Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Step-by-step "Space Invaders" videos

The notion of flipped learning that I mentioned in my last post is something new to me and which I'm only just beginning to explore. It's certainly something that lies behind my motivation for creating these videos. I'm hoping to encourage students to access these resources independently so that in lessons we can take learning to much deeper level than would be possible without the videos.

Here we have a set of 6 step-by-step videos that guide the viewer through the creation of Defenders of Mars - a Space Invaders style game in Scratch. Feel free to use them and, please, let me know how you get on.

Step-by-step Pacman Videos

Here it is . . . My first ever blog post! I see this as the start of a project inspired by the Computing at School Community and teachers such as Mr Colley. What is the project? I'm not entirely sure at this point. What I do know, though, is that I want to explore the notion of flipped learning in my Computing lessons and that I want to freely share the creative results, the resources, that come from that exploration. We shall see where it leads . . .

My first resource is a set of 11 step-by-step videos that guide the viewer through the creation of the classic Pacman Arcade game. Please let me know if you find them useful.