IDEATEMay 3
It was fantastic to learn from Kylie McColl’s workshop on K-12 outreach at the 2025 IDEATE Summit! 🎓
If we want more diverse students in computing at Australian unis, we need to rethink how we engage with schools.
See the slides: https://ideate.community/resources/outreach/
#HigherEd #Computing #STEM #Diversity #K12 #CompSci #Inclusion #CSed #AussieEd #EdTech
Outreach - IDEATE

Presentation by Kylie McColl at IDEATE Summit 2025 on Inclusive tech futures: Secondary school engagement

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IDEATEApr 30

Calling all Australian uni computing and software engineering educators!

IDEATE is hosting a free workshop on UDL in tech on May 19. Learn how to design inclusive courses. Better student experience, less need for adjustments.

Details: https://events.humanitix.com/ideate-workshop-resources-for-udl-in-tech

#UDL #EdTech #HigherEd #CSed

IDEATE Workshop - resources for UDL in tech

Join Dr Anne Ozdowska for a workshop on UDL resources for computer science and software engineering courses at Australian universities.

IDEATEApr 30

Charles Martin has an excellent set of resources for Australian university tutors in computing and software engineering — a great addition to your tutor induction toolkit. Find them in IDEATE's resources:
https://ideate.community/resources/educator-development/

#HigherEd #Accessibility #CSed #Computing #SoftwareEngineering #UniAus

Educator Development - IDEATE

These resources include presentations from the IDEATE Summit held at The Australian National University in Canberra in September 2025, as well as resources shared by our partner universities. She Belongs – Kim Jackson Scholarship Program Presented by Dr Fiona Scotty at the IDEATE Summit 2025, the Kim Jackson Scholarship Program…

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gallaugherApr 15
Build a Flash Card app in #SwiftUI using #SwiftData. One of two apps my students needed to build w/o AI during their hands-on 2.5 hr. in-class 2nd mid-term. Use this as a test, (pause after each question shown, complete, and compare answers), or watch it as a refresher lesson that provides a "recipe" breakdown for thinking about basic SwiftData setup w/MockData. https://youtu.be/pyKM3FJhQWg #CSed, #ADE, #Swift
Build a FlashCards iPhone App - Challenge & Solution using SwiftData

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gallaugherApr 11
"Ghost Catch", an accessibility game I'm prototyping for the Campus School at Boston College, which allows children with severe motor restrictions to pass an animation back and forth. https://youtu.be/98N8J6Ri4L4 GitHub repo in description. #CircuitPython #MakerSpace #TechForGood #Accessibility #CSed
Accessible Catch Game for people with severe Physical Challenges

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gallaugherApr 2
#CSed friends, my academic interests have shifted hard toward tech ed (flipped class, SwiftUI app dev, Physical Computing w/Assistive Tech). Am wondering which conferences I should seek out to share ideas with other educators.
gallaugherMar 27
Such a nice profile of the #AssistiveTech work being done by my Boston College Physical Computing students. https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/sites/bc-news/articles/2026/spring/the-class-that-makes-a-difference-.html May be interesting to folks in the #CSed #MakerSpace #RaspberryPi and #CircuitPython communities.
‘Cool Stuff’ that makes a difference

In ‘Tech for Good,’ Boston College students turn sensors, code, and LEDs into accessible learning tools for kids with disabilities

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gallaugherMar 22
90 min newbie intro to #CircuitPython #raspberrypipico workshop. Lights, sound, potentiometer, and servo! Slides I use with parts & code for all #csed & #makerspace educators can be found at https://bit.ly/pico-workshop If you want to see a student demo video see: https://bsky.app/profile/gallaugher.bsky.social/post/3mhnmurcaqk2f
Raspberrry Pi Pico MakerSpace Workshop

Raspberry Pi Pico MakerSpace Workshop About 90 mins. Intro to CircuitPython on the Pico NeoPixel lights colorwheel to change colors through a rainbow Playing .wav files Using a potentiometer Moving a 180° servo map_range function Over 100 free tutorials, curricula, challenge lessons & solutions a...

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gallaugherMar 17
SnackHomiez: from last night's #SwiftUI Mid-Term. A nonsense app celebrating SNL's best sketches of the Season using concepts learned in the first 1/3 of the course. Low key valid https://youtu.be/_BJ8oaZW6Co #CSed fam, especially those teaching slang-tacular Gen-Alpha, this one's for you. Fire 🔥!
SnackHomiez App: A SwiftUI Mid-Term Challenge & Solution

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gallaugherMar 5
Diplo on your Pico! Build a polyphonic multi-sound DJ board on a sheet of paper using CircuitPython and a RaspberryPi Pico! https://bit.ly/pico-dj-board a super fun classroom build for the #CSed fam. @adafruit Adalogger Cowbell allows gigabytes of sound from the @raspberrypi Pico #circuitpython #raspberrypi #RaspberryPiPico #dj
Build a Polyphonic DJ Board for Raspberry Pi Pico (CircuitPython School)

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