{"id":1943,"date":"2017-02-02T12:38:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T12:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2017.london.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=1943"},"modified":"2017-09-11T12:35:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T11:35:22","slug":"lightning-session-b","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/london.wordcamp.org\/2017\/session\/lightning-session-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Working Across Time Zones &#8211; Denise VanDeCruze<\/h2>\n<p>How do we deal with a global client base? How do we get projects done with a worldwide team? I will be sharing some best practices for working across long distances and differences in time and culture. You can expect stories of this going wrong as well as stories of this going well, how to set-up expectations, timelines and deliverables.<\/p>\n<h2>Computing in UK Schools &#8211; Mark Wilkinson<\/h2>\n<p>In 2013\/2014 the UK government made major changes to the ICT curriculum, most notably removing a lot of the traditional \u201chow to use\u201d content and replacing this with a Computing focused curriculum. As a former teacher at the time I went through this transition.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk I will outline what is now taught in UK schools at the moment along with some of the techniques and software programs used to get these skills and knowledge across to our youngsters. The talk will touch on the role WordPress could and perhaps should play in the curriculum. This talk with be of interest to anyone interesting in learning what and how computing is taught in schools. In may be of greater interest to agencies recruiting from the pool of up and coming talent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<section id=\"video\" class=\"session--video\">\n<h2>Video<\/h2>\n<div id=\"v-7AQzPrS7-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='604' height='338' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/7AQzPrS7?hd=1&amp;cover=1&amp;loop=0&amp;autoPlay=0&amp;permalink=1&amp;muted=0&amp;controls=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;useAverageColor=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/video\/assets\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js'><\/script><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"transcription\" class=\"session--transcription\">\n<h2>Transcription<\/h2>\n<p><strong>VINEETA:<\/strong> \u00a0We are starting in about two minutes. \u00a0We are starting in about two minutes. \u00a0Thanks again for joining for the lightning talks we have two today firstly from Denise VanDeCruze. \u00a0He has building sites for over 20 years. \u00a0She is very passionate. \u00a0She has spear headed mentorship programme for young people as well. \u00a0You are the leading organiser for Paris WordCamp.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DENISE VANDECRUZE:<\/strong> \u00a0No Vienna.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VINEETA:<\/strong> \u00a0And she builds sites through a company called Girlbot. \u00a0Today she will be talking about working across different time zones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DENISE VANDECRUZE:<\/strong> \u00a0Hi everybody. \u00a0We had three lightning sessions planned, now we have two, so it means I get to go a little bit longer. \u00a0About 15 minutes and then I will be taking questions for five minutes and then a talk after me. \u00a0So I will be talking about working across time zones. \u00a0At the last few years I have been working on the go systems. \u00a0WPML and tool sets and it is an entirely remote company and I love to travel. \u00a0So this year no last year 2016 I spent the entire summer in the Caribbean. \u00a0South America and have IT I and the to mini can republic I am in Scotland a lot and Copenhagen a lot. \u00a0This is something near and dear to my heart, wherever I go I have to work my full day. \u00a0So today will be talking about working across time zones not just for your company put your clients\u2019 sake. \u00a0How many of you work remotely? \u00a0Good that is great. \u00a0I think that is one of the great opportunities that jobs within WordPress create. \u00a0So that is the slide about me, you can reach me @solchica on Twitter. \u00a0So let&#8217;s talk about structuring a remote project. \u00a0Your remote island and you want to work with collaborators to get something done in WordPress. \u00a0What do you have to make sure happens. \u00a0So the first thing that you have to think about is your legal structure. \u00a0How will you set yourself up legally to work with people all across the world. \u00a0There are different models for doing that. \u00a0Some people organise in a particular country that allows them to do that is contract with other people other people do it so that people are actually recognised employees with no fixed place. \u00a0It really just depends how you want to