May 012018
 
  1. Prezi
    1. http://prezi.com/v7mm9_wuxizf/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
  2. Packet’s tale
    1. http://viewpure.com/ewrBalT_eBM?start=0&end=0
  3. Mysterious cables
    1. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/oct/23/mysterious-cable-uk-us
  4. Submarine cable map
    1. https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
  5. http://viewpure.com/H9R4tznCNB0?start=0&end=0
  6. Packet game
  7. How do search engines work?
    1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/ztbjq6f#zqdfyrd
  8. BBC KS2 Computer Science
    1. https://www.bbc.com/education/topics/zs7s4wx
Apr 242018
 

Previous post – Mindmaps (1)

  • Go to Google Drive
  • Open your mind map from last week
  • Add ideas to your mind map
  • Can you…
    • Make the text bigger for main branches? (Drag the corner)
    • Add a picture?
      • On a new tab, find a picture
      • Click tools – clipart (we need really simple pictures)
      • Save image
      • In Coggle, click on the picture button and find your picture in Downloads or My Drive
  • ** In Coggle
    • Use the ? menu to learn how to do tasks quicker (shortcuts)
    • Click on markdown  on ? menu to find out how to format text
  • You could get some ideas for main branches and information here:

Success steps

  • recall ideas from topic;
  • classify ideas;
  • understand branch structure/rules of mindmaps;
  • explore new software with curiosity and positivity;
  • load blog.

Next post – Mindmaps (3)

Apr 242018
 

Famous Ships

  • Open this j2e page:  https://www.j2e.com/st-marks-wilts-sch-uk/Mr+W/Y3+Famous+ships+with+table/
  • Save
  •  Complete the table by putting in the lengths of the ships
  • Create a horizontal bar chart and make it the width of the page
  • Send the graph to the back by clicking ScreenHunter_80 May. 08 14.22
  • Make each ship the length of the bar on the bar chart.
  • Delete the bar chart
  • Line up the ships to make a bar chart of ships
  • Make the page into an attractive poster
    • add a title
    • could add a ship page border
    • don’t resize the ships!
Apr 202018
 

CTRL + 

This will save it to your files in Google Drive

Click “Copy to clipboard” then you can go a document, eg j2e5, Google Slides,… and click CTRL-V to paste

You will need to crop the bits you don’t want – in j2e5, select it then drag the blue side squares

 

Thank you to Luke for discovering this for us!

Apr 202018
 

j2e5

  •   Picture –  – camera – 
  • Take pictures of front, left, right face
  • On one page
  • Fill the page, eg one big, two small
  • Crop (drag blue side squares) to get rid of background
  • 3 pictures
  • Save as “picasso”

Mr Picassohead!

  • Create your own Picasso-style line drawing
  • http://www.picassohead.com/create.html
  • When yo have finished:
    • CTRL – square with two lines  
    • Copy to clipboard
    • Go to new j2e5 page
    • CTRL – V  paste
    • Crop and enlarge
Mar 222018
 
  • Continue to work through these tasks.
  • Have a look at this video for any tips to finish off any tasks:

    Help video

LF1 Logging in

  1. Go to Scratch
  2. Log in, eg stm-ab14
  3. Passwords –

LF2 Making things move

  1.  Scratch cat
    1. Set size to 50%
    2. Make him always running
    3. Make him move
      1. forward with up arrow
      2. turn left and right with left/right arrows
  2. Balloon
    1. Make it follow the mouse
    2. Make it always the same way up
  3. Ball
    1. Make it always spinning
    2. Make it move up down left right with the keys w, s, a, d
  4. Car
    1. Make it drive to and fro across the screen

LF3 Changing costumes

  1. Ball
    1. Duplicate the ball costume several times to make a popping animation
    2. Make it pop (change costumes) when the mouse pointer touches it
    3. Add a popping sound
  2. Avery walking
    1. Make Avery walk left and right when g and h pressed
    2. Make Avery face correct direction and always walking

LF4 Share

  1. Click share
  2. In j2e my files, click your name, settings and refresh the scratch section
  3. Check your j2e file appears in my files

LF5 Gravity

  1. Make some steps
  2. Program Avery so that they fall down unless they are on the steps

LF 6 Firing

  1. Create a new sprite, eg bananas
  2. Make them follow the Scrath cat
  3. When you press space, fire the bananas in the direction it is pointing
  4. Make the car disappear if you fire a banana at it!

LF7 Make your own adaptations

  1. Use the sprites that you have set up so far and add some more code
  2. You could
    1. add sounds
    2. new controls
    3. new interactions between sprites
    4. be creative!

LF8  Plan a Scratch game

  1. Theme?
  2. Movement – what controls? keyboard? arrow keys? mouse position? mouse click?
  3. Background – how does it interact? maze, platforms…
  4. Sprites – how do they interact?
  5. Start t build your game – bit by bit, block by block…

 

Mar 212018
 

Watch the videos and use them to improve your Egyptian Maze game.

Video 1  – Movement through a maze

  1. Arrow keys
  2. Point in correct direction
  3. Stop at walls
  4. Backpack

Video 2 – Code so far

  1. Scratch cat – movement, react to baddies
  2. Baddies – glide across the screen
  3. Door
  4. Backgrounds

Video 3 – Next level

  1. When cat touches door, switch to the next level
  2. Send the cat back to the start

Next steps…

  • Create another level or two
  • Create a variable called Lives that starts at 3 and takes one off every time you hit a baddie
  • Make a Game Over background – make it switch to that background when you have no lives.

 

 

Mar 082018
 

LF1 Logging in

  1. Go to Scratch
  2. Log in, eg stm-ab14
  3. Passwords –

LF2 Making things move

  1.  Scratch cat
    1. Set size to 50%
    2. Make him always running
    3. Make him move
      1. forward with up arrow
      2. turn left and right with left/right arrows
  2. Balloon
    1. Make it follow the mouse
    2. Make it always the same way up
  3. Ball
    1. Make it always spinning
    2. Make it move up down left right with the keys w, s, a, d
  4. Car
    1. Make it drive to and fro across the screen

LF3 Changing costumes

  1. Ball
    1. Duplicate the ball costume several times to make a popping animation
    2. Make it pop (change costumes) when the mouse pointer touches it
    3. Add a popping sound
  2. Avery walking
    1. Make Avery walk left and right when g and h pressed
    2. Make Avery face correct direction and always walking

LF4 Share

  1. Click share
  2. In j2e my files, click your name, settings and refresh the scratch section
  3. Check your j2e file appears in my files

LF5 Gravity