Educator, Co-founder @FDNdigicreate, EdD PGR @UniversityLeeds, @LeedsRaspJam, #womenintech
Exciting news for 2019: thingQbator Manchester is to delivered by The Foundation for Digital Creativity at Manchester Met University. It’s the first European university in a worldwide network of IoT (internet of things) innovation spaces funded … Continue reading Cisco thingQbator Manchester
This project was used to identify more of the problems that we knew we had, meaning the squirrels in our garden aren’t daft! A really simple timelapse project using a … Continue reading Digital making to encourage more birds into the garden
Much has been written this week about a squeezed creative curriculum in our schools, including a perceived emphasis of teaching children to code to the detriment of other subjects in … Continue reading Constraints on creativity
Exciting times ahead! The start of this new academic year has seen us launching The Foundation for Digital Creativity. I’ve been blown away by the messages of support and encouragement … Continue reading Next steps: Building a Digital Foundation
“Everybody’s welcome!” Since October 2015, and that first monthly Leeds Raspberry Jam at Swallow Hill Community College, we’ve tried to support the community to increase opportunities with digital making activities. … Continue reading Extending digital making collaborations with #ReadySteadyPi
I finally got around to finishing this #AIY project build after completing ‘start to cardboard box’ with Jr in an hour on the first day : ) Another awesome edition … Continue reading Getting started with #AIYProjects
I learnt a lot on Saturday. With every maker event there are opportunities for collaborations and family learning activities, and this weekend’s #MakeBelieve focus was about young people imagining the tech of … Continue reading Digital Making at #MakeBelieve
PiParty was brilliant and another reminder of the strength of community in supporting and inspiring digital makers; experienced makers or those dipping a toe into projects. Got me reflecting on my own … Continue reading Maker aspirations and inspirations
Raspberry Jams are community events organised to support knowledge share, learning new skills, gleaning new ideas and meeting other like-minded digital makers using Raspberry Pi. In Raspberry Jam group in Hull … Continue reading Wondered about the wonders of Pi? STEM to STEAM just got large scale in Hull!
Intrigued by the opportunities for voice activated reading projects in school, we set to with an Echo hack using Raspberry Pi. Speaker, microphone and Amazon Developer account at the ready, the … Continue reading Alexa’s Untold Stories: Voice commands with Raspberry Pi
Wow – a year since we started to put our monthly meet up into the calendar at Swallow Hill ! This month’s Raspberry Jam had the usual mix of shared … Continue reading Leeds Raspberry Jam: First birthday at Swallow Hill
Christmas came early last week. Got to admit that we became embroiled in Quality Street-gate with forceful opinions expressed about which choc should have been replaced. The trouble was that peer … Continue reading ‘Quality’ decision making without peer pressure using Picap
