Come and do 10 minutes typing.
Tuesday Lunch – Years 3 and 4 – 12.45-1.00
Wednesday Lunch – Years 5 and 6 – 12.15-12.30
Jan 182019
Jan 172019
Work through these videos in order. Don’t forget to save!
- Video tutorial – seeting up page links in j2e5
- Video tutorial – setting up page links in Scratch
- Video tutorial 2 – using page numbers as links in j2e5
- Video tutorial 2 – Making page links and hiding links in Scratch
- Video tutorial 3 – Show what page we’re on – in Scratch
Now you have set up the links for an eBook in j2e5 and Scratch.
Using your knowledge from your Roman topic, create the content for your eBook. Choose a small topic, eg Roman Food.
- An attractive title page
- 3 more pages of information with one sentence on each and a picture.
- Whe you search for pictures – use “Images – tools – usage rights – labelled for non commercial use“
Jan 142019
(Y5 + Spruce only) Signing up…again
- We need to sign up again…
- This time, we will have username of the form: ab16-1stm
- I will send you a link to get to your class sign up page
In Scratch
- Complete a range of tutorials to learn different skills in Scratch 3
- Make a j2e5 page called Scratch 3 skills
- Add learning conversation to record what you have achieved today.
**Can you record a sound? You may need to allow access to the microphone…
Jan 072019
- Go to Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/
- Click “Start creating”
- Watch the intro video
- What is different in Scratch 3?
- What is the same?
- What did you remember? What is new to you?
- Click “Tutorials” – start with “Animate an adventure game”
- If you finish that one, develop it, or try another tutorial.
- How could you use Scratch for a topic based project?
- Save your work to your Google Drive.
- You could also try Y4 task – hyperlinked pages in Scratch – a way of setting up an interactive ebook with linked pages in scratch.
Jan 072019
- Click here: Page links then click “See inside”
- Making the hyperlinks:
- Click on “Stage” then “Backdrops” to see the different pages
- Click on “sprite 1” then “Code”
- Add these blocks:
- Events: When this sprite clicked
- Looks: Switch backdrop to
- Change the backdrop to “next backdrop”
- Testing the link – click on Go to next page
- Now create the previous page links in the same way.
- You could also have the page numbers at the bottom so you can skip to any page.
- Can you make a button with shapes and text?
Video tutorial 2 – Making page links and hiding links
Video tutorial 3 – Show what page we’re on
Next steps – now we are ready to start designing our eBook.
- Plan the content:
- Title page
- What’s on each page
- Create pages by editing each backdrop
- Add more pages – you will then need more page number sprites with the code (you can just duplicate ones you already have and change their costumes, edit the code)
More to think about
- HTML is the language that is used to make webpages. Click on this link to see how links work in HTML : HTML links
- Make a simple adventure game by creating pages with doors which are links to a new page. It could be a maze…
Jan 052019
- Create and save two pages in j2e5:
- Page 1
- Page 2
- On Page 1 you need
- Title: “Page 1” – make it big!
- “Link to page 2”
- On Page 2 you need
- Title: “Page 2” – make it big!
- “Link to page 1”
- Making the hyperlinks:
- Select “link to page 2”
- Click “link” on the tool panel
- Click “browse…”
- Select Page 2
- Click “ok”
- SAVE
- Testing the link
- Make sure you have saved
- Click “view”
- Click on the link
- If it doesn’t work, try step 4 again.
- Now create the link back to page 1 from page 2
- Can you make a button with shapes and text?
- Add a link to my blog: https://st-marks-wilts-sch-uk.j2bloggy.com/MrWs-Computing-Blog/
More to think about
- HTML is the language that is used to make webpages. Click on this link to see how links work in HTML : HTML links
- Make a simple adventure game by creating pages with doors which are links to a new page. It could be a maze…
Dec 202018
- Go to j2launch – j2code – LOGO
- Start your program with:
- reset
- setpensize 5
- Copy the face…
- I started with the mouth: rt 45
- Use as many of these commands as possible:
- Movement: fd bk rt lt (with a space then a number)
- circle (with a space and a number)
- colour “yellow
- fill
- repeat 4 [ … ]
- arc 90 30 – can you work out how this works? (One number is the size, the other is the angle)
- Use the code below to move around the page without drawing:
- pu setxy 100 100 pd (The numbers are x y coordinates and the screen goes from -250 to 250)
- Are there any other commands you can show that you can use?
