Dec 9, 2022Weeknote 9th December 2022 — Amsterdam, Analysis and Work ExperienceStarted the week with a long weekend visiting Amsterdam. Discovered and enjoyed some great spots. In addition to the famous spots, I’d recommend the forward looking NXT Museum of interactive digital art, which was itself recommended to me by Doug Belshaw. We also had a great evening at the ‘Pesca…3 min read3 min read
Nov 16, 2022Starting at Government Digital ServiceIt’s been getting on for four months now since I started at GDS, so I thought I’d share a bit about this move and what I am up to. I’d been in my previous organisation for over six years. This is the longest I’d ever been in a particular job…2 min read2 min read
Nov 16, 2022Moving on from The Raspberry Pi FoundationI made it a bit of tradition to write a post reflecting at each career change I’ve been through. …4 min read4 min read
Nov 16, 2022Taking conferences online during the pandemicIt’s been a really challenging year for everyone, in so many ways, and one of the challenges we have faced is what to do with the plans we had to run a computing education research conference in Cambridge in April. …6 min read6 min read
Mar 5, 2020Join our schools addressing Gender Balance in ComputingAs part of the National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE), my team at Raspberry Pi Foundation are working on an exciting research project to explore ways to enable more girls to benefit from studying Computing. …Education2 min readEducation2 min read
Jan 10, 20193 ways to tame Google apps notificationsI’ve used Google Apps for the last 5 years at my last two organisations. It’s a fantastic tool, but I find that when you’re using calendar and docs/drive your email inbox easily becomes full of notifications. I’ve discovered three tricks to tame this, and to keep notifications out of your…3 min read3 min read
Dec 6, 2018Who comes to Code Club?At the Raspberry Pi Foundation I’ve been working on better understanding who we’re reaching with our education programmes. As many of them are run by volunteers and teachers, we have to do some extra work to find out about the young people we are reaching. …1 min read1 min read
Nov 20, 2018How children make digital projects: Research from Coolest Projects 2018I’m lucky in my job to get to spend lots of time talking to young makers about the projects they make. Back in the summer we undertook a research project at the Raspberry Pi Foundation to document in detail a sample of projects from the ‘Coolest Projects’ events and explore…Coderdojo2 min readCoderdojo2 min read
Oct 3, 2018How to give feedback on documentsCollaborative, online writing tools like Google Docs, etherpad and Office 365 make it really easy to share documents and ask for feedback from anyone and everyone. Previously I wrote my advice on ‘Getting feedback on documents’ , but what about when you are asked to give feedback to someone? …4 min read4 min read
Sep 8, 2018Digital Making Educators: A look into the communitySince 2014 the Raspberry Pi Foundation has been building a community of educators committed to bringing digital making to young people. More than 1500 educators have now been through our Picademy training and become Raspberry Pi Certified Educators, creating a community across the UK, North America and the world who…Certified Educators4 min readCertified Educators4 min read
