Category: Interests
-
I don’t just code, I dig, shovel, and carry heavy stuff!
This year I decided to blog, really blog! That will mean posts about everything from baking apple crumble with the kids to my professional web development. My decision to share more was a moment during winter, while I stood outside in the rain, snow, wind, hail, and mud. Lots and lots of mud…plus tonnes of…
-
Children Participate, they don’t Win and they don’t Lose
When I was at School, we won or we lost. Participation was a giving, need to be in it to win it. You would be right in assuming that I didn’t always win and I didn’t get picked for the School football team. I admit not being picked for the team caused new feelings at…
-
CODE Portal Creator Responsibilities
I am the creator of CODE Portal and after finding a “Teacher of Computing” vacancy in my own town I discovered that I might have new responsibilities. After reading about the teaching position I realized that I’m not just creating a tool. I’m also acting as a teacher through that tool. I’m not a qualified…
-
CODE Portal Project Phases
Technically the project is bigger than this short list of phases but what I’m going to type here should help you to understand that the CODE Portal project is serious enough to be broken into many, equally important steps. Phase 1: Planning/Research Days of research has already gone into the CODE Portal project. Time has been…
-
CODE Portal Research Sources
CODE Portal is a little unorthodox in some ways so I had to do a lot of research. This post covers some of the sites I got to know and still need to iterate over for the sake of further clarity. I went through each of the websites below, one at a time, getting to know…
-
CODE Portal Prototype Needs Avenxo Theme by KaijuThemes
CODE Portal is an ambitious project for UK Primary Schools and potentially Secondary Schools much later in the future. The core idea behind CODE Portal is something much like Open-Source, that is what makes it a great idea. There many free online solutions for teaching coding, but CODE Portal will be owned by Schools and…
-
WordPres Plugin Seed Released
The first version of my boilerplate plugin, WordPress Plugin Seed, is now available. Get started on making a new plugin, quicker than ever, today! WordPress Plugin Seed is free and available to download from GitHub. Not Available on WordPress.org The official plugin repository no longer allows this type of plugin. So the normally, more secure…
Site Moved... 
You must be logged in to post a comment.