Y5 How can I create an effective book cover?

Sep 112023
 

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Book covers

    1. Go to “my files”, “shared files”, your class folder
    2. Open Stormbreaker book cover
    3. Use the tools in j2e to copy one of them as accurately as possible.

Decomposition

We will start with the cover background colour and build it up in layers.  Break the problem down – decomposition

1 Cover shape, blocks and colour

  • Trace the shape of the whole book cover with the rectangle tool
  • Do the same for the red bar at the bottom
  • Select each shape and change the colour by using “fill”

2 Text

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Y4 Salisbury book covers 1, 2 and 3

Sep 122022
 

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Salsibury Book cover 1

  1. Go to “my files”, “shared files”, your class folder
  2. Open Salisbury book cover
  3. Trace the outline and the three blocks using the rectangle tool
  4. Change the outline and fill to be the right colour
  5. Add the text
  6. Get the picture from shared pictures – crop and resize to the right size.
  7. Send it underneath using the layers buttons

Salisbury book covers 2 and 3

  1. Open “Salisbury book cover 2”
  2. Arrange the elemnts to match the book cover.
  3. You will nned to
    1. Crop the image = drag the blue squared on the sides/top/bottom
    2. Resize the image = drag the corner blue squares
    3. Resize the text

Finished? Have a go at Salisbury book cover 3

Salisbury book cover (with the reflection)

  • Go back to the first book cover.
  • Try to search Google images for a good image
  • Or, use the image in shared images in j2e5
  • For the text, use Cool Text
  • In j2e5 stretch the text to the right size by holding the “shift key as you drag.

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Y4: Creating a book cover in j2e5

Sep 012022
 

LF: j2e tools

  1. Go to “my files”, “shared files”, your class folder
  2. Open the Salisbury book cover and edit
  3. Use the tools in j2e to copy it as accurately as possible.

Steps:

  1. Trace the shape of the cover.  Do the same for each rectangular block.   Break the problem down – DECOMPOSITION
  2. Finding the picture:  Use 3 OR 4 KEY SEARCH WORDS to find an exact picture match
  3. Copy and paste images from the Google Chrome (or drag onto j2e page)
  4. Choose fonts carefully
  5. Use layers (like a paper collage) = piles of paper tools bottom right
  6. Keep improving…

Useful tools…?

Stormbreaker sphere video:  https://drive.google.com/open?id=17c6qWtFTbxyR4Oob5jG59-uxL6naW2ti

Finished?

Have you copied the book cover exactly?

  • Layout
  • Spacing
  • Colours
  • Pictures
  • Fonts
  • Positioning

Choose a contrasting book cover to copy.

What have you learned about good cover design?

Y456 Searching skills

Oct 042019
 

Questions

  1. A fact
  2. A picture
  3. Three words to describe

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Skills

  • 3 Use the word kids or  ks2 when searching
  • 4 Use multiple key words to search
  • 4 Know some trusted websites on a range of topics
  • 5 Search for images marked for reuse
  • 5 Use CTRL-F to find words on a page
  • 5 Use Google search tools
  • 5 Reference websites used
  • 6 Use searching techniques:
    • “” exact phrases
    • * wildcard
    • – to exclude.

Y3456 T1 skills

Sep 302019
 

j2e5 skills

Year 3

  • Enter username and password
  • Select items (arrow tool – double click – blue squares)
  • Delete items (select, backspace)
  • Undo
  • Click and drag
  • Resize, rotate, reposition items
  • Change effects – colours, thickness, bold,…
  • Use tools
  • Duplicate items (drag )
  • Search for media within j2e ()
  • Save ()
  • Locate work

Year 4

  • Attention to detail
  • Choosing fonts
  • Layering items
  • Crop images
  • Drag select more than one item

Year 5

  • Use websites to generate content eg cooltext
  • Stretch images in j2e (shift-drag)
  • Attention to detail
  • Group items
  • Shape crop images

Year 6

  • Attention to detail
  • Independently use tools
  • Focus on audience, purpose
  • Actively solve problems

Learning skills

  • Is positive when exploring new tools
  • Has a “hands down and have a go” attitude.
  • Is sociable – ready to help, accepts help

Y456: Expectations, aspirations and j2e5 skills

Sep 102018
 

Expectations

  1. Look at Y3 post “Welcome to the Computer Room!”
    1. How would you rate yourselves this morning?
    2. Is there anything you would add for Y3s?  You could add as a comment

Aspirations

  • What would you like to achieve in Computing this year?

j2e5 skills

  1. In my files, shared files, open “j2e5 skills”
  2. Copy the objects exactly
    1. Y4 Open “food and farming book covers”, choose one book cover to copy.
    2. Y5  Open “stormbreaker cover” from shared files – can you make an exact copy using j2e tools…?
    3. Y6 Open “mayan book covers” – choose one book cover to copy exactly using j2e tools
  3. TIP 1 : start with the cover background colour and build it up in layers.  Break the problem down – decomposition
  4. TIP2: use 3 or 4 search words to find an exact picture match

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