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Creating a Branching Database @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to make a branching database game using j2e Branch. We chose 6 animals and then wrote questions to divide those animals in to two categories, Yes and No – a bit like playing Guess Who. At the end we played the game with our partner, who chose an … Continue reading
Making Digital Music @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders experimented with Musiclab to make music. There are 14 different activities to try and they especially liked Kandinsky where you draw shapes on the screen and those shapes make different musical sounds. They also liked Song Maker where you could click on the spaces for musical notes and also add … Continue reading
Adding Clipart @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to add clipart to their board game for that final professional look! It was a little more tricky than before but they managed it! “It was a little bit difficult trying to find where the clipart was but once we found it it was really easy to add … Continue reading
Adding Text @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders have learnt how to shape and add text to their board games. As we are making games to remind Year 1 children how to stay safe when using a computer or device that can access the internet, we included safety rules. If you remembered to use the rules you advanced … Continue reading
Colouring our Board Game @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders used their knowledge to colour their board games, adding colour blocks to the track, a jazzy background and text at the start and finish plus the title. “I’ve never had to add writing into a box before, it’s not that difficult and you can pick it up and move it … Continue reading
Our Board Game Outline @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders have learnt how to transfer their paper board games to the computer. Using our previous knowledge working with the snap to grid feature in Textease they copied their game to the computer. “It was quite easy as we used the same dots on the paper as on the screen so … Continue reading
Our Job Role @RRIS
Here is our new job role for 2023-24 – we can’t wait to support everyone.
Drawing our board game @RRIS
This week the digital leaders learnt how to draw out their board game plans on to paper, ready to transfer their design to the computer next week. The tracks are going to be in a 1,2,3 pattern so that there will be spaces to put in words to send people backwards and forward spaces if … Continue reading
Welcome to a New Year!
We are all so excited to start the new year and our very first digital leader meeting! This half term we are designing and making board games to share with the year 1 children, reminding them about how to keep safe when using the computer. To do this we are going to use Textease to … Continue reading
Safer Internet Day @RRIS
As part of our week long focus around internet safety, the Year 2 children met with all the Year 1 children to play their previously made board games. Everyone really enjoyed themselves and it was a really good way to remind everyone of rules to help keep yourself safe when online. “Their games are really … Continue reading