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SLF10 MarioKart Challenge

Mario Kart Competition @ SLF10 Calling all Jenson Button and Lewis Hamiltons of the future. Would you like to race head to head, in front of a live audience and win the title of SLF10 MarioKarter...

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Consolarium Podcast 5: Samba de Amigo inspired learning

The latest edition of the Consolarium podcast is now available. You can subscribe to the podcast from itunes via this link or listen to it via the embedded player. Super samba inspired learning in...

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Mario Kart Leaderboards

Dum! dumdumdum! dumdum! dumdumdumdum! <cue Murray Walker voice> ………….and there goes Mario! ………………and there goes Luigi! F1 season is well underway and all over Scotland schools are taking up the...

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Kodu Training Responses and Next Steps

Last week, Charlie posted a summary of our 2 day Kodu training session with the Girvan Academy cluster schools.  We had 2 teachers from the secondary school, 12 from primary schoosl and 1 from the...

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EyePet as CfE

For a number of months I have been doing some work in and around South Lanarkshire authority, first of all with Aubrey Taylor  from the Advisory Service running staff development and latterly with  the...

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Falkirk Guitar Heroes

I had a most enjoyable and very interesting day touring 4 schools in Falkirk who are all undertaking a transition project with Guitar Hero.  The teacher leading this within Falkirk, Stacey...

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EA Create: New Game, New Opportunities?

At the Consolarium, we are always eager to look for new games to add to our Game Based Learning projects. In mid November 2010, Electronic Arts will release EA Create. Create Game Info In Create, use...

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Scratch – itching for more?

Build Your Own Blocks MIT’s Scratch program has become a firm favourite in Primary and Secondary schools all over Scotland.  It is a great tool to create a variety of interactive media resources such...

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Using Hardware Devices with Scratch/BYOB

As part of the game design work the Consolarium have been carrying out, we often visit subject leaders meetings and are invited to ISIS days to do some CPD with staff. Recently, I visited a group of...

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If you build it, they will come…

Actually, that should be “If they build, they will come….” Build what though? Enter Arduino. Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and...

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