I says wrote: » The home schooling and worrying about it is total dog****e. I’m out the country rural broadband not worth a toss alright on the phone. So no computer no printer or any of that ya can forget homework or projects for school. If these clowns forming a coalition have any sense( I doubt it) install spend the money on rural braodband it’s been neglected long enough. The chicken has come home to roost over it now with the covid crisis.
kollegeknight wrote: » I think it’s the right job. My head is addled with chasing work off students. Non exam classes on days like today should be offered creative ways to learn. For their well being, I wanted to send care packages to students that wanted them to include simple seeds. Get them to plant a small garden and photo as they go. But my principal didn’t want to do it. My old ag science teacher used to do it about 20 years ago and it was great. I have just persuaded her to let me order microbit kits for the fifth years to give them a chance to learn a bit about programming. They can be used in remote controls so it would help for next years projects also. To shake things up for my 5yo, I bought a simple chemistry kit and an electronics kit online. We made a simple radio yesterday and she was delighted with it.
raypallas wrote: » Practical teacher myself and I'm cutting them back more than loading them up. Good quality internet, device access and time available at home are all at a premium at the moment. There's a lot of stress out there in homes around the country over the whole situation
whelan2 wrote: » I neay had a meltdown here yesterday morning printing out young lads work. At least 20 pages. Printer jammed. Also ran out of ink. Couldn't get old cartridge out. Cut my finger. ....then I emailed the teacher about something else and he said there was no need to print the sheets out :eek:
raypallas wrote: » A fine start to a day! I wouldn't have access to a printer at home myself so I wouldn't expect too. There is a lot of work on the parents this distance learning crack!
theemigrant wrote: » Could you send me a link to where to but the electronics kit?
emaherx wrote: » What age kids? There is a massive selection of stuff out there from very basic to fairly advanced. Google: Microbit Makey makey Raspberry Pi Arduino I put up some pictures of a robot I built with the kids using a Raspberry Pi on the gunthering thread.
theemigrant wrote: » My little fella is 8 and we made a robot kit over xmas but would like more as he seemed to like it
Water John wrote: » Knight just inquiring, is your hay barn as nice as Claire Byrne's shed?
Say my name wrote: » How many of the high tech in Google are Irish? Non ex pats. Don't play the poor immigrant card with me. You know well I never mentioned refugees. That's that internet Facebook slang people post to make themselves look better. But since you have mentioned refugees. They do need to be housed too. And that does not make me rasict in case that's your next retort. And increased demand increases rent prices.
theemigrant wrote: » im working on it lol. Rollout is starting in the next few months
I says wrote: » :):) no excuses for me in a while so
gozunda wrote: » Have two bags from last year or so - 1 is of of Lime and 1 of fertiliser. Both pelleted and they look identical. Problem the labels are missing and I now cant remember which is which! Thought I'd be smart and test the contents of each for pH - but both are coming up as neutral! Any ideas?
jimini0 wrote: » Granlime is bigger that normal fertiliser. It's a light egg shell colour.
gozunda wrote: » Thanks for that. Problem is the pellets in both are a bit broken down from being moved and rebagged (original bags busted). Looking for a way to conform my suspicions which is which ...
raypallas wrote: » Microbit has free online software and the starter kit would be about 15 or 20 quid to get started off with.
kollegeknight wrote: » And in My subject engineering, they are one of the platforms that can be used for remote control of projects. And computer science studies them also so it creates a basis for those subjects.
emaherx wrote: » Think I'm going to get some of these for my kids too. The raspberry Pi is great for lots of things but it's overkill for small projects and requires maintaing a full OS as well. The Microsoft MakeCode looks good for programing it too and is similar to Scratch that they are already working with. I still like the Raspberrry Pi for larger projects and have one running the heating System in the house and lighting automations and electric fence control around the farm.
theemigrant wrote: » Thats very interesting. Any chance of you doing a thread on autonomous items around the farm?. A bit like the gunthering thread without the sledge hammers
kollegeknight wrote: » Ardruino is supposed to be a good kit too- it has more tilt switches and thermostats etc but easy enough to use- I’ve never used them though
