Learning Coding and ICT skills over the summer holiday

Scratch

Gives students a lot of freedom to make games, presentations and animations.  Here is the main site and some tutorials

Main Website: http://scratch.mit.edu/
Video Lessons: http://learnscratch.org/
Make a platformer videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVrrd27oCnp4QoVAehcs9nYEIdnyKCrBN

Kodu

Designed to teach some computational thinking through making 3D games. Requires a Windows PC download.

Website: http://www.kodugamelab.com/

Code.org

Great web-based set of fun tutorials to teach computational Thinking. Does not require any installation on a PC and works over most Internet connections.

Website: http://studio.code.org/

Codecademy

A more serious option, but one that teaches great skills such as coding Web-pages, Javascript and languages used by most computer scientists

Website: http://www.codecademy.com/

General ICT

Lots of courses for ICT on a wide range of applications. I'd recommend using PowerPoint and Excel (or equivalents) as the main applications to have a look at. on Alison.com
https://alison.com/

Why not do CPD with the children?

How do we know what children will think of our pedagogical innovations, new tech and ideas if they are not there to tell us?   So in that spirit, we're doing our CPD with the children in what can only be called a circus!  

We've collected together all the tech we can, so that the children and teachers can play together in a circus style event!

We've got Sphero

We've got MineCraft EDU with a live server running

We have the new version of Kano. Although it's on the original Raspberry Pi.

We have Lego WeDo

We have Kodu

We have a mystery spot the Semi-conductor parts game! 

We have celebrity teachers from all over Bangkok!

And we have something so hot, you can't even get it on the streets of Bangkok! 

Grab one of the last few tickets here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/geg-south-east-bangkok-tickets-17219559165