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Hands on support session – Promethean workshop 12 – Blackburn March 2014MAKEY MAKEYYes. You can turn bananas or other fruit into interfaces and control a computer application with your feet!!!Makey Makey is very simple - you can use other things like fruit, metal foil or your skin to act like keyboard presses. ?When used with something like Scratch or Lego WeDo, the creative potential is huge.???Algodoo (FREE for PC, cheap for MAC and iPad)A powerful simulator of Newtonian physics and ideal for making physics ideas like harmonic motion, acceleration, gravity and energy, come to life.There is a classflow lesson with ideas here. ??? The built in "crash course" in Algodoo explains everything.??Lego Wedo?A combination of a kit and a simple, block based programming language that lets students explore physical computing. Once the students have mastered the example designs and programs they can create their own.Wedo has a USB connected hub and has a light/proximity sensor, a motion sensor and a motor. ?It is easy to use on a touchscreen like a Promethean Activpanel or Activboard.Scratch (FREE)This is the most popular and well supported tool for students to create animations and interactive content while learning key principles of computing.You can use Scratch online using a a Flash enabled browser or download an offline version.??(offline version)There is a Scratch Education User Community:? can also use the Lego Wedo sensors and motors with Scratch?Arduino (free software and cheap hardware)This is popular to explore physical computing and interfaces. There is an open source hardware (we used an Arduino Uno) and free software. The hardware has many digital and analogue inputs and can control motors and light. ?Extra "shields" add extra hardware for things like powerful motor control or connecting to the internetProgramming is usually done with the free Arduino software.? is a special version of Scratch that provides a simple way to explore the various interfaces of the ArduinoThe software and special firmware can be downloaded from:? StoryVisualiserThis works with cameras like the?Promethean Actiview?and lets students create storyboards and comicsSimilar software is Comic Life?iStopMotion: Stop MotionThis is a simple to use but very high quality animation program and can be used with clay, paper & card or other things to create stop motion animation. It works very well with the?Promethean Actiview Instruments SensorTagThis is actually a developer kit but it also provides a very cheap wireless sensor that can track temperature, humidity, acceleration, magnetic fields and distance as well as button presses. ?It communicates with BlueTooth Low Energy (BTLE) with apps on popular devices? ................
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