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For the most part, the Fediverse is full of stuff that is positive, however there is a very disturbing situation coming out of Florida and also other parts of the USA.

Teachers have been told to remove any books not sanctioned or approved by the state or obtained from specific suppliers (who would be approved), Not doing so will result in 3rd degree felony charge, (equivalent to manslaughter).

This is happening right now in the USA. There are similar policies being implemented in other states too.

• Florida teachers told to remove books from classroom libraries or risk felony prosecution

I am sharing this as I feel it is important to let people know what us going on.

• Students want new books. Thanks to restrictions, librarians can’t buy them

Quote from above:

Students are upset, especially LGBTQ students, said a Keller employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional retribution. “They want to see themselves in books, they want to see themselves reflected, and they’re not able to.”

The district wrote in a statement that the book selection “process we have in place … allows librarians to take the lead in curating our libraries, while inviting our community to provide input and to partner with staff to protect our students.” It continued: “Books are not removed simply because they feature LGBTQ characters, and there are still books available that include these characters.”

In a new development,

'a high-ranking legislator from North Dakota, Mike Lefor, is proposing the inevitable next step: banning these books from public libraries.'

#USA,#Florida,#Schools,#Books,#Banning,#Republicans,#CurrentSituation

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.

Videos

• Install
  • Reset (if you encounter problems)
• New Project
  • Save Project
  • Open Project
• Getting Started
• Views
• Moving Frames
• Time Line

Tags

#CodeClub,#Animation,#UK,#Schools,#Curriculum. #TeachingComputing,#PeerTube,#Tupi,#TupiDraw

Identify different video out connectors. I am making this post, as I may need to ask people what type of video connectors they have on their hardware, this will help them, help me. I can then turn up at a school or other venue with the correct cables.

A few pictures below, from OpenClipArt

VGA Connector

HDMI Connector, this should give a rough idea of the size, shape

DVI Connector Links

• Open Clip Art

TAGS

#STEMGroup,#CodeClub,#VGA,#HDMI,#DVI,#Video,#Connectors,#LookingForWork,#OpenToOffers,#Torbay,#Devon,#LookingForEmployment,#Schools,#STEM

Pi-Brella

The Pi-brella is a small add on board for the original Raspberry Pi, but still functions on newer models. This had features, such as a buzzer, i/o sockets, a switch and LEDs.

A few photos below

Links

• PiBrella

TAGS

#STEMGroup,#CodeClub,#PiBrella,#LookingForWork,#OpenToOffers,#Torbay, #Devon,#LookingForEmployment,#Schools,#STEM

Working on a few resources to support code club, if there are doubts about my ability to put effort in to something then these are clearly misguided.

I am looking for employment to support and help with STEM. At code club & STEM Group, I think there is scope to help with

• Physical computing
  • Electronics
• General coding (Scratch, Python)
• Networking
• BASH Command line
  • BASH Scripting
• Data Detox workshops
• Study skills

Along with a lot more,

A few photos below

Raspberry Pi, set up with a Breadboard and wires. I just need to re-flash the SDcard.

LED Bargraph (this can be connected to a PI using Female to Female leads, however using Female to Male leads, it can be connected to an Arduino.)

LED Traffic Lights (this can be connected to a PI using Female to Female leads, however using Female to Male leads, it can be connected to an Arduino.)

The GPIO header allows connection of a Pi to a header on a breadboard for prototyping, the other end (under the board) plugs in to the Pi.

We will hopefully carry on at the next STEM Group meeting.

TAGS

#STEMGroup,#CodeClub,#LookingForWork,#OpenToOffers,#Torbay, #Devon,#LookingForEmployment,#Schools,#STEM

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.

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 : @Jonathan@schoolforafrica.org

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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