Y6 What elements can I add to my presentation?

Jan 262017
 

For each of your presentations, try to use as many tools – effectively – as you can:

  • Text
    • Titles, subtitles, text
    • A few, well chosen fonts, colours
  • Images
    • Labelled for non-commercial use
    • Background images (careful with text on top)
    • Crop/resize images
  • Video/sound
    • Background music – Prezi (search this blog for tips)
    • Speak buttons, eg j2e
  • Transitions
    • Page turns, hyperlinks, movement

Success steps

  • Explore tools in Prezi, Google Slides, PPT and j2e5 page
  • Log into Prezi
  • Insert different elements
  • Make deliberate choices of style and layout
  • Reflect critically on choices

Y4 Choosing pictures for your eBook

Jan 252017
 

In Google images, click

  1. Search tools
  2. Usage rights
  3. Labelled for non-commercial use

These images are ok for you to use in your eBook as you have permission to use them.

Y4 How do I improve my eBook?

Jan 252017
 

Writing our own stories

Make up a simple story about the Egyptians or use my example:

  1. Children visit a museum to study Egyptians
  2. Find a secret room but are transported to ancient Egypt
  3. Wander around Egypt discovering new things
  4. Arrested as spies and taken to Pharaoh
  5. Put in a prison cell
  6. Find a secret door and appear back in the museum

Success steps

  • Log in to j2e
  • Finish writing a simple story
  • Make the font size large (>24)
  • 5 pages
  • Change page size to 800×600

Next steps

  • Background pictures
  • Add description to your story
  • Check links work

Y5 What tools can I use in Prezi?

Jan 192017
 
  • Log into Prezi
  • Decide on your Prezi topic
  • Note the colour levels and expectations so you know what you are aiming for
  • Share your Prezi with me – help video
  • Here’s how to embed your Prezi in your j2e page:
    • In Prezi, click “present”
    • Underneath the Prezi, click “Embed”
    • Copy the code by pressing the button
    • Open you j2e “Prezi” page
    • Click on the “video/sound/embed” button then on the top option
    • Paste the Prezi embed code into the box
    • Click on your page to drop the Prezi there
    • Place and resize your Prezi on your page and save
  • Explore and discover tools and options – be curious!
  • Be sociable – share discoveries and support each other; tutorial videos
  • Be resourceful
    • Search for other Prezi posts on this blog
    • Are there tutorial videos on the Prezi website?

What next?

  • What more do you need to do? How did that go?
  • Plan and develop project;
  • work on it at home/lunch club…

 

 

Y4: How do I create my adventure story eBook?

Jan 162017
 

Setting up your story eBook

  1. We are going to use a j2e5 page for each page of our story
  2. Watch this video on how to create a story eBook in j2e5
  3. Set up your j2e pages
  4. I have shared the pictures with you – click the picture button then the “double blobby people” on the right
  5. If you are making a choose your own adventure story, your link buttons will be choices instead of “next page” and “back a page”

Writing our own stories

Make up a simple story about the Egyptians or use my example:

  1. Children visit a museum to study Egyptians
  2. Find a secret room but are transported to ancient Egypt
  3. Wander around Egypt discovering new things
  4. Arrested as spies and taken to Pharaoh
  5. Put in a prison cell
  6. Find a secret door and appear back in the museum

Success steps

  • Log in to j2e
  • Create and save j2e file with several pages
  • Insert images;
  • Create links to other pages;
  • Test links in view mode
  • Start writing a simple story

Next steps

  • Background pictures
  • Finish story

Y3 How do I improve my page border?

Jan 162017
 

1 Skill practice

2 Your border

  • Now work on your page border
  • Move pictures so they are
    • just one shape
    • all shapes the same size
    • lined up exactly
    • exactly the same distance apart
    • there is a picture in each corner
  • If finished
    • Add your name – small at the bottom
    • Do another border – with a pattern of more than one picture
    • OR make a double border
    • If you have checked with an adult, print.

3 Making a page border with your own drawing

  • Use this video to help you make a page border with your own drawings.

4Using a drawing program

  • Find Revelation Natural Art in Start – all programs – icons64
  • Explore tools
  • Create a picture of a toy: car, teddy, LEGO brick,… Keep it simple.
  • Save into file – save as JPEG.
  • In j2launch – upload file.
  • Create j2e page border by copying your picture.

Y6 How do I plan my multimedia presentation?

