Look to the Future: A one day conference for Scottish Computing Educators

 

11 June 2010, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

 

 

Presentations for the event can be downloaded from this website (where possible).

Keynotes

• Unlocking the Clubhouse: Gender in Computing, Jane Margolis and Alan Fisher
• Scratch: Broadening Participation, Karen Brennan
• some useful links:
  • http://scratch.mit.edu/
  • http://scratched.media.mit.edu/
  • http://day.scratch.mit.edu/

Workshops & Sessions

 

Morning

• Working Together: School and University Projects Slides
• Curriculum for Excellence & the new higher SQA Slides LTS Slides
• A day in my life as a Software Developer
  • Peter Dickman - Google
  • Sarah Ronald - Bunnyfoot
  • Polly Purvis - Scotland IS
  • David Thomson - Ludometrics

  • some useful links:

    http://csi.dcs.gla.ac.uk/ : CSInside
    http://www.cs4fn.org/ : CS4FN
    http://bringitonni.info/ Bring IT On

Afternoon

• Beyond Current Horizons
• Emerging Technologies Panel
  • Cloud Computing 
  • Echoes  
  • Quantum Computing
• Making Games in Schools
• Web Filtering in the Classroom

Images from the event

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Scholar