@SheliBB

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Name: Sheli Blackburn
Date registered: February 29, 2012

Biography

Advanced skills teacher

Latest posts

  1. Our fantastic field trip to the Apple Store — May 21, 2013
  2. Computing with year ones — May 3, 2013
  3. Teaching computing skills to the teachers in KS2 — May 2, 2013
  4. Mini digital leaders — April 26, 2013
  5. Teaching the teachers! — April 25, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. Teaching our 2/1 children by Roydon DLs — 6 comments
  2. Edmodo tutorial — 5 comments
  3. Mini digital leaders — 4 comments
  4. Logo competition winners! — 4 comments
  5. Elm Park Primary School — 4 comments

Author's posts listings

May 21

Our fantastic field trip to the Apple Store

Today the digital leaders at Roydon were lucky enough to visit the Apple Store in Norwich for a field trip. I’ll let one of them tell you about it. You can also read some more of their thoughts on their personal blog. When we got to the Apple store today we were met by Barney, …

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May 03

Computing with year ones

    This morning I hosted a year 1 computing event for our local cluster schools. Two of my more confident mini digital leaders helped out. We had a great time with beebots, probots, computer games and ipad apps. We learned what an algorithm is and how it doesn’t always involve a computer. We had a lot …

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May 02

Teaching computing skills to the teachers in KS2

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Today we are teaching the KS2 teachers from our school and three other schools. Some of  apps we are teaching are: Beebot, A.L.E.X, Cargo bot and Cato’s Hike.  Emily, a digital leader  from Roydon Primary (our school) said: “The teachers are all very good at working things out on  apps.” We also are showing websites …

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Apr 26

Mini digital leaders

Today Roydon mini digital leaders helped out at a year 2 computing enrichment morning. Children from other schools visited and learned some new things from our DLs. We all learned what algorithm means and how to write simple programmes. Some of the favourites were Charlie Chimp, A.L.E.X, Cato’s hike and create a car. We also …

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Apr 25

Teaching the teachers!

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Today we have been teaching key stage 1 and EYFS teachers about apps on the ipads and programs on the computers so they are ready for the new computing curriculum. We have been teaching them things like A.L.E.X, Daisy Dino, Toca Boca, cargo bot, Cato’s hike, Broom Broom and Charlie Chimp. Next week we will …

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Apr 23

Nightzookeeper and Digital Leaders at Elm Park Primary

Another great guest post by our @nightzookeeper friends! We delivered a Night Zookeeper day at the amazing Elm Park Primary school last week. However, this day was not just about magical animals and and self expression. The teachers leading this project have decided to bring in digital experts from classrooms across the school to mentor …

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