Welcome to Term 6

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I hope everyone is well and had a happy half term.  Thank you for everyone who has had a go at some of the activities on the blog or posted on Google Classroom – well done if you have used j2e for some of your work.

Here are some Computing activities and websites to keep us going, wherever we are…

Keep learning, keep active and keep in touch!

Quick links:

Computing in Term 6

  1. If you havn’t done Term 5 work, please do that first
  2. Term 6 units
  3. Extra ideas
    • Use j2e5 templates or visual tools to explore ideas in your topic or complete topic work set by your teachers.
    • Learn how to use Tinkercad and design somethng (see Y6 unit)
    • Coggle mind map of your topic (See Y5T5 unit)
    • Create an animation using JIT5, Scratch, Gifpaint or an phone/tablet animation app – see Y4 animated story unit
      • I’m looking for some animations like the ones here, for example 3,4,5,6 to put on a new website
    • Use Scratch or Hour of Code to develop your programming skills.

 

Y6 Tinkercad

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Sign up to Tinkercad

  • Follow the link and instructions on j2message

Learn

  • Click Learn – Starters
  • Work your way through the tutorials to get the basic skills of designing in Tinkercad
  • When you think you know what you are doing then you can move onto…

Design

  • Design something.
  • It could be a new item of furniture, a room or garden latyout, a building,…use your imagination or look at some projects for inspiration.

Y6 LF Make a documentary (3 weeks)

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Week 3 – finishing

  • Intro (eg black screen, black with title, black)
  • Images with narration
    • Adjust volumes so info is clear
    • Adjust length of images to fit narration – with small gaps for music interlude (only a few seconds)
  • Credits
    • Written and presented by … (first names only)
    • St Mark’s C of E Junior School, Salisbury, 2019
    • Music [name of music] by Kevin MacLeod
    • Insert this picture: “incompetech.com   License: CC BY creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (or include the slide from me)”

Week 2

By the end of today:

  • All pictures into iMovie
  • Including all blank/title/quote screens
  • Find backing music and email me
  • Narration in note form ready top start narrating next week

iPads

GMail app

  1. Log in
  2. At end of session – manage accounts – delete account

Google image search

  1. Swipe colours to the left to find usage rights – labelled for non commercial use

Week 1

  1. Choose your favourite topic from any year at St Mark’s
  2. Plan (use email to draft)
    1. Ideas
    2. Pictures (labelled for non commercial use; attach to email)
    3. Facts
    4. Intro
    5. Outro
    6. Script
    7. Music – look on incompetech.com for appropriate soundtrack music – email me the link
  3. Planning success – minimum
    1. 5 picures
    2. 5 pieces of information (in own words) t go with pictures
    3. music
  4. Produce iMovie (access email on iPad – don’t forget to remove account at end)
    1. Pictures
    2. Edit lengths
    3. Credits
    4. Title
    5. Music – incompetech.com
  5. Share
    1. Save
    2. Publish
    3. Promote