Tagged With: computing
Saving Images from Pixabay @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to use the website Pixabay to source and download images to use in their Christmas cards. We talked about how important it was that we simply couldn’t use pictures and text from the internet without getting permission from the person who created it. We learnt that there are … Continue reading
Creating a Branching Database @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to make a branching database game using j2e Branch. We chose 6 animals and then wrote questions to divide those animals in to two categories, Yes and No – a bit like playing Guess Who. At the end we played the game with our partner, who chose an … Continue reading
Making Digital Music @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders experimented with Musiclab to make music. There are 14 different activities to try and they especially liked Kandinsky where you draw shapes on the screen and those shapes make different musical sounds. They also liked Song Maker where you could click on the spaces for musical notes and also add … Continue reading
New Digital Leaders Logo @RRIS
This week children from Year 2 met to draw designs for the new logo. We looked at previous logos to see what we liked and didn’t like about each of the designs, then started on our own ones. We drew them with pens and pencils and then tried to draw the design on the computer … Continue reading
Adding Clipart @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to add clipart to their board game for that final professional look! It was a little more tricky than before but they managed it! “It was a little bit difficult trying to find where the clipart was but once we found it it was really easy to add … Continue reading
Adding Text @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders have learnt how to shape and add text to their board games. As we are making games to remind Year 1 children how to stay safe when using a computer or device that can access the internet, we included safety rules. If you remembered to use the rules you advanced … Continue reading
Colouring our Board Game @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders used their knowledge to colour their board games, adding colour blocks to the track, a jazzy background and text at the start and finish plus the title. “I’ve never had to add writing into a box before, it’s not that difficult and you can pick it up and move it … Continue reading
Our Board Game Outline @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders have learnt how to transfer their paper board games to the computer. Using our previous knowledge working with the snap to grid feature in Textease they copied their game to the computer. “It was quite easy as we used the same dots on the paper as on the screen so … Continue reading
Drawing our board game @RRIS
This week the digital leaders learnt how to draw out their board game plans on to paper, ready to transfer their design to the computer next week. The tracks are going to be in a 1,2,3 pattern so that there will be spaces to put in words to send people backwards and forward spaces if … Continue reading
Welcome to a New Year!
We are all so excited to start the new year and our very first digital leader meeting! This half term we are designing and making board games to share with the year 1 children, reminding them about how to keep safe when using the computer. To do this we are going to use Textease to … Continue reading