organise yourself for legal and tax purposes and it depends on your particular situation. \u00a0This is something you really need to think about. \u00a0Specially within the EU we have pretty strict labour laws in Austria and Vienna particularly, you want to make sure you are not running foul of that. \u00a0Another thing that needs to happen your version needs to be clearly defined. \u00a0How many of you have gotten asked to do something and some one talk to you for about two hours or so and at the end of the two hours you weren&#8217;t quite sure what you were just asked to do? \u00a0That happens a lot, that happens a lot. \u00a0Sometimes we get really fired up about doing something and we get people on board, but we are not really sure what we are asking people to do and this is very very important specially in this ecology of WordPress, because you are dealing with people with multiple skills. \u00a0So someone who could be a developer, maybe they could be a supporter, or a project lead. \u00a0They need to know exactly what you needs for your project. \u00a0So that is key you have to define your vision and where you want people to come in on that vision with you. \u00a0And in accordance with that the roles have to be spelled out, what do you do in the project? \u00a0Are you just the guys that has ideas or will you be working alongside everybody else. \u00a0That also has been to be spelled out. \u00a0The thing about remote projects is that they cannot be as nebulous as projects based on a physical location. \u00a0If we are in an office I am unsure I say hey I am unsure about this what are we doing. \u00a0If we are working remotely and perhaps we don&#8217;t overlap the entire day, those opportunities are not as plenty full. \u00a0So a lot of time may get wasted in a lack of clarity. \u00a0And the last thing I would say that is really important here when you are structuring remote project is to think about culture. \u00a0Culture I think people think culture is something that you can only really influence if you are in people&#8217;s presence. \u00a0Even when you have a remote team you still can really determine what your company culture, what your project culture will look like. \u00a0That has to do with things like how you communicate with people. \u00a0How are you asking people for things. \u00a0What does it look like in terms of are you talking to them every they, do you have a daily check in, or talk to people months and you see them in a month when the deadline happens. \u00a0So think about how the culture is going to play itself out and if that will meet your needs. \u00a0So I made a little tool kit here if I knew I would be taking up this much time I would have done it much more bulleted. \u00a0I love slides, but, at first I had so many slides and they were like you have to pair down the slides, so I have to tell you a lot I would love to give you bulleted points for. \u00a0I have a lot of recommendations about everything here I am sure that you guys have recommendations too since so many of you have worked remotely. \u00a0If you are working remotely and across time zones what is important. \u00a0One is a scheduling system. \u00a0If you are in Asia and I am in Europe we need to be clear how we are organising our times so we have at least some overlap. \u00a0In my old position I had to on board people coming in from all across the would. \u00a0That would mean if I had to deal with someone in Asia for example I would have to get up early and they would have to stay late a bit, so I can walk them true certain things. \u00a0So scheduling system is really important, specially in the beginning. \u00a0There are some companies that don&#8217;t really allow remote employees until they have been working at a company for some years or for a significant amount of time. \u00a0And the reason that happens is because when you have this overlapping time you are able to establish certain things with people you can pin them for questions and orientation and do training with them. \u00a0This is a really important building time. \u00a0Specially in the beginning of a relationship what I would recommend no matter where you are in the world that you find period of time and you both sort of meet halfway so that you can have some significant overlap. \u00a0Even if that significant overlap only happens for a period of weeks or the first couple of months. \u00a0And another thing that is important is a project or bug system. \u00a0So who here has used base camp? \u00a0Jack brains right. \u00a0Whatever it is it has to be consistent and with your needs. \u00a0What the system has to do is to track issues. \u00a0And to track accountability of those issues. \u00a0So who is working on it when and how long are they working on it, what AA are the important resources that need to be logged with this issue whatever tool you use it has to have those things. \u00a0Another thing I recommend is a document bank. \u00a0A lot of people use Google docs for this. \u00a0You can use whatever works Dropbox or online cloud source system or even a host system. \u00a0There has to be a place where you have your virtual file cabinet. \u00a0Chat tool. \u00a0Live conferencing, so that can be Skype, that can be Slack for the chat tool for example. \u00a0And client management and back up information. \u00a0So what kind of tools could we use for client management? \u00a0Can you guys? \u00a0What kind of tools do you guys use for client management.