Alan O'Donohoe's posts

We talk to Sara Berkai, Sway Grantham and Dominic Kelly on Day 2 of #MicrobitLive, host Alan O'Donohoe of http://exa.foundation. This a recorded discussion, recorded during Day 2 of #MicrobitLive on Saturday 4th October 2019.  We discuss some of our highlights of the event, including PRIMM and pedagogy, reflecting on what we found useful. 

Recorded at #MicrobitLive on Saturday 4th October 2019. This a recorded discussion with Nic Hughes @duck_star, Neil Rickus @computingchamps and host Alan O'Donohoe of exa.foundation. We discuss some of our highlights of the first day of the event, reflecting on what we found useful and look ahead to Day 2 of the programme. 

I've had some bad luck with Audioboom previously, so this was an experiment. It's an audible version of this blogpost: https://teachcomputing.wordpress.com/2016/04/20/innovating-conference-planning/

Interviews recorded at the #MozFest Science Fair with @abbycabs @cbahlai @urban_teacher & @beatricemartini

Interview with Alex Weatherall @A_Weatherall at #EdTechCon15 We discussed Leeds Raspberry Jam: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/raspberry-jam-2308520311 more Raspberry Jams listed at https://www.raspberrypi.org/jam/

On the 1st October 2015, we founded @exafoundation. Previously the Teach Computing podcast had focused primarily on my classroom teaching, the podcast will explore other related topics in the future. Feedback to alan o'donohoe or @teknoteacher 

Launch of Northamptonshire's Race To The Top Coding Competition, more at: http://www3.northamptonshire.gov.uk/councilservices/educationandlearning/information-for-school-staff/race-to-the-top/Pages/northamptonshire-coding-competition.aspx

@CyberChallenge UK launch their #Cyphinx Play On Demand platform to plug digital skills gap in cyber security industry. More at: http://cybersecuritychallenge.org.uk/cyphinx/

A podcast episode about podcast listening and recording, recorded at BarCamp Manchester

Interviews with members of Preston Hackspace (Twitter @PrestonHack ) at The Continental, Preston. Preston does not have premises for a Hackspace, but the community is growing. Listen to some members of the community explain the attraction of the Hackspace and their projects.

#TeachComputing podcast - update

In this #TeachComputing podcast recorded on 19Sep14 at #pyconuk, I interview some teachers and developers attending the Education Track.

Results from #GCSEcomputing, #JamPacked, #digitalheroes & #picademy

Here's a link with more details about PyConUK Education Track http://pyconuk.org/education/

I was delighted to bump into a great Computing At School advocate today while I was training teachers in Manchester. Listen to see who it is and what they have to say about Computing in the primary curriculum.

Apologies - some technical issues in this episode. I interview teachers attending the Computing At School hub meeting in Birmingham, Year 7 pupils in my class and then explain the offer to teachers for the PyConUK conference education stream http://pyconuk.org/education

We held a Hack To The Future event at Kelvin Hall School, Hull for 60 girls and their teachers. In this podcast I interview some of the people at the event. Then later in the podcast you can hear an interview with Pete Bell at the Calderdale Computing At School Hub Meeting. If you want to use the lesson plan we used for the first lesson, you can download it from http://tinyurl.com/h2df-lesson-plan

Interview with with @b_seven_e 

There has been much discussion about the suitability and level of challenge presented by LMC ( The Little Man Computer). In this special podcast episode I share my views.

Interviews from the Cambridge Raspberry Jam #camjam on Sat 10th May. I discuss #picademy with @swaygrantham

Please complete the survey at: http://tinyurl.com/tekno1414 Other links I mentioned: http://tinyurl.com/teachcomputingcpd http://tinyurl.com/herbalgerbil http://correlatedcontents.com/misc/Father.html http://twinery.org

Featuring interviews with @si_lumb, @treefudan & @alexvscoding

With @lee_stott

Revision programme for Year 11 GCSE Computing #TeachComputing Links that I mentioned:- http://tinyurl.com/10aComputing http://tinyurl.com/gcsecomputingrevisionplan http://tinyurl.com/10aco1parents http://tinyurl.com/10aco1

We start this episode interviewing 10yr old Josh at Preston Raspberry Jam and then finish off the week at Hull Digital Hardware Meetup #TeachComputing @c4dihull

We hosted a Raspberry Pi inventors day at Andrew Marvill school in Hull.

#rjam @geekonPFM @tweety_michelle @runforthequiet. Recorded in my car. High quality link to follow.

#Minecraft, outstanding lesson, CPD

with @2014ICT @clivebeale @chris_swan @simonhumpreys @compatsch

@CompAtSch

with @jonjwilliams @ictevangelist @mrocallaghanedu @doctormassey & @vikkiville

At #bett2014 with @Dr_Black

@CompAtSch

In this episode we discuss #hourofcode @RaspberryPi App Inventor and more

Interviews with David Whale & Vikki Dodd

Details about the event http://manchester.girlgeekdinners.com/2013/11/10/girl-geek-tea-party-37-raspberry-pi-workshop-with-kano/ Find out more about 'Sabotage' at http://teachcomputing.wordpress.com Get access to Computing CPD For Free in your school http://tinyurl.com/CPDforFree @mcrgirlgeeks with @teamkano

This week there are three sections. At the end of the Mozilla Festival I went to visit Jill Hodges at Fire Tech Camp, then went to visit a Raspberry Pi exhibit at Manchester Science Festival and then ended my week at Tech Fest in Dubai.

with @archiville

@CompAtSch

@hartreecentre 

with @vikkiville @dawnhewitson @STEMettes 

This interview was recorded live on Tuesday 8th October 2013 on BBC Radio 5 Live with Nicky Campbell, Rachel Burden & Adam Parsons.

#rjam

#edutalk @Compatsch

#pyconuk  @PyConUK @TENcentre 

@vikkiville #edutalk

#MakerParty