Looking to get your learners going with resources for this weeks global Hour of Code? Looking to integrate computer science into the school day all year long? Here are a handful of resources for computer science and coding. Teachers who are ready to jump into the Hour of Code or looking for inspiration as they design a new curriculum will find lots to choose from on this list.
Click here to access the resources
As part of the College/Secondary School STEM hubs ESP(Energy Skills Partnerhship) have been working with Education Scotland, SSERC, Bloodhound, the Army and Microsoft to launch Bloodhound Scotland’s Model Rocket car competition 2016-17 ‘Race for the Line’.
The Model Rocket Car Competition is open to secondary school students (11–16yr olds) and you can find your nearest college Bloodhound Scotland hub here https://www.dendrite.me/content/view/contentid/57349a24851dc6c9410ba839
92 Secondary schools got involved last year and we would like to see even more schools, teachers and young people engage with their local college this year.
For this year’s Hour of Code, your students can earn personalized Hour of Code certificates! Every coding activity they complete on Tynker earns them another badge that will show up on their certificate. There are 29 badges they can earn, so they’ll be really excited to complete all the activities and fill up their certificate!
More info can be found in the link below,
Get ready to take part in the First Minister’s Reading Challenge – Scotland’s brand-new reading initiative to encourage all pupils in Primary 4-7 to develop a life-long love of reading.
RM Books is delighted to be supporting this exciting project and you will find everything you need to help you deliver the First Minister’s Reading Challenge using our flexible, cost-effective ebook platform on this page below.
RM Books is easily accessible via RM Unify in Glow.
The Royal Observatory Edinburgh is currently recruiting Scottish primary schools to take part in the second year of the Tim Peake Primary Project. The project is free to schools and provides £500 worth of resources and support to help schools use space as an inspiring context for teaching and learning across the curriculum. Participating schools receive:
* a space resource box containing a range of highly-rated cross-curricular classroom resources
* on-line CPD sessions delivered by Space Ambassadors
* a classroom visit by your Space Ambassador, or a visit for your class to the Royal Observatory Edinburgh
The project was a great success in its first year, with over 50 schools taking part across Scotland and teachers reporting great outcomes for both their students and themselves. Any schools interested in taking part this year or learning more about the project should contact Olivia Johnson at the Royal Observatory on olivia.johnson@stfc.ac.uk by 18 November.
An updated help guide has now been added to the Glow Help site for the following processes:
Uploading and creating docs in OneDrive
Creating and sharing folders in OneDrive
Editing shared docs in OneDrive
How to add and how to edit shared docs in OneDrive
For licencing purposes schools are required to buy a licence for every iPad that a paid app goes onto. If you have 20 iPad and you would like Book Creator then you have to buy 20 copies. This can only be done with an Apple Volume Purchasing Account for Education (VPP).
If you do not have a school VPP account then you request one from susan.sey@aberdeneshire.gov.uk
Once your school has been enrolled then you can buy multiple copies of apps. The benefits are:
The VPP account is linked to a school gmail account which doesn’t have any personal data or information. This account is only used on a computer (not and iPad).
Your school will now have to purchase credit for the account before you can buy any apps.
Credit can be purchased via Oracle and the information for this is below.
Once you have ordered the credit info will be sent to the above g-mail address.
**You only have 4 weeks to click on the redeemable link in the e-mail. If you click on the link after the 4 weeks the link will have expired**.
Guidance notes can be found to support you with this by clicking on the link below.
Guidance for Apple Volume Purchasing Programme
There are also short video tutorials which talk you through the process . You can access the video tutorials by clicking on the link below. There are 3 steps and they have been named appropriately.
When you have received your school iPads it is important that they are set up correctly.
Teacher iPads are password protected and can go home with the teacher or go on school trips.
Pupil iPads are not password protected and cannot leave the school.
You need to create an iTune account for Free Apps. If you are in a Primary school then you may only require the one account and you can set up the iPads to sync the apps onto them all. If you are in an Academy school then I would suggest setting up faculty iTune accounts for Free Apps. Again, the apps can sync onto all the iPads linked to the same faculty iTune account.
Please click on the link below to access guidance for setting up a Free iTune Account.
How to set up a Free iTune Account
Please click on the link below to access guidance to enable Automatic Downloads for apps on your iPads.
When you get to the point where you would like to buy apps then please log a call with susan.sey@aberdeenshire.gov.uk who will create an Apple Volume Purchasing Account for your school. I will add another post re the Apple Volume Purchasing Programme for Education.
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