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW SPEAKER:<\/strong> \u00a0TRELLO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FROM THE FLOOR:<\/strong> \u00a0Confluence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DENISE VANDECRUZE:<\/strong> \u00a0Okay cool. \u00a0Some people use asylum, I have just started using TRELLO it is a great tool. \u00a0Back up is essential. \u00a0You don&#8217;t want the bulk of your data to be sitting in anyone person&#8217;s computer. \u00a0Anything can happen to that person&#8217;s computer. \u00a0So when you are hiring remotely and you are dealing with remote collaborators one thing to realise is the most essential element of dealing with these people will be trust. \u00a0These have to be people that you can trust and they need to be able to trust you. \u00a0And how does that happen? \u00a0It happens through accountability, following through and making sure you are very clear with each other and about what needs to happen. \u00a0So when you are hiring and looking for someone make sure that there are people that have a proven tack record and the next part of that is that you have to have to have to allow them to take ownership of what they are suppose to do. \u00a0So one thing that is very hard to do with remote team is micromanaging. \u00a0You would not want to do that anyway. \u00a0But it is specially hard to do with a remote team. \u00a0So this all kind of leads into managing expectations, that getting to know you phase in the remote relationship is as important as anything you will do afterwards that is the period that you clarify how you are going to be working wit them and how they are going to be working with you. \u00a0This is something that is important for your client relationships as well. \u00a0If you are dealing with clients outside of a time zone that you have full support of they need to know what window within their time zone can they expect immediate support. \u00a0So managing expectations of your clients and of your collaborators is a huge part of successfully managing a remote team. \u00a0How am I doing on time? \u00a0Okay good. \u00a0So the happy ending. \u00a0When all of these things are done you should have a mutually beneficial relationship and look back on it and have freedom that you would not normally have within a physical location. \u00a0And I think I am out of time because it is a lightning session. \u00a0Thank you so much for listening (Applause) does any one have anything else to add or questions?<\/p>\n<p><strong>FROM THE FLOOR:<\/strong> \u00a0You mentioned scheduling time zones have you got any tips on how to schedule the work of the remote team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DENISE VANDECRUZE:<\/strong> \u00a0How to manage the work load of the remote team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FROM THE FLOOR:<\/strong> \u00a0You can&#8217;t see people so you don&#8217;t get a sense when they are stressed or over loaded, or similarly when they are twiddling their thumbs and don&#8217;t have enough to do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DENISE VANDECRUZE:<\/strong> \u00a0The first thing is because you have this tracking system or bug system or ticket system everything is very transparent. \u00a0One of the things you should think about you are dealing with very smart people Bob in Utah knows how much work his counterpart in Egypt did. \u00a0It has to be equitable and feel fair, when it starts to not feel fair you have other problems in your company culture. \u00a0That its first part. \u00a0Then again not every one may have equal capabilities, you want to make sure they are supported and there is adequate train in and systems in place so that when they don&#8217;t feel like they have the tools that they need to do their job that they can get those tools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FROM THE FLOOR:<\/strong> \u00a0Thank you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DENISE VANDECRUZE:<\/strong> \u00a0Welcome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FROM THE FLOOR:<\/strong> \u00a0My question is quite similar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW SPEAKER:<\/strong> \u00a0Any other questions?<\/p>\n<p><strong>FROM THE FLOOR:<\/strong> \u00a0How do your clients feel about you being on the beach when you are working?<\/p>\n<p><strong>DENISE VANDECRUZE:<\/strong> \u00a0Yeah how do you focus do you mean.