Category Archives: Not in the exam

Google Drive Shared Area

March 20, 2013 Mr Stratton

I have been asked a few times for access to the presentations we have created in class. I have now created a shared Google drive area and sent invites out to your Glow addresses.

Feel free to download what you want and add to the shared presentations as you need. Remember this is a collaborative area so please be constructive and not destructive.

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New Links

March 15, 2013 Mr Stratton 4 Comments

Please keep an eye on the links at the side, I do update them regularly. They should be your first place to look for help, not Google.

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Ta Dah!

March 13, 2013 Mr Stratton

OK well that’s that up and working.

As I add the video to the playlist a tweet is generated with the video’s name and a link. I am not going in to a lot of depth about how I did it but I used https://ifttt.com/ and a bit of the YouTube API http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/PLYae7BnzE86l78uAS05pbILGXpjn6wkeq

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Blog layout and YouTube Playlists

March 13, 2013 Mr Stratton

OK so I may have went a bit mental on the playlists, but I have now split the single Higher playlist into 4 seperate areas.

I then went through the blog placed the best YouTube links in the correct folder, some we have used and some we have yet to use but have fun with them. While I am on don’t forget to look for other teachers doing the same thing.

I have however knackered the layout of the site a bit. I will be tweaking it over the next few days to get it how I want it.

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Computer Forensics

March 8, 2013 Mr Stratton

We talked about this today in class while we were discussing disk and hexadecimal editors.

Here is some of the latest research.

Computing Higher, Not in the exam

Degrees in Computing

March 7, 2013 Mr Stratton

Motherwell College is now offering the following degree courses in partnership with Edinburgh Napier University:

BSc IT Management
BSc Interactive Media Design
BEng Computing
BEng Computer Security and Forensics

The school leaver entry requirements are a minimum of CCC at Higher Grade*.

The first two years of each course will commence in August 2013 and will run at Motherwell College with year 3 (and possibly year 4) at Edinburgh Napier University. During the first two years there will be opportunities for students to visit the University.

*subject to approval

Computing Higher, Not in the exam

Can you do better?

March 6, 2013 Mr Stratton

Well the results are in BAFTA has spoken and awards have been issued, but amongst all the hubbub a team of new games developers was given an award for being the ones to watch.

The full list of awards is here. Here is the edited version

Best game – Dishonored
Best online browser game – SongPop

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Next Step Links

February 25, 2013 Mr Stratton

I have added a few new next step links on the page. If you have any other suggestions please keep them coming in.

Computing Higher, Not in the exam, Revision

Tomorrow’s NAB

January 17, 2013 Mr Stratton

I have decided to postpone this till after the prelims.

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New Layout

December 5, 2012 Mr Stratton

OK I have played with the layout a little and added in some behind the scenes stuff. I noticed that the YouTube videos are not displaying in Chrome but appear fine in IE, I will have a look at the code, could be that one of the plugins is interfering with the script.

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