MrW's Computing Blog

• Do you need a new wall  calendar for 2016?
• Are the ones in the shops too expensive or not quite what you want?
• Why not make your own?

Get a free printable blank calendar from the Internet – you could

• Google image search for 2016 calendar if you want the whole year or, for example “2016 calendar January” if you want one month at a time
• use a site like http://print-a-calendar.com/make-a-calendar/2016 to print the months

Then create some artwork or find pictures for each month – could be

• your own artwork – drawing, painting,…
• your own artwork on the computer –  there are some ideas and tools here
• individual pictures or a collage of pictures cut from magazines
• photos from the Internet

Have fun and be curios and creative!

Draw a picture in Revelation Natural Art

1. Start – All programs –  icons 64 – Revelation Natural Art
2. Explore tools
3. Use file – new, save
4. Edit-undo(CTRL-Z)
5. Save in own folder
   1. save  – Your name
   2. file type –  JPEG
   3. file name – something sensible

Use picture in j2e5

1. log into j2e
2. upload a file in j2e (click “upload” button in j2launch)
3. new j2e5 page
4. insert picture into j2e5 page
5. crop picture (drag top and side blue square)
6. duplicate picture (+)
7. line up pictures – could use grid and snap to grid at bottom

Challenge

• Draw another picture or two so that your border is more interesting
• Use different tools to draw your picture
• Use the grid and snap tools to line up your pictures better

Reflect

What could we use your bordered page for?

Mr W’s spiral – see the code

Joe’s spiral  – see the code

Bill’s spiral  – see the code

https://code.org/learn