MrW's Computing Blog

1 Skill practice

• Finish my example page border (in shared files) by duplicating the top to the bottom; and the left to the right
• Selecting and duplicating help video

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.

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

• 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:
  • j2e – can include text, shape, animation, linking, images, video, audio, can embed other elements
  • Prezi
  • PowerPoint
  • ThingLink  ?
  • Tools from here:  http://ukedchat.com/ictmagic/digital-web-tools/ 
  • Web tools for kids:  https://sites.google.com/site/webtoolsbox/avatars/talking-avatars

Marnie created this computer-generated Christmas card using repeat, lists and random commands, following a set of instructions.
(Click on the pop-out button to see her code)

LQ How do I debug LOGO code?

1. Work your way through these files
2. Open
3. Debug
4. Save

Success Steps

• Read code as a set of instructions – step by step
• Spot spelling mistakes
• Edit and play to test changes

LQ How can I decorate a LOGO Christmas tree?

1. Open this file
2. Think about what you could add to decorate the tree (bauble, star, bell, present, angel, tinsel….)
3. For each item, make a procedure, eg
   1. to bauble
   2. instructions for bauble
   3. end
4. Then use pu setxy pd to position your items on the tree:
   1. pu setxy 100 100 pd bauble
5. ** For a line of items, you could use repeat, eg
   • repeat 4
   • [
   • bauble
   • pu fd 30 rt 90 fd 40 lt 90 pd
   • ]
6. *** Include a variable with your procedure  to make it different colours or sizes
   • to bauble :col :size
     • colour :col
     • circle :size
     • fill
   • end
7. When you “call” bauble, make sure you give it a colour and size, eg
   1. bauble “red  30