iPads
Micro:bit Challenge @RRIS
Hello everyone! I was very lucky to receive one of these in the post today – it’s a BBC micro:bit (a very small mini computer!) As you can see in the picture it comes with a wire to connect it to a computer and a battery pack. These are amazing little computers and I would … Continue reading
Quiver AR App @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders have been using the augmented reality app Quiver to bring pictures to life! There were lots of pictures to choose from and you could colour them however you liked. All of the pictures did something different for you to interact with. Everyone loved the games ones like the dinosaur and the … Continue reading
Digital Leaders Visit The Apple Store @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders were so excited to go out on a workshop visit to the Norwich Apple Store in Chapelfield shopping centre. We walked quickly as the sky looked rather grey in parts and luckily got there without getting wet! We were greeted by Neil at the door and shown to our workstations, … Continue reading
Learning to Take Photos @RRIS
This week we have been thinking about what makes a good photograph and we found out that taking a good one is a lot harder than just pointing the ipad and clicking the buttton! We tried to make sure that our photos were in focus, that the subject matter was central (and that we didn’t … Continue reading
Super Spheros! @RRIS
We were all very excited when some new programmable toys arrived in school – Spheros and Ollies! Sphero Education were very kind to donate them for us to use in our BETT Show presentation on January 22nd at the Excel Centre in London. They were a little tricky to manoeuvre to start with but once … Continue reading
Recording World Book Day Assembly 2015 @RRIS
What an amazing sight! 240 Year 1 and 2 children all dressed as book characters enjoying a singing assembly together.
Creating animations @RRIS
This week the DL’s have been using the iPads and computers to make animations. They experimented with Pivot Stickman and Animator Free so that we could use what they had learnt to go back to their classrooms to teach the rest of their class. Here is Alice’s Story of the Butterfly (it has a bit of … Continue reading
Making Sign-a-long Videos @RRIS
Lots of staff and children at school are learning how to use Sign-a-long signing language and so the DI’s thought it was a good idea to make some videos to help remind everyone of the signs. We worked in pairs with one person performing the sign and the other person using an iPad to record it, then … Continue reading
Learning to take Photographs @RRIS
Taking photographs and video is a big part of the Digital Leaders job and so we thought it was really important to have some lessons about how to take a good photograph. We used compact cameras, Galaxy tabs and iPads and compared how easy they were to use. We shared our photographs at the end … Continue reading
Visit to Norwich City Hall @RRIS
Some Digital Leaders were asked to attend a ceremony at Norwich City Hall to celebrate the Norwich In Bloom Awards. They took lots of fantastic photographs and tucked into some cake at the end!