Python video tutorials
Just found a series of videos on Peertube which cover the Python 3 Programming language.
Worth a look, as different tutorials can present the same material in a different way, sometimes this is really helpful.
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Teaching Computing Curriculum
The new framework for teaching computing and computer science can be found on the Teach Computing website.
As part of this, there are sections covering teaching animation. One example is for year 3 – Stop frame animation
At code club we have a piece of software called Tupi, which can be used for animation. I am creating a set of videos for peertube to cover the basic usage of this. As I am using Debian 11 to use the software and produce these resources they can be found in the Debian section of my diode.zone account on the federated Peertube network.
Please do not ask me about uploading to Youtube.
The next Code Club is on Saturday 15th October, so we may take a look at this IF there is sufficient interest.
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#CodeClub,#Animation,#UK,#Schools,#Curriculum. #TeachingComputing,#PeerTube,#Tupi,#TupiDraw
New Skills Academy : Teaching Assistant Diploma 2
I have now completed 10 out of 20 modules for the level 2 TA diploma.
- Module 1 : Defining and Explaining the Role of a Teaching Assistant
- Module 2 : Understanding Schools as Organisations
- Module 3 : Supporting Development in Pupils: Practice and Policies
- Module 4 : Supporting the Teacher and the School
- Module 5 : Applying Learning Activities to Support the Teaching of the Curriculum
- Module 6 : Legislation, Legal Obligations and School Policies to Ensure
- Module 7 : Learning Literacy Skills with Teaching Assistant Support
- Module 8 : Learning Numeracy Skills with Teaching Assistant Support
- Module 9 : Supporting the Use of Information and Communication Technology
- Module 10 : Supporting Play and Learning
Next module
- Module 11 : Supporting Pupils with Disabilities and Special Education Needs
So making good progress
So can now move on to the next module(s)
Torbay Trojans Training 9/10/2022
Great session today, next session is on Sunday 9th October 2022.
New contact and Flag players (16+) are welcome.
Rookie camp takes place from the Sunday 16th October 2022.
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New Skills Academy : Teaching Assistant Diploma
I have now completed 6 out of 20 modules for the level 2 TA diploma.
- Module 1 : Defining and Explaining the Role of a Teaching Assistant
- Module 2 : Understanding Schools as Organisations
- Module 3 : Supporting Development in Pupils: Practice and Policies
- Module 4 : Supporting the Teacher and the School
- Module 5 : Applying Learning Activities to Support the Teaching of the Curriculum
- Module 6 : Legislation, Legal Obligations and School Policies to Ensure
So making good progress, I stopped at Module 6 as there is a worksheet to complete before moving on to Module 7.
So can now move on to Module 7
- Module 7 : Learning Literacy Skills with Teaching Assistant Support
Skymaps October 2022
An astronomy skymap is available for October 2022 and can be downloaded from here
These are excellent monthly references, the website also has some other really useful resources.
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More care industry abuse.
10 years after Winterborne view [1] we now have another atrocity, of patients in a mental health unit have been a abused [2]. With a CQC report on another facility in 2020 [3]
The UK conservative government have been in power since 2010, so there is no blaming others.
However the ring leader of the Winterborne view scandal got a whole TWO years in prison [4], not only insulting but hardly going to deter others.
- Winterborne view, 2012 4 Winterbourne View: Care workers jailed for abuse
- 'Toxic culture' of abuse at mental health hospital revealed by BBC secret filming, 2022
- CQC report: Care of people with learning disabilities 'inhumane'
[1] has links to further examples
- Mum's 'guilt' over Winterbourne View, 26 October 2012
- Abuse home care workers jailed, 26 October 2012
- Fresh inquiry into abuse claims, 24 October 2012
- Earlier abuse at hospital found, 22 October 2012
- Call for change after care abuse, 7 August 2012
- Care worker admits patient abuse, 6 August 2012
- Two council care managers sacked, 24 July 2012
- Rise in care home whistleblowers, 23 June 2012
- Abuse home contracts scrutinised, 8 November 2011
- Watchdog condemns abuse response, 18 July 2011
- Shocking' care abuse condemned, 1 June 2011
- Arrests after hospital abuse film, 1 June 2011
All this under a CONSERVATIVE government and they can't blame anyone else.
Meta and user safety
I think the current inquiry in to what happened to Molly Russell tells us a lot about Meta.
Rather different view to that of a psychiatrist (read Qualified professional)
- Posts seen by Molly affected my sleep – psychiatrist
Molly Russell inquest: Instagram clips seen by teen 'most distressing'
Molly Russell: Social media causes no end of issues, head says
WAKE UP PEOPLE
Artemis 1 – Mission part 7
The plan is to try another launch during 27/9/2022. Check the NASA site for details. NASA is keeping an eye on the weather and an approaching tropical storm. Fingers Crossed the launch can go ahead.
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#NASA,#Moon,#Mission,#Artemis,#ScienceForums
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Code Club 1/10/2022
Carrying on from last session,
We have access to Blender, a 3d graphics package, which can also handle animation etc. There are some good resources for this, so lets see what we can create.
I highly recommand that attendees bring a USB memory stick for saving work / projects. We can't save work to the Library computers, saving work to a cloud service is do-able, but this is sometimes tripped up as due to logging in from a different IP address than normal.
Don't worry we can still do Scratch, HTML / CSS and any of the usual activities.
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#CodeClub,#Blender,#Scratch,#RocksAndDiamonds,#Coding, #GameDesign
Next session
- Next Code Club is Saturday 1st October 2022.
- Next STEM Group meeting 8/10/2022
Please contact Paignton Library for details.
