OpenLearn Courses

Education & Development course

Am I ready to be a distance learner? Introductory level Education & Development course Last accessed: 04 February 2021

Essay and report writing skills Introductory level Education & Development course Last accessed: 27 February 2021

Encouraging book talk in the school library Introductory level Education & Development course Last accessed: 14 August 2018

Science, Maths & Technology course

Galaxies, stars and planet Introductory level Science, Maths & Technology course Last accessed: 27 October 2020

Health and safety in the laboratory and field Introductory level Science, Maths & Technology course Last accessed: 18 August 2018

In the night sky: Orion Introductory level Science, Maths & Technology cours Last accessed: 30 June 2020

The Moon Introductory level Science, Maths & Technology course Last accessed: 10 February 2019

The Sun Introductory level Science, Maths & Technology course Last accessed: 31 December 2019

The evolving Universe Introductory level Science, Maths & Technology course Last accessed: 27 December 2019

Particle physics Introductory level Science, Maths & Technology course Last accessed: 10 November 2020

Simple coding Introductory level Science, Maths & Technology course Last accessed: 28 October 2020

Sociology course

Children’s rights Intermediate level Sociology course Last accessed: 16 November 2018

Environmental Studies course

Energy resources: Tidal energy Intermediate level Environmental Studies course Last accessed: 28 October 2020

Money & Business course

Facilitating group discussions Introductory level Money & Business course Last accessed: 16 August 2018

Mathematics & Statistics course

Numbers, units and arithmetic Introductory level Mathematics & Statistics course Last accessed: 27 January 2021

Education course

Teaching assistants: support in action Introductory level Education course Last accessed: 11 September 2018

REFERENCES

• OpenLearn
• Open University

TAGS

#OpenLearn,#OpenUniversity,#Learning,#Education, #Development

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LibreOffice : The New Generation

In late January, we announced LibreOffice New Generation, which focuses on bringing younger contributors into our projects and communities. We’ve had many discussions in our Telegram group since then, and today we’re announcing our first finished project: a LibreOffice flyer for schools and universities:

#LibreOffice,#Development,#New,#Generation,#Schools,#Colleges,#Universities.

Imposter syndrome with Creative Education

Imposter Syndrome: 5 tips for overcoming it

No matter how many years you spend in the profession, the first day back after a long break can feel terrifying. In this short course, I’ve shared some simple practical ideas to help you feel more confident about returning to school and to help you manage if things don’t go quite to plan.

• Course page

Completed this on 7th March 2021. Thank you for making another course free for a week. This is great for my own personal & professional development and shows I am serious about finding ways to improve my skills.

REFERENCES

• Creative Education

TAGS

#Training,#CPD,#Work,#Employment,#Personal, #Professional,#Development,#LookingForWork

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GoDot Conference 2021

• Schedule here

Event : GoDot game engine conference Date : 23rd January 2021

Posted by:-

• @[email protected]">Gaming on GNU+Linux

Debian GNU+Linux info

godot3/stable 3.0.6-2 amd64
  Full 2D and 3D game engine with editor
godot3-runner/stable 3.0.6-2 amd64
  Godot game engine run-time
godot3-server/stable 3.0.6-2 amd64
  Headless Godot game engine run-time
golang-github-gobuffalo-envy-dev/stable 1.6.4-1 all
  simplify working with ENV variables
golang-github-joho-godotenv-dev/stable 1.2.0+git20180115.6bb0851-1 all
  Go port of Ruby's dotenv library

#gnu,#linux,#mac,#windows,#game,#development,#godot,#engine

School for Africa

School For Africa is an initiative by a Kenyan teacher to help educate some of the poorest kids in the world. You can follow the project at [1]:

REFERENCES

• School for Africa
• Jonathan Mburugu
• Jonathan Mburugu
• Fediverse ID : @[email protected]

Other resources that may be useful for this project

• Digital Skills Framework
• CodeClub
• PinePhone
• PineBook
• Purism – Librem-5
• Project GutenBerg
• Open Street Map

TAGS

#YearOfTheFediverse,#SchoolForAfrica #Africa #Education #Schools #Development #Charity #Kenya #Activism, #pinebook, #pinephone,#Librem,#Purism

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Libhandy 1.0.3 released

Gnome team have announced the released of Libhandy 1.03

Most of the update appears to be a few bug fixes, but this is very welcome all the same.

Search libhandy on Mastodon for more details. you can follow me here or sign up and with this link here.

Link is set to last for 1 week then expire.

#gnome,#gtk,#libhandy,#release,#mobile,#app, #development,#update,#software,#library

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Contribute to f-droid

This was originally shared on Mastodon, so am sharing here for any of my followers who may be interested.

• F-droid is looking for project contributors. There is a good article here with some more information.

The contribution page is also here

Looks like lots of opportunities to get involved. If you are interested you can also get in touch with IzzyOnDroid.

You can join Mastodon here then connect with IssyOnDroid and ask how to get involved.

I am on Mastodon here

#freesoftware,#fdroid,#contribution,#foss,#repository, #android,#technology,#programming,#testing,#docs, #development,#software

Scratch projects 20/11/2020

Still occasionally create simple Scratch projects to add to my portfolio. Mostly simple stuff, that can be built upon.

Resources

• Scratch Profile
• Scratch Educators LinkedIn Group

• Paignton Code Club

• Other tutorials (not by me)

#scratch,#programming,#basics,#development,#lookingforwork

LibreOffice Learning Resources

As digital skills are an essential part of everyday life. I have created, a new blog, to host information to help people out tasks using LibreOffice.

So far this is blog has covered just the Writer component. This may be extended later, as I have some videos for the Calc Spreadsheet.

The new blog can be found here.

• Videos, hosted on my Peer tube.
• Images, hosted on Salsa.debian
• Blog, hosted on personaljournal.ca/

• Blog. powered by https://write.as/

• TDF Blog post

#Digital,#Skills,#LibreOffice,#Writer,#Basic,#Tutorial, #Text,Video,#MixedMedia,#Learning,#Development

State of the Onion

Development of the Tor Browser

On Monday November 16, 2020 there is a State of the Onion: Tor & Community Updates from 2020 event.

Join us for the (virtual) State of the Onion at on Nov 16, 2020 @ 16:00 – 18:00 UTC.*

• Tor Event

#tor,#privacy,#event,#browser,#update,#development,#state