Today I'm going to give you a SNEAK PEEK at what's on our study desks and computer desktops - completely uncensored, NO hypocritical tidying right before the photos! Yup, warts and all!
We have a lot of tech in our study, especially by global standards. Let me stress that there's no point in having new technology unless you can use it to make the world a better place.
We have a lot of tech in our study, especially by global standards. Let me stress that there's no point in having new technology unless you can use it to make the world a better place.
Here's an overview of the space we have:
You can see we've got 3 desk zones; two have Mac laptops and one has a monitor which gets used with either a Raspberry Pi or Dr Dad's work laptop running Linux.
There's actually a Raspberry Pi sitting there at the moment, which the boys have been
On the first laptop:
- This Oxfam petition (please sign it now! I'll wait for you here)
- Infinity Squared, a government school maths program for S-Man (Year 6)
- The Scratch programming homepage
- Blogger.com and a search page on how to spell 'doovalacky' (ehem)
- Black Star Maths (just starting to explore this)
- This Quanta magazine article on maths
- Canva.com which I use for creating blog images
Below the desk is our modem and a NAS (Network Attached Storage) which has all of our music on it. We use a wireless Sonos in our living room and we also have Spotify. Spotify means less waste in the form of CDs that eventually end up in landfill.
On top of the desk we've got one of our Kindles charging, and Roo's motion-activated camera for bird-watching.
We've got a basic printer-scanner and a gift waiting to be sent.
I display a photo of my grandfathers who have both passed away...
... and a photo of S-Man being presented with a certificate for high achievement by the Minister for Education. That was a slightly bizarre but kind gift from our school.
We've got a couple of trophies and a jar with loose change, too.
On the second laptop:
- A graph of the Collatz Conjecture that Dr Dad and S-Man programmed together
- A Python program S-Man wrote to generate prime numbers to 10,000
Next to it there's a plant Roo bought himself with pocket money...
... and a couple of textbooks I recently purchased secondhand on Gumtree for S-Man. I like the Jacaranda textbooks best, but the Pearson ones are usually pretty good too.
The 10/10 signs were made by Roo so that his Fuzzy Bunnies could judge S-Man's piano practice. They rated him unanimously 10/10. Nice Fuzzy Bunnies.
Finally, there's a pair of cycling duds waiting to be mended, and under them a counter for tallying up piano practices which S-Man soldered from a Jaycar kit (a gift).
Oh, and I almost forgot: There's a beautiful ceramic Kelp Gull made by Roo, which is waiting to be fired.
That gives you an idea of what tech we have at home and which websites we're using right now!
Thanks for reading this warts-and-all peek into our study, and if you liked this, check out my video tour of our STEM playroom for some inspiration!
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