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I go to quite a few networking events; dinners, talks, conferences and the like. I go to them because I almost always learn something and because I almost always meet someone interesting. A favourite of mine is 9others, which limits the number of attendees to 10 and... read moreZammer wins the Facebook / Gates Foundation Hack Ed 2.0 Hackathon
Facebook are famous for their hacking culture and employees frequently participate in internal hackathons to try out new ideas and generally build something cool that will impress their peers. Reportedly as many as 70% of hackathon projects ship and notable Facebook... read moreThe lean startup, the Hacker’s Way and the evolution of Necrotising Facebookiitis
“Doing a startup” isn’t easy. Reading tech blogs makes it looks easy. People with obscure ideas seem to raise inordinate amounts of funding with no actual product. Look at Color for pity’s sake... read moreA workshop on algorithms for primary schools
I recently ran a workshop on algorithms in the school where I am a governor (Bewdley Primary School) for a more able group of upper Key Stage 2 pupils (aged 9-11) from three of our four local primaries. This was in many ways the follow up to a workshop I ran last year... read moreKarmr – social sharing and rewarding of positive actions
It is undeniable that social media is a hugely powerful thing. Be it the ability to share your life’s experiences with friends and family on Facebook, follow up-to-the-minute buzz on Twitter or create photo or video logs of your life on Instagram or Vine, social... read moreKarmr and startup metrics for fat pirates
As some of you may know, Karmr is a social network for actions. It works a lot like other social networks except that, in the same way as Instagram and Vine chose to focus on a specific media type, we chose to focus on a topic type – things that people did.... read moreView My Full Blog
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I am a primary teacher (maths specialist) & I am Chair of Governors at a Primary School. I have been involved with the Computing at School since 2012 and hold the BCS Certificate in Primary Computing Teaching.
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I have a PhD in NMR (medicine with quantum mechanics) as well as a degree in biochemistry (Publications). I can program in JavaScript, Objective C & Swift with bits of others. I am also trying to get computer science into primary schools and later.
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