Tools for Teaching (www.toolsforteaching.co.uk)
A lot of my work takes place in the area of teaching apps. Here is a recent review of the content: A Computing Teacher’s Guide to toolsforteaching.co.uk There’s a moment …
AI Revision Bot goes live across college!
We have started to use the AI Revision Bot across the Department of ITDD at Exeter College to support learner’s revision. Overall the feedback is very positive – apart from …
SQLSim – Teaching aid for learning SQL
This is a student-safe environment to learn and tinker with SQL queries without the complexities of setup or the risk of compromising shared data. All processing happens in a virtual …
CodeMonkey PPT Extensions – On Screen Timer
I usually develop Office extensions in response to a given need. My mentor suggested that an on-screen timer would help keep the time limit in my student’s mind when they …
Further Kallbak Improvements: searchable insertion of questions inside PowerPoint
Further Kallbak Improvements: searchable insertion of questions inside PowerPoint I decided to make the UI of the PowerPoint element of Kallbak better, so enabled the facility to see all the …
Kallbak now features Likert Scale Questions
Kallbak now features Likert Scale Questions Likert Scales are the 1-5 rating scales used all over the place. They have a long history in research questionnaires and have been seriously …
Kallback Powerpoint Module: Improved Wordcloud
Kallback Powerpoint Module: Improved Wordcloud Whereas creating a wordcloud within a web-based App was relatively easy, creating that inside PowerPoint (one of the key features of Kallbak) was quite challenging, …
Kallbak – student engagement in real time.
Many schools often ban Mobile Phones as a distraction, but in Computing we view them as tools – both a platform for development and a means of using technology to …
Upload PowerShell FTP Script using WinSCP command line
There are times when you need to upload a selected batch of files somewhere. In my case, as I am shipping React code to live after it has been built. …
A Text Adventure Game in Python
I have been undertaking a course on Python for some extra credit as part of my PGCE through ExCode. Part of this has been to create a text-based adventure game. …
Question match site
This little revision aid comes out of a less ambitious idea: I wanted to illustrate the matching of statements to headings using a little drag and drop. It was originally …
Blur CSS Filter – a game changer for my UI
This is such a cool effect, bringing an object (usually a div) up on screen
The Little JupyterHub (TLJH) Configuration Guide
I tried to install regular JupyterHub about a dozen times. Each time I found myself in a morass of configuration and authentication problems, and when it came to the crunch, …
Pirate Pete’s Python Programming Treasure Quest
I’ve been working on JupyterHub Notebooks recently – a collaborative document format which can run Python code in small code windows. It’s excellent for teaching and developing skills in programming. …