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World Book Day 2026 complete, and the costumes were still in one piece after school!

Tom Gates dressed as a Monster from the books by Liz Pichon and a Mech Suit from Mech Brigade by Jamie Russell!

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🌍📚 Starting to build World Book Day costumes this week!

As you can see, one is going to be very simple! The other. . . . (just wish me luck! 🤞🏼😂)

Spelling Snail by GeekyNicki Learn your weekly spellings with Spelling Snail!

📝 I made a little game to help my son learn his weekly spellings.

I thought I'd share in case it helps anybody else!

(Let me know if you spot any bugs I need to fix!)

geekynicki.itch.io/spelling-snail

🏔️ I'm lucky enough to have had the pleasure of visiting Switzerland twice this academic year! You can read all about it here! 👇🏼

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YouTube video by Nicki Cooper Overview of BETT 2026

🤖 This week, I enjoyed a quick visit to #BETT2026, and as usual, it did not disappoint! Here's a little video showcase and I've written up some of my highlights over on my blog:

👉 www.interactiveclassroom.net?p=2093

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Draw, Roll, Flick by GeekyNicki Draw a path, roll your ball - get to the portal in as close to 20 seconds as possible! Flick if you get stuck!

🎮 Had lots of fun using #Construct3 to make my submission to the 20 Second Game Jam on @itch.io!

👉 geekynicki.itch.io/draw-roll-fl...

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This year's pumpkin efforts!

Love what you did there! 😂

A bit of #microbit #Halloween fun with my 7yo this afternoon!

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I've been having lots of fun testing out #FlockXR by @flipcomputing.bsky.social recently, so far I've made this little ball roll around (because why would I start off doing something simple!). My aim is to turn this into a little marble run/maze game! So far so good . . .

Flappy Duck Made with ❤️ in Microsoft MakeCode Arcade.

🕹️ I've had lots of fun playing with #MakeCodeArcade recently. Just finished a little Flappy Bird clone (except it's Flappy Duck) and currently working on Tetris. (Hoping to get round to making some guide-sheets soon too!)

👉 arcade.makecode.com/S05362-73372...

Retro Snake by GeekyNicki A remake of Snake.

Had lots of fun building this little Snake replica to further improve my skills in #Construct3. Love being able to use both the Event Sheet and JavaScript.

👉🏼 geekynicki.itch.io/retro-snake

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Daniel Linssen's Typing Challenge by Daniel Linssen Learn to type quickly under pressure

⌨️ A fun way to learn touch-typing 👇

Recently stumbled across this fun game to help improve students' touch-typing skills: managore.itch.io/daniel-linss...

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🤖🦒Had a brilliant day out at Horniman Museum in London today visiting their amazing Robot Zoo, I highly recommend visiting if you haven't seen it yet as the exhibition is only on for a few more months!

Breakout (That's also Pinball!) by GeekyNicki A pinball and breakout mash-up.

💻 I've pushed the limits of the free version of #construct3 and added a fair amount of JavaScript in this Pinball/Breakout mashup!

👉 geekynicki.itch.io/breakout-tha...

🕹️ Thinking about creating a series of arcade game mashups so if you have any ideas I'd love to hear them!

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Ooh, I've not seen the @elecfreaks.bsky.social Jacdac: bit before! Looks fab, might have to try it out!

🕹️ I've had fun this weekend making this little animated unicorn using @godotengine.org which will, hopefully, eventually evolve into a platform game! Just need to think of a storyline to go with it 🤔 . . .

Yes, definitely! 😊

I'm not sure if there would be time to add Construct into a GCSE class. It's something I would run as a game making workshop for that age group. Could even do it specifically for the non-GCSE students to cover their compulsory computing input for KS4?

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Good luck, I'm also learning Godot at the moment and the tutorial you mentioned looks really interesting, thanks for sharing.

Put to the Test: Free Game Engines for Schools – Interactive Classroom.net

📢 New blog post: Putting free game engines to the test! 👇

🎮 I've looked at #MakeCode Arcade, #Construct3, #GDevelop, #Struckd Studio and #Godot from a teaching perspective. . .

👉 www.interactiveclassroom.net?p=2027

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Playful Computing Conference – Interactive Classroom.net

📢 New blog post! 👇

🎮 An overview of my experience at the @digitalschoolhouse.bsky.social Playful Computing conference last week.

👉 www.interactiveclassroom.net?p=2004

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🚂On my way home from the fantastic, Playful Learning Conference from @digitalschoolhouse.bsky.social

🤯 My brain is so full of new and exciting information I don't know where to begin processing it all! I'll probably follow-up with a blog post at some point!

Feeling very inspired!

It was so much fun helping the children create these, last week!

Our #micro:bit Battle Bots now have working weapons . . .

We've had fun designing and building our own battle bots today in the style of @extremerobots.bsky.social !

We'll be adding the #micro:bit programming tomorrow.

Such a fun 2 days! I love my job! 😁

Now, THAT is a great idea!

🤖 Meet the robots . . .

📄 As I'm getting quite a collection of #robot projects now, I thought I would introduce them all in a blog post!

🎨 I genuinely find #robotics such a fun and engaging way to combine computing with creativity!

🔗 www.interactiveclassroom.net?p=1993

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