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...
View ArticleConsolarium 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...
View ArticleMario 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...
View ArticleKodu 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...
View ArticleEyePet 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...
View ArticleFalkirk 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...
View ArticleEA 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...
View ArticleScratch – 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...
View ArticleUsing 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...
View ArticleIf 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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