Paul Sutton

Exams & Assessments: 10 Things Parents & Carers Need to Know

During this practical short course, Pooky will walk you through a range of simple ideas to help you to support your child if they’ve got exams looming.  None of these ideas require any existing knowledge or experience and they are all designed to feel easily doable.  You don’t have to do them all; pick one or two and see how you get on.   This course is written with parents and carers primarily in mind, but the ideas here could easily be adapted for use by people working with young people or you could use them to deliver workshops or discussion sessions to parents or carers.   One of a series of webinars commissioned by Resilient Rutland who are funded by the National Lottery 

REFERENCES

• Creative Education
• Course Page

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#CreativeEducation,#Support,#Children,#Exams,#Assessment

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Kick it out : Social Media Boycott

Kick it out is a charity set up to rid football (soccer) of racism. At the end of April there will be a social media boycott to protest against the abuse players and others are facing on a regular basis. Join in and lets rid sport of ALL racism and abuse.

ENGLISH FOOTBALL ANNOUNCES SOCIAL MEDIA BOYCOTT

Kick It Out, The FA, Premier League, EFL, FA Women’s Super League, FA Women’s Championship, PFA, LMA, PGMOL and the FSA will unite for a social media boycott from 15.00 on Friday 30 April to 23.59 on Monday 3 May 2021.

You can read more here

REFERENCES

• Kick It Out

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#KickItOut,#Football,#Soccer,#Anti,#Racism

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Alison Food Safety Course

Food Safety Knowledge – Basic Level Requirements -Revised

This  course  is  compiled  from  the  Food  Safety  Knowledge  Network's  Basic  Level Requirements for Food Manufacturers. The practices outlined in the course adhere to internationally  recognized  standards,  codes  of  practice,  and  guidelines  relating  to food,  food  production,  and  food  safety  recognized  by  the  WHO  (World  Health Organization) and United Nations. The topics covered include personal hygiene, water quality, product contamination control, and pest control.

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• Alison.com *

• Note : This is a referral link

#CPD, #Training #Food, #Safety

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CPD courses for work with alison.com

To help with looking for work & employment, I am keeping my training up to date as best as I can. This will hopefully improve my prospects and skills going forward.

In addition to as the Creative Education courses that I have completed. I have now signed up to Alison, who offer a wide range of courses for work and employment.

So far, I have completed *Fundamentals of Health and Safety in the Workplace – Revised”. My public profile is below, which will be updated automatically as I undertake courses.

• Alison Profile

REFERENCES

• Alison.com

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#Alison.#Training,#CPD,#LookingForWork

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Anxiety: Helping Your Autistic Child to Help Themselves

Anxiety is very much part of growing up and is something that we will all face at some point in our lives. However, Autistic children can experience Anxiety more intensely and more frequently than other children. Throughout the following modules, we will consider how best to support children with Autism.

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REFERENCES

• Creative Education
• Course Page

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#CreativeEducation,#Support,#Children,#autism,#anxiety

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Fediverse developers

Study is important, gaining skills by contributing to projects is also very useful. A few opportunities are presented below.

Note: In the interest of being open and transparent. I am making it clear, exactly where links are going to. This is INTENTIONAL and not a formatting error.

FediTips : @feditips@mstdn.social

If you're a developer, there are lots of #Fediverse platforms which you can help out on:

• BookWyrm (Goodreads alternative)https://github.com/mouse-reeve/bookwyrm
• Funkwhale (Music, Podcasts and Audio)https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale
  • Website
  • Mastodon
    
• Lemmy (Reddit alternative)https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
• Mastodon (Twitter alternative)https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon
• PeerTube (YouTube alternative)https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
• PixelFed (Instagram alternative)https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed
• Write Freely (Medium alternative)https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely

Other links

• Mastodon UK
• Qoto invite

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Summer School 2021

#SummerSchool is a free, online, interdisciplinary conference for the Fediverse, informally hosted by the instance Scholar Social but open to the rest of the Fedi. Its goals are to:

Details for this years event are being sorted out. In the meantime please check out the website [1] and either join the Scholar.social instance or another instance and follow.

1 Website 2 Mastodon for Scholar.social 3 @SummerSchool@scholar.social 4 Join Mastodon 5 Mastodon Uk instance

Hello! Scholar.Social is excited to host the second #SummerSchool, a free, interdisciplinary online academic conference – roughly spanning

We'll be looking for: people to help organize, moderators for the presentations, and presenters! Stay tuned for more details.

You can check out past presentations here

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April Tech Jam Summary

At the South Devon Virtual tech jam, on Saturday, we had discussions on quite a wide range of topics., these included:

Computer hardware such as Chromebooks and PC's not offering a choice of Operating System (OS) and the ease of which we can install what we want (e.g. a GNU/Linux) based system on shop bou ght hardware. This can be challenging with the use of non-free firmware, for example wifi firmware. The resultant collective opinion was that it would be nice to be able to go to a shop and just buy hardware with Linux pre-installed, or not have an OS at all giving us the option to install our own OS. While we are able to do this, the barriers are higher for the average user who is non technical.

We also discussed cloud computing, one drive and what happens if you lose access to your data, MS office now being a subscription model. We then looked at Nextcloud and the technical barriers for people to set that up securely. Eventually this moved on to a discussion on running software such as zoom as snaps (container packages), as I currently run Nextcloud in a Docker instance.

A discussion on using LaTeX, the advantages and if it is better to use Overleaf, a local install or have both available. This was also related to a discussion on distance learning and studying at University level generally.

After a short break the topic turned to what happens, when there is a disaster, causing lines of communication to be damaged, so no phones, mobile signals, electrical systems damaged. One suggestion was Morse code, so we discussed that, which led on to a discussion about hardware running forth, which then led in to a discussion on moon bases and certainly long term space missions needing computer hardware which will need to last 100's of years. This could be a long, multiple generation, journey to a star system for example Proxima Centauri. It could take 100's of years to go just 4+ light years in distance, given how fast current space craft can travel.

So in all, a very varied set of topics, Really interesting.

Next jam is 8th May where there will be more of the same. See Meetup. If you sign up and follow we will send you a notification closer to the time.

REFERENCES

• A Possible Planet in the Habitable zone of Alpha Centauri? – YouTube
• NextCloud
• Docker
• LaTeX Project
  • Overleaf
• Long spaceflights and endurance swimming can 'shrink the heart' BBC News 13/4/2021

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#SouthDevonTechJam,#STEM,#STEAM,#Meeting,#Chat,#Social

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