Creating animated icons for the website!
- Have a look at the Year 3 blog icon.
- Go to http://gifpaint.com/ and try it out!
- brush size
- colours
- speed
- copy and paste frames
- onion skins
- Can you make an animated icon for one of our blogs?
- Think about:
- keeping it simple
- filling the space
- colours
- keeping it the same for a second?
- When you are done – “encode gif” and save it where I can find it – or even better, email it to me!
Y6 Scratch: How does decomposing help me plan a game?
1 Sign up for a school scratch account. This will let you work on your projects at home but also save onto our school system for me to look at.
- https://scratch.mit.edu/
- “join scratch”
- Username: st-marks-bw14 (your j2e username)
- Password:
- Email – use my email address
2 Let’s make a tables game!
- Choose one of these games – what elements do they have?
- Use this form to decompose the tables game
- Tables game planning (if you need it…):
- http://code-it.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/tables_planning.pdf
- http://code-it.co.uk/scratch/tablesgame/tablesgameoverview
Y3 Scratch: How do we decompose a game?
1 Sign up for a school scratch account. This will let you work on your projects at home but also save onto our school system for me to look at.
- https://scratch.mit.edu/
- “join scratch”
- Username: st-marks-bw14 (your j2e username)
- Password:
- Email – use my email address
2 Let’s make a car game!
How to create a smoking car game: http://code-it.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/scratch_smoking_car_game.pdf
Y4: What elements does a game have?
- Sign up for a school scratch account. This will let you work on your projects at home but also save onto our school system for me to look at.
- https://scratch.mit.edu/
- “join scratch”
- Username: st-marks-bw14 (your j2e username)
- Password:
- Email – use my email address
- Let’s make a maze game!
- Go to http://code-it.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/scratchcrabmaze.pdf
- Follow the instructions carefully.
- There re also more resources here: http://code-it.co.uk/scratch/crabmaze
- Save
- Your file automatically saves if you are logged in.
- However, please save in your folder so I can see you progress.
- File – download tto your computer – …
- Be reflective
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Shakespeare in emojis!
Here is a summary of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Mrs Koziol
Can you read and understand it?
Tell the story of Macbeth using emojis!
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- Write in an email (as it has lots of emojis)
- Mild – Use Mrs Koziol’s Macbeth summary but use your own emojis
- Spicy – use this summary to help you
- Hot – can you make it 140 character or less (suitable for Tweeting). Can you make it purelyin emojis (and still understandable – by others – ask someone else to read it to check)
- What do you think Shakespeare would think of emojis?
- Email you work to me at the end of the lesson.
- Write in an email (as it has lots of emojis)
Take part in Shakespeare’s World
- This is a citizen science project where you will be helping historians discover more about Tudor times.
- Go to https://www.shakespearesworld.org/#/ and follow the instructions
- Copy and paste all of your transcriptions into an email and send to me at the end of the lesson.
Shakespeare Week Scratch activity
LQ: How do I make a conversation in Scratch.
- Open Scratch https://scratch.mit.edu/ and click Try it out
- Go to http://code-it.co.uk/scratch/scratchconversation and follow the instructions.
- To save: Give it a title, click file – download to your computer – find your name and save
- Challenge 1 : Can you make the characters come on at the beginning? Hint – use the following blocks for each sprite – adjust the numbers to position them how you want them.
- Challenge 2: Can you edit your characters to look the part? Click costumes then use the painting tools
- Challenge 3: Can you add a title screen?
Success steps
- Read instructions carefully
- Be resilient, positive and curious – give it a go!
- Understand that one person needs to wait as the other one talks!
- Drag and drop instruction blocks
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LQ: How do I create an effective Prezi?
Improving your Prezi
- Be resourceful:
- Look at some example prezis. Here are the winners of the 2014 Prezi competition
- Can you find help topics/videos?
- Be creative: Create your own on a school topic theme from this term. Think about the purpose and audience of your presentation.
- Be curious: What different tools can you use? Theme, shapes, pictures, fonts, paths,…?
- Be reflective:
- What makes Prezi effective as a presentation tool?
- Look at the “Presentation” progression on j2review – what is your next step and how will you get there?
- Can you:
- add a picture (don’t forget to search for pictures “labelled for non-commercial use)
- add a background picture
- change the theme
- change the order of the information
- add some background music (use the link below, click download as mp3; in Prezi, insert – add background music – look in downloads folder)
Be positive and creative!
How do I place a credit for this music in my project?
Title Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/