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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
Safer Internet Day @RRIS
As part of our week long focus around internet safety, the Year 2 children met with all the Year 1 children to play their previously made board games. Everyone really enjoyed themselves and it was a really good way to remind everyone of rules to help keep yourself safe when online. “Their games are really … Continue reading
Fake Website Design @RRIS
After finding out last week that the Amazing Fish and Tree Octopus weren’t in fact true and that anyone can make up facts for people to believe, the Year 2 children set about creating their own fake website content as a lesson for next years Year 2 children. Basing their story around recent dinosaur discovery … Continue reading
Amazing Fish Research @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders helped the year 1 children with some valuable research all about the fish that was found living in a sandpit in America! Year 1 had come up with a set of questions that needed researching and the year 2 children set to work. “I can’t believe that a fish lived … Continue reading
Creating Avatars @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to create avatars to represent themselves safely when online. We had a choice of different websites to use and then saved our avatar to our files. Realistic Cartoon Person: http://doppelme.com/ Face: http://photos-share.com/ Marvel: https://www.marvelhq.com/create-your-own-super-hero “That was really easy to do and it much more sensible than using a … Continue reading
Designing Christmas Cards @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to design the inside of our Christmas cards. We used Textease so that we could easily combine Christmas clipart and text together. If you did not want to use the clipart within Textease you could download and save images from Pixabay and import those in to your work. … Continue reading
Creating Posters @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders created posters in Textease using the images they had downloaded and saved from Pixabay. When we made our Esafety board games everyone was very good at being able to retrieve and open their saved files so this week was a step further by importing their saved images into their work … Continue reading
Using Pixabay @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders have been learning the importance of not taking or copying images and text from the internet without permission from the owner of the work. We used Pixabay to search for free images (ensuring that Safesearch was enabled so the images were child friendly) and saved those images to our files … Continue reading