- Be resourceful:
- Your memory..
- Your old LOGO files
- Old blog posts – search my blog for “logo”
- instructions
- help videos
- x y coordinate finder (only goes up to 240/180 in Scratch – in LOGO it goes up to 250 on each axis)
- Challenge 1 – copy the house picture below
- Challenge 2 – make your own picture
- Challenge 3 – write the word Computing
Success steps
- Use known commands
- Use left-hand side panel to copy correct commands (syntax)
- Create a page with several elements
- Move around the screen using pu setxy …. pd
- **Learn new commands
- ** Use procedures
- Check code and debug
Dec 192018
Well done Alyssa for coding this amazing Christmas card in LOGO!
See Alyssa’s code here.
Dec 102018
FINAL CHALLENGE
Robot Santa face! Add features to make your robot face into Santa!
- Use fill – start with colour “darkblue fill to make a night time background
- Add a hat – fill in red with a white bobble
- colour “white for features
- Add a beard
- Add “Ho ho ho” text!
1 Label code with ;———–LABELS———–
2 ** Procedures to eye instructions end
- Go to j2code and click on LOGO
- Make sure you are on Level 3
- CHALLENGE: Write instructions in LOGO to make this picture.
TIPS
- Don’t get rid of your code! That’s the important bit.
- Keep pressing play (after every new command)
- Keep saving
- Useful commands
- pu = pen up so it doesn’t draw
- pd = so it draws again
- setpensize 10 for a thicker line
- circle 30
- arc 50 180 draws part of a circle
- repeat 4 [fd 100 rt 90] for a square
- pu setxy 50 60 pd to jump to a new place without drawing. Here’s a Scratch program to help find which numbers to use – Positioin finder
SUCCESS STEPS
- Try new commands and ideas – be curious
- Type accurately
- Spot your own mistakes – be resilient
- Save (logo face) and tag (y5logo)
FINISHED?
Can you…
- make it smile!
- add some spiky hair using repeat, eg
- change the shape of the right eye – a hexagon maybe…
- add a spiral ear
FINISHED AGAIN?!
- Start to design and create your own picture
- use: repeat, setxy, arc, circle, colour, fill
- Can you use procedures at the beginning?
Next time…
- Complete a challenge shape/picture using a range of commands
- Think of a simple picture with repeated elements, see here for examples. Use LOGO to draw it!
Dec 102018
- Draw some simple patterns on this Roman pattern ideas j2e5 file. Here are some ideas.
- Create the instructions in LOGO to draw your chosen one.
- j2launch – j2code – LOGO
- Click on Level 3
- Start your program with
- reset
setpensize 5- For each instruction you add, test it
- Make sure:
- the arrow finishes at the original level and across to the right a bit
- the arrow is pointing UP at the end of your instructions
- reset
- Put this above your instructions (to move it to the top corner)
- pu setxy -240 180 pd
- Test your code – you might need to change the numbers so that your shape fits on the screen.
- Repeat your shape by adding in this:
- repeat 4
- [
- your instructions
- ]
- Edit your code. Can you:
- Make the shape smaller by changing the fd numbers?
- Make more shapes so it takes up the whole length of the screen?
- Now put your code inside another repeat to get the four sides of the square:
- repeat 4
- [
- all of your shape code so far including the repeat
- rt 90 (to turn the corner)
- ]
Success steps:
- Copy instructions carefully
- Use fd, lt, rt with a space and a number
- Press play to run program
- Make instructions to draw simple shapes including forward, left and right
- Check instructions carefully for mistakes (bugs)