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FROM THE FLOOR:<\/strong> \u00a0That as well but how do your clients feel about it and how do you deal with it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DENISE VANDECRUZE:<\/strong> \u00a0In my position I did not do a ton of video chat the video with our internal team, they were like great send pictures, every one understood. \u00a0We had team members that just travel the would they did not have a fixed place they lived, they would spend a month here two month here&#8217;s. \u00a0One thing I would say about being in different parts of the world the summer I was in places that I was in for the very first time. \u00a0What that means is that I ran into odd situations where my Internet access did not always work the way I needed to it work. \u00a0And that is the hardest thing. \u00a0Always try to go into a situation where you have some certainty around what your access is going to be, even if that means that you find a relationship with a hotel whether you stay there or not that you have a relationship with them okay I can use you are internet or possible a business with a high speed internet connection. \u00a0Because I was there during hurricane season and a strong wind I was like oh no, that is the only thing I can warn against.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FROM THE FLOOR:<\/strong> \u00a0And discipline to get a \u00a0full eight hours day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DENISE VANDECRUZE:<\/strong> \u00a0For me the way I dealt with it, when most people travel if they are having a nice vacation they would sleep into say ten or eleven. \u00a0The way that I would deal with wanting to go out and see new places yet at the same time needing to get some work done was I wake up very early and start my day at like five Am and in the afternoon I could actually just go and enjoy things. \u00a0So it really just depends if you are a morning person use that to your advantage. \u00a0Figure out when is this town sleeping. \u00a0Not only will it be great for you to do your work because you can focus and everyone is quite and you don&#8217;t have a lot of noise around you, put then you still get to go out and explore. \u00a0Okay. \u00a0I am going to pass the mic. \u00a0Thank you so much for listening. \u00a0(Applause).<\/p>\n<p><strong>VINEETA:<\/strong> \u00a0Thank you Denise. \u00a0The next speaker.. \u00a0I will not start to introduce you yet. \u00a0This the last talk of the day so stick around, don&#8217;t go anywhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DENISE VANDECRUZE:<\/strong> \u00a0While we are waiting for the second lighting round does anyone have a particular remote working challenge they want to share? \u00a0Like what are the hardest things for you about working remotely?<\/p>\n<p><strong>FROM THE FLOOR:<\/strong> \u00a0So yes so one of the problems that I have had both working for myself on my own and working for a partner is the focus and just being able to stay focused even though I have got a separate room operate from the house it is still quite difficult to stay focused on one specific thing, specially if it is a bigger company with a lot of communication. \u00a0That is one of the issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DENISE VANDECRUZE:<\/strong> \u00a0I have a couple of tips about that. \u00a0You have to have a work pace that works for you. \u00a0If you live in a place where maybe at home it is not so conducive work you might want to think about finding a coworking space and working from there. \u00a0Another thing that is important there is a lot of communication coming from you at all times is to channel communication, maybe it does not make sense to have steady streams of emails, so maybe at the end of each hour I will check emails, otherwise you get caught up in this series of try doing put out fires, so instead of focusing on your list of priorities you focus on priorities that people give you and the squeaky wheel that comes in front of you. \u00a0And who has ever read a book called The power of habit? \u00a0It talks about the way our brains are set up, we can hack our discipline by developing habits. \u00a0If we know 10 to 12 is project time, decode time that is what you do. \u00a0But you have to develop that habit by not doing anything else and really kind of treating through it for let&#8217;s say I think how many days was it, 30 days, about 30 days, those first 30 days will be really hard, after that you will find yourself doing it from 10 until 12 and you will not even notice it, it will come from our sub conscious brain and so we will just be moving through it. \u00a0So discipline is something you can hack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VINEETA:<\/strong> \u00a0Any more questions. \u00a0It is something you talk about discipline. \u00a0My husband Tom hates bananas, he taught himself to eat bananas by discipline, you can change your mind set to do anything, you can learn to like things if you eat them every day. \u00a0Literally eat