🤖⚽ Who needs real football when you can have robot football! This is definitely my favourite out of all of the @elecfreaks.bsky.social World Cup challenges!
GeekyNicki
@geekynicki.bsky.social
Former Computing teacher and AST now Computing Curriculum Specialist @ucantootech.bsky.social with a passion for STEM, making things from cardboard, micro:bit, robotics, Minecraft, and video games. Also a lover of mountain-biking, Lego and board games!
🕹️ I've been continuing with my arcade theme, playing with #FlockXR some more! This time, Pacman! My aim is to give it a twist by randomising some of the wall positions! It will definitely be fun to try out some of these arcade game recreations in schools!
🎮 I've just discovered there's a micro:bit display shield extension in MakeCode. Looking forward to exploring this some more . . . #microbit @microbit.org
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! #WorldBookDay #WBD26
🌍📚 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! 🤞🏼😂)
📝 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
Spelling Snail by GeekyNicki
Learn your weekly spellings with Spelling Snail!
geekynicki.itch.io
🏔️ I'm lucky enough to have had the pleasure of visiting Switzerland twice this academic year! You can read all about it here! 👇🏼 #EdTech
U Can Too@ucantootech.bsky.social · 6mo ago📢 Read all about the Davos Codes Project in our latest blog post (link in the comments)👇 🏔️🎉 We recently returned from Davos where we celebrated the 10th year of the #DavosCodes programme, in partnership with Salesforce, showcasing the work from local school students at #WEF2026 #EdTech #STEM
🤖 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 #edTech
Overview of BETT 2026
YouTube video by Nicki Cooper
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🎮 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... #EdTech #GameDev
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!
geekynicki.itch.io
A bit of #microbit #Halloween fun with my 7yo this afternoon! #EdTech
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 . . .
🕹️ 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...
Flappy Duck
Made with ❤️ in Microsoft MakeCode Arcade.
arcade.makecode.com
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 #EdTech
Retro Snake by GeekyNicki
A remake of Snake.
geekynicki.itch.io
⌨️ 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... #eduSky #edTech
Daniel Linssen's Typing Challenge by Daniel Linssen
Learn to type quickly under pressure
managore.itch.io
🤖🦒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!
💻 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! #EdTech
Breakout (That's also Pinball!) by GeekyNicki
A pinball and breakout mash-up.
geekynicki.itch.io
🕹️ 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 🤔 . . .
📢 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 #EdTech #teamCompSci
Put to the Test: Free Game Engines for Schools – Interactive Classroom.net
interactiveclassroom.net
📢 New blog post! 👇 🎮 An overview of my experience at the @digitalschoolhouse.bsky.social Playful Computing conference last week. 👉 www.interactiveclassroom.net?p=2004 #EdTech #EduSky
Playful Computing Conference – Interactive Classroom.net
interactiveclassroom.net
🚂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!
U Can Too@ucantootech.bsky.social · last yr.🎥🤖 Check out the amazing creations made by year 4 and 5 learners at Aspire Academy last week as part of their Robot Petting Zoo workshop! We really enjoyed meeting the children and helping them bring their imaginations to life! #EduSky #teamCompSci #edTech
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! 😁
U Can Too@ucantootech.bsky.social · last yr.💻 Last week we spent 2 days at MGGS running our Drone Assault Course workshop. 🚧 We saw a large selection of themes and the girls worked really hard on creating their obstacles and learning to fly the drones! #EdTech #EduSky #teamCompSci
🤖 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 #edTech
🌕 Happy #StarWarsDay! #MayThe4th be with you! 🤖 Celebrated today by making a #micro:bit powered R2D2! My 7yo even helped with the coding! (There's an @elecfreaks.bsky.social Wukong board and MP3 player hiding inside) 👇🏼 Before and after pics in the comments!
Looking forward to programming Omnibot's new @raspberrypi.com Zero brain. Now I'll be able to add a camera and speech capabilities! 🤞🏼
Had great fun hunting for large #Lego Easter Eggs today at Chatham Dockyard, also loved seeing the Lego shipwrecks on display!
💡 Just introduced my son to Code Combat in Roblox! He's loving adding his own blocks of code to improve his virtual pet's combat skills. So nice to see him playing a decent game in Roblox and building his coding knowledge at the same time >> codecombat.com/roblox #edTech
CodeCombat: Learn to Code by Playing a Game
Learn typed code through a programming game. Learn Python, JavaScript, and HTML as you solve puzzles and learn to make your own coding games and websites.
codecombat.com