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It’s Back! Digital Afterschool Club starts in November

Posted on October 26, 2012 by scipmark

After a great first run at the end of the last school year the Digital Afterschool Club starts again at Elm Grove in November. The Club is for any child in Years 4, 5 or 6 and will run on … Continue reading →

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Afterschool Club Showreel

Posted on September 26, 2012 by scipmark

The children who joined us for the first digital afterschool club were true pioneers, helping us create a new kind of afterschool club. Take a look at the showreel to see just some of the great stuff they got up … Continue reading →

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Week one…. and they’re off!

Posted on May 9, 2012 by scipmark

A dozen nine and ten year olds turned up at the first ever Digital Afterschool Club on Thursday 3 May and spent 90 minutes having lots of fun making avatars, building surveys and, um, recording their flatulence on an ipod…

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What will we do for ten weeks?

Posted on April 3, 2012 by scipmark

Vicky, Helen, Esther and I met today to continue a discussion started last week by Matt, Mick, Helen and I [we have a great crew on board, we just can’t seem to be in the same place at the same … Continue reading →

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How can we teach how to code when we don’t know how to do it ourselves?

Posted on April 3, 2012 by scipmark

We just had a great meetup to discuss the launch of the Digital Afterschool Club at Elm Grove School in May. Vicky, Helen, Esther and I reviewed various elements of the workshop plan that Esther has prepared – more about … Continue reading →

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Workshop ideas for the afterschool club

Posted on March 4, 2012 by scipmark

Here are the workshop ideas gathered by the lovely people at our session at Day 1 of CityCamp2: Use a Raspberry Pi to programe a drum machine weekly/termly target or challenge set for members as per codeyear.com make TV show/news … Continue reading →

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Working with local digital community

Posted on March 4, 2012 by scipmark

Funding for a pilot phase would give us chance to work out how best to connect with the local network of digital creatives. Here are some thoughts about that: we mean anyone with skills that will help the children use … Continue reading →

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How will the sessions work?

Posted on March 3, 2012 by scipmark

One of the immediate concerns we have is how the sessions will work. Here’s where we’re at. We envisage that the sessions will be: every week, for 90 minutes will run every week of term time could also run as … Continue reading →

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Why we need the money

Posted on March 3, 2012 by scipmark

An idea similar to this had been bubbling around for a year or so, with vague promises amongst a few parents of a session in a child-friendly pub one Sunday afternoon. As CityCamp2 swung into view we decided it was … Continue reading →

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Not just Afterschool Clubs

Posted on March 3, 2012 by scipmark

We had a great day at CityCamp and it was immediately obvious that this idea strikes a chord with a lot of different people. It was also clear that Afterschool CLubs may make a useful starting point but there are … Continue reading →

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