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Monday, 23 January 2012

Genius schedule

Attached is an electronic version of the genius CPD sessions.

It may be useful to highlight sessions in forthcoming performance management interim reviews.

Any questions please ask

Wednesday, 18 January 2012

In the light of recent news stories, this site may be of some use?

http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/

Attached is the curriculum, produced by a working party within CAS, describes in concrete terms what a Computing curriculum at school might look like. It uses the same structure as the National Curriculum Programmes of Study: importance of the discipline; key concepts; key processes; range and content; and level descriptors. It is not cast in stone, so please send feedback.

Sopa Blackout

Viewpoints: Sites go offline in US piracy laws protest
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16604990

Friday, 13 January 2012

New Robots

Really loved these at BETT yesterday. Only £12000 each!

Friday the Thirteenth,

It's Friday the thirteenth,

First of all, have you ever researched (read: looked up on Wikipedia) the origin of Friday the 13th? So sayeth the oracle:

The fear of Friday the 13th is called friggatriskaidekaphobia (Frigga being the name of the Norse goddess for whom "Friday" is named and triskaidekaphobia meaning fear of the number thirteen), or paraskevidekatriaphobia a concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví (Παρασκευή, meaning "Friday"), and dekatreís (δεκατρείς, meaning "thirteen") attached to phobía (φοβία, from phóbos, φόβος, meaning "fear"). The latter word was derived in 1911 and first appeared in a mainstream source in 1953.