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Based in the Scottish Borders, David Bethune began his professional career as a teacher of Physics, then retrained in Computing, and worked in Hawick High School for 15 years, as PT Computer Education and as Assistant Headteacher. Since 2003, he has focussed on a variety of educational development roles, including delivering CPD to teachers, setting H and AH Computing exams, tutoring and lecturing to PGDE students at Edinburgh University, authoring materials for the SCHOLAR project, LTScotland and for sale throughout the UK, and occasional supply teaching for his former department. David is currently working mainly for SQA, developing new national qualifications in the technologies area. In his spare time(!), he is a photographer, hill-walker, Community Councillor, church activist, trustee/treasurer of several local charities and a grandpa! |
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Eric Forrester is an External Verifier for the SQA and has been a Principal Teacher of Computing and Computing Staff Tutor. He was part of the team that produced the teaching and learning materials for the original Higher Computing (and Standard Grade Physics) and also part of the SQA Qualification Design Team for the revised PC Passport courses writing Unit Specifications and ASPs at levels 4, 5 and 6. |
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Introduction to games development using Kodu
Tuesday 13th March 2012 - FULLY BOOKED -new date: Monday 21st May 2012
09.30 - 15.30
£159 plus VAT
Introduction to games development using Kodu Kodu is a free games development environment supported and distributed by Microsoft. Kodu allows the user to quickly create games that work in 3D. Kodu provides an easy-to-use games development environment that can be used by a wide range of abilities, making it particularly suitable for use with CfE Computer Science courses in S1 – S3, while also satisfying the requirements for the SQA course Computer Games Development at levels 4, 5 and 6. This one-day course will introduce teachers to Kodu and will provide them with teaching and learning materials that they can use with their pupils in their schools.
VB2005/2008/2010 for beginners (LEVEL 1)
Tuesday 6th March 2012
09.30 - 15.30
£159 plus VAT
An introduction to teaching programming and software development using VB2005/2008/2010 to Int 2 or S-grade level. The day is based around practical workshops covering the VB environment and all the basic VB constructs. It is intended for complete beginners to using VB.
VB2005/2008/2010 (LEVEL 2)
Wednesday 21st March 2012
09.30 - 15.30
£159 plus VAT
This course follows on from the VB2005/2008/2010 course, and is intended for those who have some experience of teaching using VB2005/2008/2010 or a similar programming language. Based on a series of practical workshop tasks, the course covers the use of procedures, user-defined functions and parameter passing, and an approach to teaching the Software Development Unit of Higher Computing.
Implementing Computing and Information Science at National 4 and 5 NEW COURSE
Wednesday 2nd May 2012
09.30-15.30
£159 plus VAT
Many schools are finding themselves in the situation that they have to start delivering the new National 4 and 5 courses in Computing and Information Science a year early. This course is to help departments plan their implementation to make the transition from Standard Grades/Intermediates to National 4 and 5 as smoothly as possible. It will help participants identify materials they already have that can be reused as well as those areas where new materials will be needed to deliver the new course. With that information, participants will draw up a calendar for delivering the new course, either as separately run levels or as a bi-level course.
Teaching Higher Computing
Course date coming soon
A one day overview of the Higher Computing course, especially suitable for teachers who are new to teaching Higher Computing. We will consider
- course content and planning
- choosing the optional unit
- available resources
- good principles in teaching Software Development
- preparing candidates for the coursework task
- applying AifL principles to Higher Computing
Getting to grips with Java using Greenfoot
Course date coming soon
You've used Scratch with your S3 class, but unsure what to do next...or you're wondering how to introduce object-oriented programming concepts to your AH Computing class. Greenfoot could be the answer! This course offeres a practical introduction to Greenfoot - no previous experience required.
Achieving Success in Advanced Higher Computing
Course date coming soon
This course will consider:
- course content and planning
- available resources - how to steer candidates through the Coursework project
- preparing candidates for the final exam
- applying AifL principles to AH Computing
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