Jan 122017
 
  • This term we are going to produce an informative multimedia presentation on:
    • an area of your topic work
    • a wild animal, plant or habitat or environmental issue
    • an adventure story where the reader makes decisions along the way
  • Look at the “presenting” skills progression on j2review – it will be your success criteria:
    • RED – use different tools
    • ORANGE – changing elements, eg font, colour, size, position, rotate, crop
    • YELLOW – include different elements, chosen for effect [text, pictures, shapes, arrows, animations, video, audio …]
    • GREEN – attention to detail – lining up, consistent style, group tools, planning, [hyperlinks]
    • BLUE – deliberate, reasoned choice of layout, style, [colour scheme], transitions, accepting and offering advice
    • PURPLE – polished work, critically evaluate and improve
  • Decide on your topic
  • You are going to produce all four! Prezi, PPT, Google Slides, j2e
  • Share your projects with me as follows:
    1. PowerPoint – save in you folder on the system – also upload to  your Google Drive schoolwork folder.
    2. Google Slides – create inside your schoolwork folder which should be shared with me
    3. Prezi – share your Prezi with me by entering my email address
    4. On you “T3 multimedia project plan” – record what you will be creating – also include links to all of your files

Success steps

  • Create and save a Prezi, Google Slides, PPT and j2e5 page
  • Log into Prezi
  • Insert links in j2e5 to presentation files
  • Start project with each tool

Y4 How do I plan a choose you own adventure story?

Jan 112017
 

Choose you own adventure stories

  1. Go to this site and try some of these stories:  http://www.asixthgradesomething.com/blog/choose-your-own-adventure-stories-from-ancient-egypt
  2. Here are some examples about eSafety: https://www.digitalcompass.org/game/index.html
  3. Here is a more advanced story for the Vikings  http://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/397886ba81532427d6cf5396f685668f884374bd.swf

Setting up your story eBook

  1. We are going to use a j2e5 page for each page of our story
  2. Watch this video on how to create a story eBook in j2e5
  3. Set up your j2e pages
  4. I have shared the pictures with you – click the picture button then the “double blobby people” on the right
  5. If you are making a choose your own adventure story, your link buttons will be choices instead of “next page” and “back a page”

Writing our own stories

Make up a simple story about the Egyptians or use my example:

  1. Children visit a museum to study Egyptians
  2. Find a secret room but are transported to ancient Egypt
  3. Wander around Egypt discovering new things
  4. Arrested as spies and taken to Pharaoh
  5. Put in a prison cell
  6. Find a secret door and appear back in the museum

Success steps

  • Log in to j2e
  • Create and save j2e file with several pages
  • Insert images;
  • Create links to other pages;
  • Test links in view mode
  • Start writing a simple story

Next steps

  • Background pictures
  • Finish story

 

 

Y5 What is the difference between Prezi, PowerPoint and Google Slides?

Jan 052017
 

Look at some example prezis. Here are the winners of the 2014 Prezi competition

Signing up

  1. Sign up for a free Prezi account using your school email.
  2. It must be a student account https://prezi.com/profile/registration/edu/?license_type=EDUENJOY
  3. USE only initials for your last name
  4. DO NOT enter your full name or any personal details.
  5. MAKE SURE you keep your info and prezis private.
  6. By using your school email, you are bound by your ICT agreement that you have signed
  7. You are not permitted to use your school email to sign up to anything else.

 

Y6 What can I use to make a multimedia presentation?

Jan 052017
 
  • This term we are going to produce an informative multimedia presentation on:
    • an area of your topic work
    • an animal, plant or habitat or environmental issue
    • an adventure story where the reader makes decisions along the way
  • Look at the “presenting” skills progression on j2review – it will be your success criteria:
    • RED – use different tools
    • ORANGE – changing elements, eg font, colour, size, position, rotate, crop
    • YELLOW – include different elements, chosen for effect [text, pictures, shapes, arrows, animations, video, audio …]
    • GREEN – attention to detail – lining up, consistent style, group tools, planning, [hyperlinks]
    • BLUE – deliberate, reasoned choice of layout, style, [colour scheme], transitions, accepting and offering advice
    • PURPLE – polished work, critically evaluate and improve
  • Today’s job is to look at different tools that we could use for our project
  • Create a j2e page called “T3 multimedia project plan” – record what you try and you ideas
  • In j2launch library, find and play with any presenting tools
  • Also, try finding other tools online – we may need to think carefully about eSafety and signing up to new tools.
  • Are there any that we can add to Google Apps? or sign in with Google?  Please check with me first
  • Some to consider:
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