{"id":1075,"date":"2015-02-23T12:04:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T12:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2015-02-23T19:17:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T19:17:04","slug":"primarily-about-computing-links-to-lively-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=1075","title":{"rendered":"Primarily about computing: links to lively locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This post is first for the lovely, lively children at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.st-lukes.derbyshire.sch.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">St Luke&#8217;s School<\/a><\/strong>. We&#8217;re getting stuck into some computing with the Raspberry Pi computers we won for doing so well at the Hour of Code last year. But sometimes one of us (let&#8217;s be honest, usually one of the leaders) needs a little reminder or help. <\/p>\n<p>So here are some great sites with short videos, helpful tips and even ready-to-roll software. Try them at school or at at home!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/eu.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-1119046025.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Adventures in Raspberry Pi<\/strong><\/a>: we have our own copy of this book so you can find out more in ICT Club. Take a look at the videos at the bottom of the page &#8211; they should give you plenty of ideas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scratch ideas<\/strong> &#8211; which will work on your netbook or laptop too:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scratchyournose.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Scratch Your Nose<\/strong><\/a>: great ideas for Red Nose Day, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scratchyournose.com\/#!video-tutorials\/cccq\" target=\"_blank\">videos<\/a> to show you how to make them in Scratch. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/studios\/10493\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Scratch games<\/strong><\/a>: more inspiration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/googlecreativelab.github.io\/coder\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Coder<\/strong><\/a>: uses the Pi as a web server (just like Google!) so you can connect and create your own pages.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Raspberry Pi site<\/strong><\/a>: for lots more Raspberry Pi ideas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Let&#8217;s make music!<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sonic-pi.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sonic Pi<\/strong><\/a>: great free software for the Pi that you can also use on Windows or Mac computers<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.incredibox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Incredibox<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatlab.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Beatlab<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tony-b.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tony-b<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/soundation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Soundation<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Making web pages<\/h3>\n<p>Find out about those mysterious codes that make web page look good:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ult-tex.net\/info\/html\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>HTML tags cheat sheet<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/html\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>W3schools<\/strong><\/a>: if you want to get serious, you can learn a lot here!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is first for the lovely, lively children at St Luke&#8217;s School. We&#8217;re getting stuck into some computing with the Raspberry Pi computers we won for doing so well at the Hour of Code last year. But sometimes one of us (let&#8217;s be honest, usually one of the leaders) needs a little reminder or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=1075\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Primarily about computing: links to lively locations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-education","category-english-and-ict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}