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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Y5T1 Stormbreaker book cover

Sep 072022
 

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  • Shared files – Stormbreaker book cover
  • Copy
    • the book shape
    • Red bar at the bottom
    • Text
    • Match colours

Y5T1 Book covers – text and transparent images

Oct 062021
 

Transparent images

  1. Alex Rider silhouette
    1. Search for a picture of Alex Rider silhouetter
    2. Drag to your j2e5 book cover page
    3. Go to JIT5 – Paint – choose transparent background (last one)
    4. Find “my picures”, click on Alex Rider picture
    5. Click + to make it bigger
    6. Click on the page to stamp it on
    7. Choose the fill tool (bucket) and choose the eraser
    8. Click on the white and it should remove the background
    9. “Save a image”
    10. In j2e5 go to pictures and drag Alex Rider onto the page
  2. Sphere with triangles
    1. Search to find black sphere with white background
    2. RH click and “Copy image”
    3. Go to https://onlinepngtools.com/create-transparent-png
    4. Hover on left box then CTRL-V
    5. Save as, download picture
    6. Go to https://pinetools.com/invert-image-colors
    7. Choose file – Google Drive
    8. Click png to save – “copy to clipboard” – in j2e5 Ctrl v to paste

Y5 Book covers

Oct 012019
 
  1. Copy Stormbreaker cover
    1. Save with a different name
  2. Create complete cover with spine and back cover
    1. Match the style of the front
  3. Copy another front cover
  4. Design your own front cover

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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