vegetables every day and you learn to like them, it does work. \u00a0It is discipline. \u00a0Are you happy to go? \u00a0Shall I start introducing Mark I am hoping it is not long. \u00a0So Mark is a former geography and ICT teacher and started using WordPress in 2005. \u00a0Now a WordPress developer and business owner of high rise digital. \u00a0Fun fact of the day that Mark and Keith, Keith Devan Mark&#8217;s business partner they both are really tall people, that is why they called them self high rise digital. \u00a0So Mark is going to talk about how computing is done in UK schools. \u00a0Take it away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MARK:<\/strong> First of all apologies it is a all a bit rushed, apologies if it is not as polished as it would be. \u00a0I am also having to present on this different screen.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to talk about computing in UK schools and maybe about what WordPress&#8217; role in that could be. \u00a0As you just heard I used to be a teacher. \u00a0From 2002 to 2014, so I have \u00a0experience about what this is about I am now a developer and business order I have been using WordPress for quite a while. \u00a0Why is it important that you guys want to know about what is important about it being taught in UK schools or schools around the would in terms of computing I think obviously as the web gets bigger and starts to grow we are going to need more and more people working in the web and those people are going to come from schools and colleges, what they are taught there now is of good interest to most of us in terms of what can they do, what skills have they got coming out of skills and colleges and how we can use those skills for people look doing employ those people etcetera. \u00a0It is important we have a broad knowledge like we do with other objects. \u00a0The reason why this might be important particularly now is that there has been a massive change with the ICT and computers and the way it has been taught in UK schools in the last three or four years. \u00a0So pre-2013 the actual subject was called ICT information and communication technology. \u00a0There was very little computing in that curriculum at all. \u00a0Essentially it was like using computers and using software to solve problems and do different tasks. \u00a0So previous to 2013 this document was the government document the National Curriculum which told teachers what they had to deliver in those lessons, so a very pretty design, very old now. \u00a0These are the things that ass teachers we had to deliver. \u00a0It was split into key concepts and sigh key processes. \u00a0So how we communicate with each under tools we can use to do that. \u00a0And manipulating information, and spreadsheets and using spreadsheets and formulas and functions. \u00a0So a lot of Excel stuff in there. \u00a0The impact that technology has had on the world. \u00a0When this curriculum was designed it was in the mid- to late 90s when technology had really just started in terms of computers and the Internet, so teaching what impact that might have on society and that is still relevant today but slightly different ways in which it is relevant. \u00a0And the key process was finding information so we had this vast new web we had never come across before and how on earth do we use to it find information and stuff we want. \u00a0So how to search for things, relevant stuff I guess. \u00a0And then communicating information is twice never mind. \u00a0And then developing ideas, so the ideas of things using different pieces of software. \u00a0And it came to about 2011, 2012 a lot of discontent with this curriculum, so a few quotes from some people, from Ian Livingstone who was I don&#8217;t know if he still is, has his own games workshop company and also a government and business adviser on technology. \u00a0He wrote the flight and fantasy books, you used to roll a dice and fight different things with it, with Steve Jackson, so he had good experience this. \u00a0&#8220;Children have been forced to learn how to use apps rather than make them.&#8221; \u00a0So we are training a lot of people who can use things rather than make them. &#8220;Slaves to the user interface and totally bored by it.&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0Quite a bold statement, I think what he said did have some merit and we are teaching kids to use Microsoft office and these pieces of software rather than thing about how they are built and can we make our own and what can we do with them. \u00a0This is a quote from the Head of computing. \u00a0There is much greater need to develop for the future. \u00a0Problem solving skills. \u00a0Create software and not just use it.