{"id":4,"date":"2008-02-13T14:42:24","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T22:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-08-03T11:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:16:16","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/?page_id=4","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My name is Nicki Cooper (@GeekyNicki<\/a> on Bluesky) and I am a Computing Curriculum Specialist, I’m available to deliver physical computing workshops, consultancy, curriculum design and CPD at U Can Too<\/a>. You can find my full bio on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I am an award-winning former subject leader and Advanced Skills Teacher in Computing. \u00a0I hold a degree in computing and was teaching for 10 years before abruptly<\/a> taking a career break to raise my children. Before this my main focus in school was developing our key stage 3 curriculum to meet the new computing requirements and rolling out Google Classroom<\/a> as our new VLE.<\/p>\n

A particular passion of mine previously was the use of Kodu Game Lab<\/a> 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 in 2012<\/a>. I also won a NAACE Impact Award in 2014.<\/p>\n

I love bringing creativity into Computing through robotics, physical computing, and creating video games to hopefully help bridge the gender gap in the subject. My favourite coding and game making tools include MakeCode (micro:bit and Arcade), Flock XR, Construct 3 and Scratch.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My name is Nicki Cooper (@GeekyNicki on Bluesky) and I am a Computing Curriculum Specialist, I’m available to deliver physical computing workshops, consultancy, curriculum design and CPD at U Can… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}