CfE in Computing Science – Never been more creative!
I have a confession! I love Curriculum for Excellence. In computing it has revitalised my teaching and, together with my colleagues in …
Kincorth Transition Project from SLF11
I spoke today about some of the transition work I had supported in Games Design in the Kincorth associated schools group. The …
Time to get Agile
Ever since I entered teaching the debate on “How to teach programming” has been raging. It is still something that a great …
Computing Teachers? Time to wake up!
An opinion piece of the future of Computing in Scottish schools and ideas about how to take it forward. “I’m a computing teacher. I love it! I came into teaching after a few years in the IT industry and I loved the challenge and the opportunity to teach new things to learners and really show how technology can be used to create exciting things. From memory computing departments started to crop up in schools around 1984 and most schools had established a department by 1988. I started teaching in 1992 and at that time things like word processing, spreadsheets, databases and programming were all the rage. New software applications and, for most learners, the first experience they had of using a computer. It was an exciting time and there was a huge interest in the subject. In the minds of many parents it was THE subject that their child HAD to take….”
Groovy Dancer Tutorial – Parts 12-20
Videos 12 to 20 for Adobe Photoshop CS4. These take the “Groovy Dancer” tutorial close to completion in a set of easy to follow videos with commentary.
More Photoshop Tutorials
I adapted some of the great tutorials at http://photoshoptutorials.ws/ and these are included here. Unfortunately, no videos to go with them yet but we’ll see if I have time to do them later.
Adobe Photoshop: Groovy Dancer Tutorial
I love Photoshop. It’s the single piece of creative software that I use the most. From web design, artwork to games design; it covers all the bases. I’ve been working on converting a complex on-line tutorial into something which S2 pupils can cope with. I wanted to produce resources for this lesson which would allow each learner to proceed at his/her own pace and which would begin to get them thinking about using the software creatively. Here I share some video tutorials and support materials which I’ve developed for S2 pupils.
