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Peter Marshman
@petermarshman.bsky.social
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🦩Proud Charity CEO Digit<all>; 🖥️Secondary Expert BCS/CAS;
👨‍🏫AH and HoD Computing Education 20 years; 📖CS Author & Editor; 👩‍💻Girls in Computing Expert; 🌍Climate Education Advocate; 🧑‍🏫Trainer & Facilitator; 🐈Cat Mad! http://tiny.cc/pzyxzz
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Enjoyed a trip to Reading Public Museum for the new "Reading's Digital Revolution" exhibition 🤩 So much nostalgia seeing a ZX Spectrum like my first computer.

Great to see @digitallcharity.bsky.social involved, delivering community workshops! 🙌
#Computing #ComputerScience #Charity #Museum
April 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Fun day of #microbit #birdwatch madness with 130 pupils at RAL! We used AI to train micro:bits and count different species.
🐦 lnkd.in/e-YPBZz9 (resource)
📄 lnkd.in/ew5HYM2H (report)
🦆 lnkd.in/e2MQjWSs (blog)

@rspb.bsky.social @ukri.org @digitallcharity.bsky.social
#coding #birdwatch #STEM
February 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Register your interest for the next CAS Conference, this time in Bromsgrove, Birmingham:
tiny.cc/casconf_25
A great way to meet other computing teachers and gain inspiration for the classroom.
#Computing #CompSci #ComputerScience #Teachers #Educators
January 28, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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The 2025 CPD catalogue for Computing teachers from @digitallcharity.bsky.social - both primary and secondary is now available:
drive.google.com/file/d/1cjLL...
#cpd #computing #teachers #STEM #coding
January 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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The Computing Catalyst programme provides schools with support for CS lessons during unexpected periods where students don't have a specialist teacher. More info here:
www.digitall.charity/computingcat...
#Computing #Education #Support
January 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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The @digitallcharity.bsky.social CODE Awards enable teachers to nominate young people. The Coding Inspiration category enables teachers to nominate pupils for amazing school, home & enrichment activities
Certificates provided and awards up to £100💰
Find out more here: www.digitall.charity/codeawards
January 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Had a great day sharing the free support from @digitallcharity.bsky.social with teachers at Oxford Brookes thanks to @mwimpennys.bsky.social , @philwickins.bsky.social & @tigwilliams.bsky.social
Resources, grants, cpd, workshops, awards
www.digitall.charity
#Computing #Primary #Secondary
December 12, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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A new award has been added to the 🏆CODE Awards🏆 in the Digit Citizen category. Submit outstanding classwork, enrichment, projects etc. Students win 📄certificates, 🏆trophies & 💸Amazon vouchers:
www.digitall.charity/codeawards @archivesofit.bsky.social
#Awards #Computing #CSEd #DigitalLeaders
December 10, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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It's easier to plan your annual CPD for yourself or your MAT through the different journeys offered by Digit @digitallcharity.bsky.social ▶️ www.digitall.charity/multi-academ... or view all the free CPD here www.digitall.charity/eventsandcpd #CPD #Computing #Teachers #STEM
November 29, 2024 at 9:41 AM
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TEALS joins volunteers and schools interested in providing students with role models, context & enhanced subject knowledge. We have volunteers ready to support schools in Leeds, Milton Keynes, Northampton & Swindon.
www.bcs.org/deliver-and-...
#TEALS #TeamCompSci #CompSci #Computing
November 27, 2024 at 9:51 AM
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A fun new free download where pupils monitor noise pollution in two areas of their local community/school site and then use Canva to create visualisations to help them analyse and suggest improvements:
www.digitall.charity/product-page...
#coding #codeweek #EUCodeWeek #Canva #micro:bit
November 11, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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CodeWeek is fast approaching, don't forget to post computing activities in your school or community here: codeweek.eu
Some new CodeWeek resources and live lessons here:
www.digitall.charity/codeweek
www.digitall.charity/digitalllive
#CodeWeek #EUCodeWeek #HourofCode #Coding #TeamCompSci
October 7, 2024 at 9:27 AM
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Find out what students think about the amazing new Coding for Climate Action resources from Digit and Amazon in the recent impact report:
www.linkedin.com/posts/digita...
#TeamCompSc #Coding #Computing #ComputerScience #microbit
September 23, 2024 at 7:30 AM
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TEALS is an initiative where volunteers from industry volunteers support Computing teachers on a weekly basis to add capacity and provide exciting contexts. School can apply for this free programme via: www.bcs.org/deliver-and-...
#TeamCompSci
#Computing #Schools #DigitalSkills
September 17, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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You can find a huge list of available free CPD for primary and secondary Computing teachers from Digit for this academic year. All with a focus on creativity and context:
www.digitall.charity/events
#TeamCompSci #Computing #Teachers
September 17, 2024 at 7:50 AM
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Can you get inside the mind of an AI cat? Try the purring test :) www.ted.com/games/the-pu.... As a mad cat person I found this a lot of fun :) #TeamCompSci #ai #computing 🐈🐱
September 13, 2024 at 12:14 PM
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Had an awesome day in Brussels hearing great practice across Europe for computing. Latest project, reach 25M young people in two years. Let's go 👍 #teamCompSci #codeweek #eucodeweek #coding #computing
September 12, 2024 at 4:15 PM