IT/Computing tutorials

Over the years I have made hundreds (possibly thousands) of video tutorials. I thought I would drop the best of them on here as they can still be used for a bit of learning and honestly quite a bit of fun compared to what is often covered in school.

Graphics Exercises

Using vectr.com to
draw animals
Chav animals with
Photopea

Scratch Projects

My apologies for the theme music at the start of each video, seemed like a good idea at the time. So I am sorry if it eats into your brain, it’s a bit like what happens after you go on the “It’s a Small World” ride at Disney.

These are not simple watch and repeat style videos that you find on YouTube channels and other websites. Each video will set a task to do in each game build and you can either have a go at the task yourself, or if you get stuck then you can get some help from the solution video. You have to work things out for yourself and not just blindly follow a video and learn very little. Each game build has a final video that identifies a number of extension tasks that could be undertaken to stretch yourself.

DTP Projects

Microsoft Publisher is probably the most overlooked program used in schools. It’s what you use if you want to design a newspaper, magazine, cover for a video game or even something like a box for a board game. Yet most schools will run with Microsoft Word and it’s just the wrong tool.