Monthly Archives: December 2011

Buy a Raspberry Pi Model B computer (only £22)

Over the past few weeks we’ve been hearing about the Raspberry Pi and its imminent launch in the UK. The credit card sized device includes an integrated system board and ARM 700 MHz microprocessor similar to those found in mobile … Continue reading

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What does TLR mean in teaching jobs adverts?

Teaching and Learning Responsibility (TLR) payments are made to classroom teachers with additional responsibilities such as coordinating a particular subject. TLR payment scales can be viewed here.

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What does MPS mean in teaching job adverts?

What does MPS mean in teaching jobs adverts? I have started to look for jobs and wondered this very question. According to this, MPS means main pay scale and NQT teachers would start at point 1. However, my subject mentor … Continue reading

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Wordle word cloud from my SSA literature review

Getting carried away now, here’s a Wordle created from my SSA literature review, which happens to be e-book creation using Microsoft FrontPage.

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Create a word cloud from your web site

Well isn’t this cool? My PPS tutor, Ange[la], mentioned the website wordle.net last week and I’ve just created my own word cloud based on the RSS feed from ictcool.com

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Comments on the first draft of my SSA literature review

Last week I submitted a draft literature review for my Subject Studies Assignment (SSA) at King’s College London and today I got it back with some very helpful comments from my tutor. Working on his earlier suggestions, I had already … Continue reading

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KCL PGCE School Experience Placements 2 (SE2)

All PGCE ICT with Computing students at King’s College London have two school placements, with the second (SE2) beginning on February 27. Most King’s students teaching other subjects already know their SE2 placements, but ICT students will have to wait … Continue reading

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Subject Studies Assignment – what a Christmas treat!

Hooray! My school is now closed for the Christmas holiday and I don’t have any lectures at university until the New Year. Unfortunately, I do have some lessons to plan and I really need to catch up with organizing evidence for … Continue reading

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Download LMC simulation v.1.5.2 (requires Microsoft Excel)

The Little Man Computer simulates machine code programming using a simple instruction set and 100 memory addresses (labelled 00 to 99). This implementation was created to teach students in year 9 studying OCR Computing GCSE. As you can see, it … Continue reading

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