Glossary of E-Safety Terms
The Internet and its associated services has spawned a wealth new terminology and redefined the many old words. Check out our useful glossary of good, bad and plain ugly words and phrases.
The Internet and its associated services has spawned a wealth new terminology and redefined the many old words. Check out our useful glossary of good, bad and plain ugly words and phrases.
What is History Lines? History Lines is a comprehensive resources that covers history as set out in the new National Curriculum. Its focus is on British history, but it includes views of Europe and the Wider World. It aims to:
“The Raspberry Pi is cheap.”
The RRP for a Raspberry Pi model B is £36. And yes, at a tenth of the cost of an iPad it’s within the range of most families, teenagers with a Saturday job and indeed schools. However, your £36 doesn’t get you a fully functioning, ready to program Pi. You need a few other bits and pieces if you want to do more than merely admire the circuitry. Unlike the iPad or indeed a laptop, Pis do not come with a fully integrated power supply, or a screen, or a keyboard, or a mouse. Not even a case! Without these things your Pi is just a circuit board. And these things will cost more than the Pi its-self.
Many of you have told us how much you love the History Cookbook http://cookit.e2bn.org/historycookbook/ with its useful and informative sections Food, Health and general background information on each period of British history.
You have also said that you would like us to expand these resources. So over the summer we have been busy moving the existing history sections of Cookit to a new site – History Lines www.historylines.e2bn.org, commissioning additional materials and ensuring that the whole lot is aligned to the new National Curriculum for History Programme of Study.
As with all great new ideas (and the Raspberry Pi is a great idea) there are lots of misconceptions and half-truths. So before you buy a Pi, read this first!
If you threw away your PC based machines when you fell in love with the iPad (or similar device) the Pi might be a good way to get your students interested in what actually happens inside a computer. For older students doing Computer Studies, the Pi is great because they can experiment with a computer that is separate to the main school network. You’d never allow students to ‘mess’ with the OS on a curriculum machine.