Y5 LF: Create an information poster using different tools

Jan 182022
 

1 – What makes an effective information poster

  • A good information posted should show lots of information at a glance.
  • Look at these information posters
    • What makes them effective?
    • What would make them better?
  • Find some other effective information posters and make a list of features

  

 2 – Tools

  1. We are going to explore three tools for making posters:
    1. Google Docs (Go to Google Drive – Create – Googe Docs)
    2. j2e5
    3. j2Office – Writer
  2. Open each of these tools and have a brief explore – what tools are there?

3 – Make an information poster about South America

  1. Here is an information poster that I made on Google Docs
    1. Example Sourth Africa poster
  2. I have saved a file in each tool for you to edit – the text and pictures are all there, you just need to edit
    1. Google Docs – link on Google Classroom
    2. j2Office Writer South America Poster
    3. j2e5 South America Poster

3 Create a j2e5 poster

  • Use the Success Criteria that we have written together
  • Be resilient – don’t be happy with “ok”

4 Make a Google Doc information book page

  1. Go to Google Classrrom (Class 21) – Classwork – South America  Information Page Google Doc
  2. Insert a table in Google Doc to arrange facts and pictures
    1. Make the border lines invisible
    2. Colour the cells
    3. Change width/merge cells
  3. Insert pictures
    1. Put them in different places
    2. Crop – eg banner picture at top/bottom
  4. Style
    1. Choose font, colours (one or two only)
    2. Avoid rainbox, fancy fonts
  5. Information
    1. Keep it simple and short – but informative

5 j2e5 mini book

6 Evaluation

  • Which tool is easiest to use?
  • Which creates the best poster?

Success Criteria 1

  • Bold title
  • Fill the page
  • Stand out
  • Dividing into sections/blocks
  • Pictures/symbols
  • Lots of info

Success Criteria 2 – fine tuning

  • Big (easy to read) font
  • No highlighting
  • Space
  • Balance
  • Centre

Y3 Finishing our topic pages

Mar 052019
 

LF Using j2e5 tools

Success steps

1 Finish border

  1. Finish your border – see last blog

2 Title

  1. Add the title:  EXTREME EARTH
    1. You could use the cool text website
      1. Choose a style
      2. Type the title
      3. Create logo
      4. Drag and drop to j2e5
      5. or
      6. RH click on the title – copy image
      7. In j2e – CTRL-V to paste

3 Add pictures + text

  1. Search volcano, earth, earthquake pictures in j2e5
    1. resize, position
    2. crop
      1. drag the middle blobs
      2. choose a crop shape
  2. Add words to do with the topic:
    1. mantle, magma, lava, volcano,…

4 Add name

  1. Add your name and class at the bottom

5 Editing

  1. Space things out evenly – no big gaps, pictures paced evenly
  2. Look at some book covers to help you with your design

6 DON’T FORGET TO SAVE!

Y3 LF Drawing, grouping and duplicating in j2e5

Feb 272019
 

1 Making a page border with your own drawing

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

Success steps

  1. Start a new j2e5 page
  2. Use the drawing tools to draw a SIMPLE picture
  3. Change colours
  4. Use group button – to make it one picture
  5. Move items with the mouse
  6. Use grid and snap
  7. Use duplicate tool to copy shapes
  8. Select more than one item by dragging a box
  9. Be resilient – take care when lining up shapes
  10. Save with a useful name

Finished?

Put your name in the bottom right hand corner.

Make the page into a topic title page:

  1. Add a BIG title:  Extreme Earth
  2. Use the picture search in j2e to find pictures of the Earth, volcanoes,…
  3. Fill the page

Y3 LF Improving our pages

Feb 282018
 

Finish border

  1. Finish your volcano border – see last blog

Title

  1. Add the title:  EXTREME EARTH
    1. You could use the cool text website
      1. Choose a style
      2. Type the title
      3. Create logo
      4. Drag and drop to j2e5
      5. or
      6. RH click on the title – copy image
      7. In j2e – CTRL-V to paste

Add pictures + text

  1. Search volcano, earth, earthquake pictures in j2e5
    1. resize, position
    2. crop
      1. drag the middle blobs
      2. choose a crop shape
  2. Add words to do with the topic:
    1. mantle, magma, lava, volcano,…

Add name

  1. Add your name and class at the bottom

Editing

  1. Space things out evenly
  2. Look at some book covers to help you with your design