods but you don't know where to start? Well this is the guide for you. Installing mods can be tricky and frustrating, but hopefully this will make it a little easier to understand. Important safety tips! Before you get started, make sure you understand what mods are and you've read the safety tips for downloading them. And most importantly of all, make a backup copy of any worlds that you already have that you want to keep. How do you install a mod? There's really no standard way to install a Minecraft mod because each is created by a different person using different methods. The easiest way to do all this is by using a mod called Minecraft Forge, but sometimes for whatever reason Forge doesn't load properly or the mods you want to run aren't compatible with it. OPTION A: Installing mods with Forge Mods can often be really difficult to get up and running. Step 1: Download Forge Step 2: Install Forge Step 3: Launch Minecraft Step 4: Download compatible mods
The evolution of the book - Julie Dreyfuss
Prior to the release of the Amazon Kindle in November 2007, Stephen Levy commented in his Newsweek article, “Amazon: Reinventing the Book,” on the concept of the book as an invention. Quoting Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos directly, Levy writes that “‘books are the last bastion of analog.” This phrasing suggests the book as a set of definable qualities that can be manipulated, redefined, and commodified. But Levy also issues a warning that eventually “the surge of technology will engulf all media.” In an ever-increasing mass market of iPads, computers, and eBooks, 21st-century technology will redefine the codex of literature and the reading experience in the same way that the codex once revolutionized reading by moving away from the scroll. Watch this comic video, which comments on this anxiety. The idea of a book as a physical object may prove obsolete. If you have an interest in the history of the book and the study of the object itself, then methodology may help to guide your investigation.
Massive open online courses: Mooc's, Issues with moocs, ESP and Mooc's, Pedagogical Implications | Aysha Sharif
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Stage 4 | NSW Education Standards
In Stage 4, students are encouraged to become more sophisticated in their use of computational thinking skills in all learning areas. They can create online stories and games, programs and models. Students can use electronics and robotic technology to create mechanisms and develop mini-computers. They learn how to best use everyday sites such as Google Maps and spreadsheets. English Students could: create poetry using online poetry creators such as AIpoem or Poetry Creator apps work as a class to publish a collection of short stories using iBooks Author or a similar app write narratives using programs such as Alice develop and code games that include narrative elements with gaming software, such as Unity or YoYo Games create comics using an online comic creator such as Alice or Pixton model conversations in Scratch deconstruct coding instructions as an informational or procedural text type. Resources Mathematics Science Technology (mandatory) Creative Arts History Resources Geography
8 Google Sheets Add-ons Every Teacher Should Know About
July , 2017 Google Sheets add-on store features a number of educational extensions to use with your forms and spreadsheets to add amazing functionalities. These add-ons are arranged into various categories. We revisited the ‘education’ category and selected for you the 8 most popular applications there. Using these add-ons will enable you to: Create graphs and forms and write complex math in your sheetsCreate and modify a planning schedule for project management in a spreadsheet; easily scaffold, manage and assess students projects in Google DriveQuickly grade and analyze students assessments, split cells, remove duplicates, clean up data and change caseAdd powerful functionality to quizzes you create via Google FormsSend personalized mass emails with Gmail and track email opens. 1- g(Math) for Sheets ‘This will be an invaluable tool for any math class or math teacher. 2- Doctopus 3- Flubaroo 4- Power Tools 5- Yet Another Mail Merger 6- Super Quiz 7- Mail Merge with Attachments