&#8221; \u00a0So instead of using these pieces of software to teach them the skills to create things for themselves to solve problems with. \u00a0That is how the curriculum has changed really. \u00a0So we have moved from ICT into computing and you will have to bear with me, I have to catch up on this laptop for my speaker notes. \u00a0And obviously that raised some challenges in schools because we had a set of staff that were delivering ICT, a lot of the time a lot of those weren&#8217;t particularly ICT focused they were from other subjects and all of a sudden they were being told you need to know how to programme and how to teach this, that was a big big shock for a lot of people including me. \u00a0So we moved over to a computing curriculum, so we completely changed the name of this subject it was no longer information communication technology it was now computing and even today you get teachers still calling itself ICT when it changed its name four years ago now. \u00a0So it just shows how long it has to change to become engrained. \u00a0This kind of what the curriculum now looks like. \u00a0It is actually much simpler. \u00a0Less documents about what you have to do. \u00a0It goes through some of the things you need to cover as a teacher. \u00a0So key stage one on the left. \u00a0That is from the years of four to six years old. \u00a0Key stage two from six to eleven. \u00a0Key stage 3 is eleven to 14. \u00a0And key stage 4 is from years 14-16. \u00a0That gives you some of the ideas about the age of some of the people learning these things. \u00a0You see the stuff here and some of it is quite surprising. \u00a0Algorithms is key stage 1. \u00a0You are four to six years old and looking at algorithms, that is highly customised for those kids. \u00a0They are teaching them to debug simple programmes, so getting that engrained and using technology to create store manipulate and use things safely. \u00a0So we are try doing deliver that early on which I think is a good idea. \u00a0Key stage 2 more advance variables inputs and outputs, logical reasons to explain algorithms, not just using them, trying to get them understand what they are. \u00a0Understand how networks and internet works, between the age of six and eleven. \u00a0The later stages of primary school. \u00a0And effective use of search technology. \u00a0Some of the things have remained. \u00a0They have not got rid of everything. \u00a0And safely using a range of software in a range of devices, e-safety and they know what they are doing online. \u00a0Moving into key stage 3. \u00a0Design and use of modelling systems things around the world what happens if you do this so forth. \u00a0And understanding algorithms, sorting and selecting and they have to use in key stage three two programming language. \u00a0Like we do with Java script and PHP. \u00a0One of them has to be text best, proper coding in a text editor which is quite unique and different. \u00a0And sometimes when we first start teaching this the reaction of the kids was what, you want me to do this? \u00a0This is something that people far more important and intelligent than me do, no no you are going to do it they got through it quite well. \u00a0Procedures and logic. \u00a0Boolean logic. \u00a0And a bit of binary as well. \u00a0And then key stage four. \u00a0Like your GCSE type years it is a bit sparse, they don&#8217;t stipulate very much. \u00a0Computer science, you have to do computer science. \u00a0You can take that in lots of ways. \u00a0Digital media, linking to the web. \u00a0Computational thinking and problem solving, online privacy, so they are fully aware of that all the time and how technology changes and impacts us over time. \u00a0I think when that first came into the curriculum it was the introduction of technology, now it is how technology is changing over time and how it will impact society and social media in the last five or six years and how that has changed everybody&#8217;s lives. \u00a0So that is what they are teaching at the moment. \u00a0So I have mentioned the challenges this faced in staffing in particular and a lot of money was spent on retraining staff, getting new staff into teach this curriculum and you have got people going around schools asking does anybody know how to do this and they were brought into teach those things. \u00a0And also software, schools had basically a Microsoft licence to run Microsoft office, they had other software as well, which actually costs quite a lot of money. \u00a0And a lot of this can be taught open source stuff and free. \u00a0We had to find out what software there was, would it be installed okay on a network in a school. \u00a0So a lot of change and the problem of expertise, do we know how to teach this, that took a long while to solve in schools.