{"id":1611,"date":"2015-11-09T14:08:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T14:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2015-11-09T14:08:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T14:08:27","slug":"computing-at-schools-scotland-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/computing-at-schools-scotland-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Computing At Schools Scotland Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computingatschool.org.uk\/index.php?id=cas-scotland\">CAS Scotland<\/a> Conference was held on Saturday at the University of Dundee. It&#8217;s invariably a good event, with a good attendance, and this year was no different. The event is designed for school teachers, although some college and university lecturers also attend.<\/p>\n<p>The event is a mix of keynotes, seminars and presentations. There were sessions on National 5 and Higher Computing Science, widening access to university, Google Classroom, games based learning, and object oriented concepts, to name just a few. I particularly enjoyed the seminar on <a href=\"https:\/\/classroom.google.com\/\">Google Classroom<\/a>, given by Charlie Love who showcased how it can be used to manage learners and create content.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/Charlie-at-CAS15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1612\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/Charlie-at-CAS15-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Charlie at CAS15\" width=\"424\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a>\n<p>I gave a presentation on National Qualifications in Cyber Security. It was well attended and appeared to be well received.\u00a0There remains a great deal of interest in these new qualifications from schools and colleges, and I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/considering-offering-cyber-security\/\">encouraged teachers<\/a> to offer them.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/Bobby-at-CAS15.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1613\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/Bobby-at-CAS15-300x224.jpeg\" alt=\"Bobby at CAS15\" width=\"433\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a>\n<p>The CAS Scotland event is well organised and full of interesting seminars and presentations. It remains one of the most interesting events in my calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s CAS Scotland Conference was held on Saturday at the University of Dundee. It&#8217;s invariably a good event, with a good attendance, and this year was no different. The event is designed for school teachers, although some college and university lecturers also attend. The event is a mix of keynotes, seminars and presentations. There were sessions on National 5 and Higher Computing Science, widening access to university, Google Classroom, games based learning, and object oriented concepts, to name just&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-cyber-security","category-event","category-npa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}