@MarkHay79

Scottish Secondary Computing teacher. Google Educator | Apple Teacher | All of my opinions are my own!

 Aberdeen
Joined March 2011
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Teacher of Technological Education - Robert Gordon's College (Aberdeen) Hi folks, appreciate if you could share amongst any friends/colleagues who may be looking to join a great school. Closing Date: 5th May 2026 rgc.aberdeen.sch.uk/about/wo…

Working at Robert Gordon's College | Independent Nursery and School Aberdeen

If you come to work at Robert Gordon’s College, you will be joining a school community with a very strong sense of identity, built on our history and tradition of excellence. Beyond the history and...

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Fancy being head of CS department @HSofG? Brilliant opportunity. #TeachComputingScience
Computing Science Scotland@CompSciScot28 Aug 2024
📣Great opportunity for Computing Science teachers looking for a new challenge...💻🦄 @HSofG are looking to appoint a full-time, permanent head of CS teacher @GlasgowCC - jobs.scis.org.uk/job-66ce4c6… #TeachComputingScience
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Our team getting ready for their 1st match at Lego League. #FIRSTLEGOLeagueChallenge @robertgordons
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I'm team #GIF. How do you pronounce it?

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northvu@northvu11 Jan 2024
A new ddd scenario from this evening’s tutorial. Starting very soon.
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We are back again for the second SDD session for this years upskill course is starting with 4 more amazing hosts! Lucinda, Conor, @MarkHay79 and @tonyharkins #UpSkillWithSTACS #ByTeachersForTeachers
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I’m sure a lot of other Computing teachers in Scotland now looking at alternatives now that @Replit are deprecating Edu Teams as of tomorrow. Made such a great product and now the rug being pulled out midway through the academic year… @CompSciScot @stacshq
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From a colleague sqlitebrowser.org is looking quite promising for N5/H DB

DB Browser for SQLite

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Replying to @all_about_code @edu_blocks
Thanks, will have a look.
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classroom.github.com also on my list to investigate.

Thank you for being part of the GitHub Classroom journey 🎓 · community · Discussion #205975

GitHub Classroom is now retired as we complete the transition to partner solutions GitHub Classroom has now reached the end of its journey. Since it launched ten years ago, over 3.73 million studen...

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Current thinking is Thonny for S1/2 perhaps. Pycharm for N5+ and a MySQL server for AH
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Happy to get involved with anyone looking at alternatives.
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@pycharm may be a good one for Higher and Adv Higher pupils. Unsure as to whether the free licenses are available for schools?
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Mr Neil@mrneil_CS14 Nov 2023
And now @Replit your getting rid of Team for Edu effectively immediately, with no consultation. All because teachers requested the ability to turn off the AI, so we could teach our students to code. Not the news you want to hear in the middle of an academic year. @CompSciScot
Mr Neil@mrneil_CS14 Nov 2023
Replying to @Replit
@Replit Why the huge increase in price? $74 I could justify to keep material private from learners, and ensure assessments were secure. But $220 is not justifiable. Any chance of a middle ground between Starter & Core?
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UK Bebras and OUCC calendar updated for this academic year: bebras.uk/index.php?action=c… Looking forward to see how well, experienced and new school students, aged 6-18, handle this year’s challenges.
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The first SDD session for this years upskill course is starting with 4 more amazing hosts! Lucinda, Conor, @MarkHay79 and @tonyharkins #UpSkillWithSTACS #ByTeachersForTeachers
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Unless the @replit AI can be disabled in teams for Edu looking to alternatives for teaching. Looking at probably back to IDLE (S1-S4) and PyCharm for H and AH. Probably just MySQL for DB - all free options but is anyone using alternatives?
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Higher is maybe a bit more safer standard algorithms as it seems the AI generation relies (sensibly) on predefined functions etc. but file read/write is fairly as i would teach it :-(
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📢Another huge success for day two of the #STACSVirtualFestival a big thank you to all our speakers @InvernessHighCS, Sara @StNiniansComp & @pattyneta. Our brilliant hosts @MarkHay79 @Debbie_Kennedy @tonyharkins & everyone who attended. 💙 Day 3 tomorrow stacs.scot
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📣2 hours until day two of our #STACSVirtualFestival! Our hosts tonight are the lovely @tonyharkins & @MarkHay79 Sign up to stacs.scot #ByTeachersForTeachers
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Some of the drive links on my N5/H sites weren't working. Remade the links and all seems to be well again, please let me know! H site next for a bit of a refresh soon... N5 sites.google.com/rgc.aberdee… H sites.google.com/rgc.aberdee…

National 5 Computing Revision

The purpose of this site is to help you in revising for your National 5 Computing Course. The current course specification for N5 Computing Science from the SQA can be found here. There are 4 Main...

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