Skill Building

18 thoughts on “Skill Building”

1. Florence Ravenhall August 28, 2011 at 16:32

   Thanks for sharing these resources , especially on Scratch and Kodu – am trying to learn more about both of these. They have given me some good ideas.
   Good luck for the new term.
2. Nicki Post authorAugust 30, 2011 at 20:54

   Glad you’re finding them useful. Best of luck to you too.
3. Kevin Tiernan May 20, 2012 at 10:30

   Hi Nicki
   I love your resources and advertise your wealth of knowledge, everywhere I go. What are your thoughts about the new ICT curriculum and the use of programming into the SoW. Python, Kudo, Scratch 2.0, Alice etc. Are you doing any rsources for KS3? Have you got any recomendations? I have signed up to “http://www.udacity.com/courses” which runs a free course on Python. Oh and my school is very close to Bletchley. How cool is that?
   All the best
   Kevin
4. Nicki Post authorMay 23, 2012 at 17:39

   Hi Kevin

   Thank you for your lovely comment. I have re-written a lot of our KS3 curriculum over the last year and also have the Kodu scheme of work which is on here. I have to add some of the other resources on actually (probably a half-term job). I’ve never really looked into Python or Alice but have used Microsoft’s Small Basic which is very good and has a nice interface. This is something we are looking at embedding into our Year 10 curriculum but if I am teaching Year 9 next year I might looking into writing a SmallBasic scheme of work to give them the basics of programming. Watch this space . . .

   Scratch 2.0 also looks very good.

   What a perfect opportunity for an ICT school trip, Bletchley Park! 🙂
5. Gareth James June 26, 2012 at 14:55

   Hi Nicki,
   Love your resources. I’ve been integrating them into a lot of my lessons and they are really helpful.

   I was just wondering if you had lesson one for the Word skill building module and whether you had the matching assessment sheets for them all?
6. Nicki Post authorJuly 12, 2012 at 09:27

   For the first lesson we just go over classroom rules and sensible file names and file structures etc. That’s why there is no “Lesson 1” on there.

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8. James Crowe July 12, 2013 at 08:30

   Great resources…and presented clearly..trying to move to this formate of online using Google sites any tips?
9. Steve Jenkinson March 5, 2014 at 09:37

   Nicki you may want to look at http://www.youthdigital.com/mod-design-1.html that offers a course in creating your own minecraft mod and learning Java to do it.

   I’m completing the course with my 6 year old who is desperate to learn it!
10. Nicki Post authorMarch 6, 2014 at 13:19

    Thanks, I’ll add that to my “to do” list of things to look at. Certainly looks interesting and am impressed your 6 year old is learning Java. 🙂
11. Encarna June 18, 2014 at 09:15

    Hi Nicky
    What a lovely and valuable set of resources. I will surely use them with newcomers and extra units, and they are also useful to set a knowledge base on essential ICT skills. Thanks for your generosity!
12. Farah June 19, 2014 at 21:23

    Such lovely resources, thank you so much for sharing them. You really are an inspiration to us slightly less creative and imaginative teachers (I mean me!).

    Do you happen to have any of the editable sheets for the Skills Builder unit?

    Thanks again for sharing 🙂 x
13. Nicki Post authorJune 22, 2014 at 19:35

    Hi Farah

    Thanks for your lovely comment. Drop me an email with the sheets that you need and I’ll send them to you. My email address is on the Contact page.

    Nicki
14. Nicki Post authorJune 22, 2014 at 19:38

    Thanks for your lovely comment Encarna. Glad you like the resources 🙂
15. Moya Shannon September 26, 2014 at 07:51

    Thank you – thank you!!!! I’m a long-in-the-tooth enthusiastic older teacher, so much of the new computing curriculum is new to me – but your resources have taught me so much (!!!!)(Kodu) and they’re brilliant for my students. I’m using these PP resources because I love your presentation.
16. Zubair Khan January 6, 2015 at 15:03

    Fantastic website, fantastic resources, you are a top girl!!! thanks so much for this.
17. dawn lea September 28, 2017 at 08:51

    Nicky I find your website invaluable. You have produced some great resources. Thank you!
18. Nicki Post authorOctober 16, 2017 at 11:19

    Thank you. I’m glad you find it useful.