Qu.1 
When did you first introduce #computing into your curriculum lessons? and with what examples?

Qu.2
How have students (not necessarily DLs) helped in #computing lessons? Have they added in ways you could not do on your own?

Qu.3
Do you run a code club? What sorts of activities have you covered? More

Seeing as LLS Year 8 Digital Leaders welcome the Y7s tomorrow to try out Code Bugs, I thought I would start a post explaining our progress which will culminate in a talk at BETT16 in the main arena.

1. BBC #microbit roadshow:

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Having explained how I have bench tested and decided on a final Raspberry Pi configuration – in A Classroom set of Raspberry Pi’s – part 1,  I took delivery of 18 sets and started putting them together with the help of my Digital Leaders.  Here is the description of both the equipment and the setting up.

The standard set-up is this:

Cable tied and velcroed to the wall with toggled switching using the KVM (velcroed to PC box):

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I attended #Picademy North at Easter (2015).  I committed then to a post about a Raspberry Pi project which would be a viable method of using Raspberry Pi’s in the classroom – initially for a coding club and subsequently for KS3 lessons.  Six months later I have sources spreadsheet for all the components; completed my testing, and linked my updated KS3 scheme of learning.  Here are my Raspberry Pi setup notes too and Physical Computing Notes.

My aim is two stage –

1. Support my Digital Leaders with using Raspberry Pi’s with the Coding Club on Thursday lunchtimes
2. Integrate the use of a half class set (x16) of Raspberry Pi’s for KS3 class use.  I have worked out that this will be for 2 teaching units, one in Year 8 – using the Pibrella to model traffic lights using Scratch GPIO tied in with Flowol; and a Year 9 Control Project unit using Python, the RaspIO Protection board and the ModMyPi Raspberry Pi YouTube Workshop Kit (see bid).

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I have just sent out 4 packages of the following to Digital Leaders.  We will be trialling the Pibrella and the RasPio/ModMyPi Raspberry Pi YouTube Workshop Kit which will be the basis of Year 8 and 9 physical computing next year.

Here are the links for the installation and the resources:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xiwtguxefn9fQwCUIwaMgE3UsXXrdxtxBQvpTX912K0/edit?usp=sharing

Q1. How does having a differentiated badge framework help students? / DL Co-ords?
Q2. Would sharing ‘good’ DL activities help other DL Co-ords?
Q3. Are we ready for a Google Community for #DLChat? – see below
Q4. How could we use our Google Community to plan for DLs at BETT16?
Q5. Level 3 badges are like L2 but ‘bigger’ than school events. Discuss…

https://storify.com/gr8ict/dlchat#publicize

 #DLchat Google Community here

Here’s the Raspberry Pi Community – I’ve deliberately resized it to fudge the text.

TMNorton link here

Google Slides are here (with comments)

My up-to-date shopping list for feasible network of 16 Raspberry Pi’s…

Google doc with links and pics of all resources shown at #picademy North docs.google.com/document/d/1p3… ready for showing to my DLs Monday.

These are the links for our video and Jean Paul II Primary School’s Video.
Our shared talk is here Google slides and our talk was translated by an interpreter, as we spoke.

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