Category Archives: Lesson Links

Y5 What is a podcast?

  1. Listen to an example podcast, eg scientist.
  2. Notice two layers – speech and background. Notice sections. Are these done at the same time?
  3. Look at list of files from eg Ganges river podcast.
  4. Open up in audacity and tinker…
  5. OR explore Audacity by recording sound and exploring effects, deleting, cut/paste

Success steps

  • take part in discussion about podcasts
  • open Audacity
  • find a folder
  • open a sound file
  • select sound clips
  • explore effects; record sound

Next time

We are going to make a class podcast, each group/pair presenting some info on a topic eg space. Next week we will prep script. Look at audio colour level

 

 

Y6 What clever things can be done with LOGO in j2code?

Success steps

  1. Log into j2e
  2. Go to j2code and LOGO
  3. Explore the tools
  4. Look at some of the examples
  5. Edit them and see what they do
  6. Which parts of the program do you understand?
  7. Which commands/effects would you like to master?
  8. Think about making a project with LOGO
    1. Sketch/describe it in a j2e5 page
    2. List what you will need to learn to create your project
    3. Blog to your learning blog

How did that go?