Monthly Archives: December 2016

7th Day of Christmas–Programming Tips with Python–Lists (Arrays)

Welcome to day 7 of my Christmas blogs! This tutorial will show you how you can use lists within Python. You can add or remove items from the list. My intention is to show you in another tutorial, how you … Continue reading

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6th Day of Christmas–Shared Programming through the browser

Today’s lesson comes courtesy of the website codeshare.io while thinking about ways to engage pupils with computer programming, I started thinking that it would be a great idea for students to do some paired programming without having to sit at … Continue reading

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5th Day of Christmas–Teaching Tips–Embedding Python Programming into your PowerPoint

On the 5th day of Christmas, a teacher gave to me! Tips on embedding programming within your PowerPoint presentations. In yesterday’s video tutorial, I showed you how easy it was to record your presentations for flipped learning. Today I’m going … Continue reading

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4th Day of Christmas–Teaching Tips– Office Mix–Record your lessons

On the 4th day of Christmas, a teacher gave to me! Tips on using Office Mix with your students. Doesn’t have a ring to it does it? Well I can assure you that it is a great way of recording … Continue reading

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3rd Day of Christmas–Teaching Tips– Quicker Marking (Smart Marking)

Merry Christmas! I hope that day 3 is going amazing! Remember Christmas has only just started! This is why I’m giving out a gift of a teaching tip a day. Some will be programming related but others may help your … Continue reading

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2nd Day of Christmas–Teaching Tips–Programming

Welcome to my 2nd day of Christmas teaching tips. These tips today are meant to help teachers with their programming. They may even help some of your students with their programming. The concepts that will be covered in this video … Continue reading

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12 Teaching Tips of Christmas!–Day 1

I just want to start off by saying it’s been a crazy year. I would like to say thank you to all of the teachers who still read my blog and check out the computer science pages that I have. … Continue reading

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