Happy New Year everyone!
We have a new one-day CPD event for teachers on Saturday 10th February taking place at King’s College London from 9.30am to 5pm, £15 (this includes a Makey Makey to take home).
Eventbrite registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/makey-makey-workshop-with-tom-heck-from-the-makey-team-tickets-42037489262
This is a fabulous opportunity to learn about making with the Makey Makey from Tom Heck. A train the trainer event for educators who expect to teach others on introducing STEM through physical computing with the Makey Makey.
Welcome and afternoon tea/coffee will be provided but to keep costs down please bring your own lunch. Please also bring a laptop! (See further info on lunch and laptops below)
PROGRAMME
- 9:30 – 10:00 Registration and Refreshments (tea/coffee & breakfast pastry)
- 10:00 – 12:00 Morning Session
- 12:00 – 1:00 Lunch – please bring your own, or pop out for a sandwich
- 1:00 – 5:00 Afternoon session (includes a tea/coffee break)
- 5:00 Close
Really important bit about laptops
Please bring your own laptop. Everyone needs to bring a laptop and their charging cable. The following computers work well: Chromebook, Mac, Windows, Linux. Do not bring tablets because they will not work. Regardless of the kind of laptop used, it must have the ability to plugin a USB “type A” plug – these are the most common type of USB plugs and it’s how the Makey Makey is connected to a computer. Some new laptops don’t accept a USB type A plug so the user must supply their own adaptor (“dongle”).NOTE: If you have a school issued laptop please check with your IT people to make sure your laptop will work with a Makey Makey!
Lunch options
Waterloo station is full of snack places, Benugo upstairs, M&S downstairs, outside the station there are Sainsbury’s and Tesco types of mini-supermarket.