My name is Nicki Maddams (@GeekyNicki on Twitter) and I am an Advanced Skills Teacher in Computing and Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert based at Hartsdown Academy in Margate, Kent. I have a degree in computing and I have been teaching for 8 years now and particularly enjoy developing computer science resources. My main focus in school is teaching sixth form and developing our key stage 3 curriculum to meet the new computing requirements. As an AST I am also available for outreach work with other schools on request. I am also open to employment opportunities within the Maidstone and Medway areas of Kent, click here to view my CV.
A particular passion of mine is the use of Kodu Game Lab as a tool for teaching basic programming skills to young people. For this I received the award for “Cutting Edge Use of Technology for Learning” at the Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum last year in Prague.
I live in Kent with my fiancé, Kevin, and two cats, Niles and Daphne. I am currently learning to play the piano in my spare time; having achieved Grade 1 last year I am now working towards Grade 2.
Just found you on Twitter!
I used to support your school with some of their ICT plans and ideas. Say hello to Tony Davies for me please…
I’m still supporting schools in Kent with ideas and joining up thinking… would be good to get a strong network of ICT fans going in Kent. KCC are not the best at doing this…
Would be good to chat… (I am not trying to sell you anything!!!)
Kind regards,
Neil
Hi Neil, good to hear from you. I will be sure to say hi to Tony! I like the sound of getting a strong ICT network going in Kent. I’m hoping to run a free event soon to deliver training to local teachers and hopefully hold a TeachMeet at the end, I’ll post details on here and on Twitter once I have it finalised.
Nicki
Hi Nikki
I have been reading through some of your ideas with interest and wondered if it were possible to discuss some of these in more depth particularly your work with computer programming and the use of Kodu to support learning. I would like to develop a new SOL for our KS3 students being as adventurous as p0ssible with it to bring students into ICT.
I would love to hear from you
Thanks
Mark Butler
Head of ICT
Driffield School
Hi Mark
Would be happy to discuss further with you. Would be best for you to contact me by email, you can find the address on the “Contact” page on this site
Nicki
Nikki,
I’m blown away with the standard of this work. Thank you so much for sharing. This is an inspiration to all of us who believe in building learning communities
Best wishes
Robert
Thank you for the kind comment Robert
Hi Nikki,
I found this website by chance on the internet and I have found the standard of your resources inspirational.
Thank you very much for sharing.
Nitesh