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s look at the tools and software they use now to teach the coding aspects of the course or curriculum. \u00a0So I don&#8217;t know if you have seen this scratch, it actually an online tool. \u00a0It is to teach the principles of coding to young people it is actually quite good fun if you have never used it, have a go and create in games it is quite good fun. \u00a0It is an online tool, you don&#8217;t have to create an account but you can&#8217;t save it if you don&#8217;t create an account. \u00a0It is all free under, the creative commons licence, so this is scratch. \u00a0I will show you what some of it looks like. \u00a0It tries to teach coding by showing code blocks like this and these are split into different groupings, as you can see like a jigsaw puzzle they have got to put together the pieces of the jigsaw to build up a game or something a maze game is popular where you have to navigate around a maze. \u00a0And you have ifs and loops and if else and repeat and some of the general coding things you will see in other languages, trying to make it intuitive and get them to understand what is happening more easily. \u00a0So that is some of the examples of that. \u00a0The way it works is like this, a graphical interface where you build your game, this is a game to get mouse from the red screen to the blue screen if you touch the walls it will take you back to the start. \u00a0The code is on the right hand side using the different blocks and they are split into different parts, \u00a0events, controls operators and stuff like variables and put things into functions that run more than once, a really nice little tool and they found this fun, go create a game and they can pretty much do what they want. \u00a0This is a tool called flow rule. \u00a0Flow charts with code and you have got your flow-chart symbols and essentially they have to process through the different things to make the wheel go round and let everybody through the gate, there is like a traffic light one where you have to work the traffic lights, which is surprise singly difficult, particularly when you have more than two sets of traffic lights. \u00a0So flowol is quite a popular one. \u00a0And the last one, I mentioned they had to use a text base language. \u00a0Most schools have opted for python, I am not entirely sure why, there are quite easy tools you can install which is pretty good to install and runs. \u00a0So I don&#8217;t know if anybody has coded in python, in year nines and tens key stage three and four are using python to build things and solve problems and a lot of this comes into GCSE courses where they have to produce something. \u00a0I would love to see them use Java script. \u00a0All you need is a browser and a tech editor that is something they can have a look at in the future and I think that would help. \u00a0So the last part is WordPress&#8217; role, what sort of role have we got to contribute to this, that is a tricky one, getting kid toss use WordPress is quite a barrier a therapy up from using these tools. \u00a0But getting kids to have a go with WordPress. \u00a0There is really nice stuff in the customiser in CSS if you teach them basic CSS. \u00a0But also things like code clubs you can get involved with if you want to help out your local school. \u00a0They would snap your hand off if you said you would run a school code club. \u00a0So maybe our role as the community to try and get involved and help out teaching the up and coming stars of the future in our industry and Inspire them to become the next us lot sat in this room perhaps and going for that career. \u00a0And that is me. \u00a0Thank you. \u00a0(Applause).<\/p>\n<p><strong>VINEETA:<\/strong> \u00a0Any questions?<\/p>\n<p><strong>FROM THE FLOOR:<\/strong> \u00a0Hi our eldest daughter is in year one at Primary school, she is already using scratch junior on the Ipads there. \u00a0What its best way to support her at home to encourage it as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MARK:<\/strong> \u00a0Good question. \u00a0My kids one in year one and one in year five, they haven&#8217;t used that, you have a good school that is pushing it a lot. \u00a0I think for me ass as a teacher it was showing the kids the end product first of all, so because I think if you just show them like look at a load of code, boring, but show them the end product and say do you want to make that, do you want to do something similar to that, or change it to pink or blue and get them to understand how to do that. \u00a0That could be a way of encouraging them to get involved and delve in to the code and say you can do this, this is how you do it. \u00a0That is something to think about, good to see they are using stuff like that so early on. \u00a0Any others? \u00a0You all want to rush off to the party. \u00a0Cool thanks a lot. \u00a0(Applause).<\/p>\n<p><strong>VINEETA:<\/strong> I will check what the time is for the after party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW SPEAKER:<\/strong> \u00a0Go down for six o\u2019clock.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VINEETA:<\/strong> \u00a0Go down for six o\u2019clock to the main room. \u00a0Thanks again for joining the first day of WordCamp.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Working Across Time Zones &#8211; Denise VanDeCruze How do we deal with a global client base? 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