Latest: Donna reports back about our amazing Raspberry Jams in Fiji
What’s it all about? In December 2016, People in IT Director Donna Comerford lead an ambitious project to run Raspberry Jams in three places across the Fijian Islands. The adventure was funded with a lot of help from Barclays Digital Eagles and a host of important and generous donors via…
Fiji Raspberry Pi – Countdown T-3 days
It's now late November and the excitement is at fever pitch with just three sleeps to go until we head to Fiji. Thanks to generous funders we have 10 sets of Raspberry Pi, HDMI cables, SD cards, mice and flexible keyboards. @BarclaysUK kindly donated 50 BBC Microbits which will also…
And now for our next project: Raspberry Jam Fiji
[caption id="attachment_1048" align="alignleft" width="263"] Mice, SD cards and HDMI cables. Vital kit if you're working with Raspberry Pi[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1049" align="alignleft" width="265"] First of the kit to arrive. We saved a lot of our budget by buying from Chinese suppliers.[/caption] Picture this:…
Level Up – Micro Taster
Level Up will give you a taste of the skills required by the Creative Industries by working in a team and presenting ideas for a media campaign for a client Brighton Digital Festival & Our Future City present Level Up. Each of the 180+ events of Brighton Digital Festival requires…
Brighton Digital Festival Week 1 2016
Goodness what a full week! Brighton Digital Festival is running from 1 - 30 September and is full of events from Arts, Tech, Business, Digital and Education. Blockbuilders began the Education strand of #BDF16 on 1 September with a great Minecraft town planning event. We also had a lot of…
Creative Choices for National Citizen Service 31 July 2016
Another great group of young people participating in the National Citizen Service awaited me at the University of Essex. Each workshop explores the Creative Industries and potential routes for young people. During the morning smaller groups worked on themes they are concerned/passionate about. Once again I was impressed and surprised…
The Children’s Media Conference 2016
My Jet Set lifestyle took me to Sheffield to the Awesome Children's Media Conference. The fabulous @sharnajackson suggested me for the Minecraft University panel and James @Pluginedia asked me to moderate the session. I had so much fun meeting everyone: Stuart Ball @innovativeteach @SollyTheKid Wizard Keen @thecommonpeople @blockbuildersUK. Here are…
Creative Choices
I missed the beginning of Pirate Day 2016, but for excellent reasons. I was at Canterbury Christ Church University in Chatham, running a workshop for young people about the Creative Industries. An amazing morning working with young people as part of the National citizen Service. I found out what young…
The Big Bang South East and No 34 Lotte Reiniger Fun – Long Week
Its been an incredibly busy week, most of the team were @TBB_SouthEast with 7000 young visitors. Saturday saw us on the road again at No34 Sittingbourne High Street for Ideas Test. Our young artists were creating work in the style of Lotte Reiniger.
RX Makers 18 June 2016
We have 2 sessions on Saturday 18 June: 11:00 to 13:30 Arts Award Animation & Robotics 14:00 to 16:30 Arts Award Animation & Robotics We will be looking at the Artist Lotte Reiniger recently featured in a Google Doodle. Â Exploring other artists who have worked in a similar style and…