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Written to go hand in glove with Blippit’s App Maker over a half-term including video links and more for use in class.
Also included is a bonus mini-unit that we suggest you use as a ‘warm up’ lesson to heighten awareness of and increase ‘code curiosity’ in the children.
It’s all step-by-step with ready-to-go plans and videos built in so depending on your confidence level you can use it as is or do a bit of computing jazz and give it your own flavour.
Just click below to download the free PDF
That’s the phrase that summed up day one (UPDATE: & Day 2) for Craig Wallace on the stand and he is not prone to exaggeration 😉 We were supporting and listening in thanks to the magical powers of social media and live stream and it really was a day crammed with teachers soaking up the CPD opportunities of which there were many.
We’ve done our best to Storify our tweets and those of teachers with whom we connected. This was an incredible event for us and we’re so grateful for everyone who came to see us to learn more about Blippit’s App Maker and other computing tools.
We were asked by so many people who they might get involved that it we’re now actively seeking out people who might suit becoming learning champions – Blippit Ambassadors. If that’s something you’d like to know more about just email craig.wallace@blippit.com.au
If you’re feeling really brave scroll right to the bottom of this post to see what happens virtually at Blippit Australia HQ. This is not the kind of Python we like.
There’s currently a bloke down here drinking a VB tally and chucking his pet snake around. Amazing
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All software applications have bugs – some cause no real problems and go unnoticed, others are minor and a minority wreak havoc. You might be surprised to hear that software providers LOVE hearing about possible bugs via bug reports. They love it even more if the steps that lead up to the strange behaviour can be replicated by their Application Development Team because this means the bug is real and can be fixed.
Without the help of users (essentially many hands and eyes) application developers can’t hope to capture every bug for debugging try as they might.
In the classroom it’s a fantastic exercise to give students a simple program with a bug or two it. This way they really REALLY have to
Here at Blippit we were able to find and de-bug a FANTASTIC bug in quick fashion this month thanks to two schools who took the time to file a bug report (they told us about it basically) to support@blippit.co.uk . This lead to more detailed info gathering, a school visit from us and finally within a week and a half a global update of Blippit IO. They helped us improve Blippit IO in a measurable way for the thousands of students and teachers who are using Blippit IO across the UK, Australia and US.
If you’re a lovely Blippit IO User, we are going to make it nice and easy for you to report anything that feels like a bug to you soon. More about that to follow.
This is a ‘top tip’ blog post for all Blippit IO Admins who have the job of saying yes/no and providing feedback on submitted apps from students.
How to control whether apps are showcased in Planet Blippit or still go live but ‘not’ appear in Planet Blippit.
The Administrator clicks the ‘View App’ button
and a QR Code will be created for you to scan with *Blippit Torus and get the app.
*Blippit Torus has not been published just yet but we hope to bring good news soon
We’ve designed this to be super easy as you’d expect and the end result is that
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