Y4 eBooks: When you have finished typing your story…

  1. Could you improve your story in any way?  Add some description,…
  2. Check your spellings.  You could use:
    1. the Lighthouse Story wordlist in j2e that I have shared with you
    2. a friend to help
    3. RH click on an underlined word to see a suggestion
  3. Divide your story into 3 parts and copy and paste onto three separate j2e5 pages.
  4. Make the text bigger and choose an effective font.
  5. Decide what picture you want as a button to link to the next page.

Y4 eBooks: How do I link pages in j2e?

Success steps

  1. Login to j2e
  2. save two pages
  3. create text button
  4. link pages
  5. draw a shape
  6. use group to create button
  7. save after changes
  8. **link to a website
  9. ** Animate your button

Next time, we will create a story ebook by copying a story, designing pages and  linking the pages together.  What will make a good eBook?

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