Tagged With: Esafety
Fake Website Design @RRIS
After finding out last week that the Amazing Fish and Tree Octopus weren’t in fact true and that anyone can make up facts for people to believe, the Year 2 children set about creating their own fake website content as a lesson for next years Year 2 children. Basing their story around recent dinosaur discovery … Continue reading
Amazing Fish Research @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders helped the year 1 children with some valuable research all about the fish that was found living in a sandpit in America! Year 1 had come up with a set of questions that needed researching and the year 2 children set to work. “I can’t believe that a fish lived … Continue reading
Creating Avatars @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to create avatars to represent themselves safely when online. We had a choice of different websites to use and then saved our avatar to our files. Realistic Cartoon Person: http://doppelme.com/ Face: http://photos-share.com/ Marvel: https://www.marvelhq.com/create-your-own-super-hero “That was really easy to do and it much more sensible than using a … Continue reading
Creating Posters @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders created posters in Textease using the images they had downloaded and saved from Pixabay. When we made our Esafety board games everyone was very good at being able to retrieve and open their saved files so this week was a step further by importing their saved images into their work … Continue reading
Using Pixabay @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders have been learning the importance of not taking or copying images and text from the internet without permission from the owner of the work. We used Pixabay to search for free images (ensuring that Safesearch was enabled so the images were child friendly) and saved those images to our files … Continue reading
Finishing our game @RRIS
After many weeks we are now ready to finish our games! This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to add their game title and some clipart to make the game more appealing to the younger children. The clipart needed to be resized to fit the game squares which everyone found a bit tricky at first, … Continue reading
Adding Text @RRIS
We are nearly there! The board games are looking amazing but we still need to add the hazard spaces! This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to add text to their board games and how to use the special tool to push text underneath so that it would fit neatly into their spaces of their … Continue reading
Colouring our board game @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders coloured their board games by using the fill tool in Textease. They used a repeating pattern for the main spaces with contrasting Start and Finish spaces. At the end they filled the background with a fancy fill. They look amazing so far and everyone has really enjoyed it and can’t … Continue reading
Drawing our Game Board @RRIS
Following on from their paper board game designs the Digital Leaders transferred their board games on to Textease, using the easy snap to grid function. They learnt how to do this easily and get rid of any mistakes they made. “I am looking forward to showing the class how easy it is to copy the … Continue reading
Designing an Esafety Board Game @RRIS
This half term the Year 2 children are designing and making a board game for Year 1 children to remind them about Esafety rules and how to keep themselves safe when using a computer. This week the Digital Leaders used a paper grid, like the one they used last week in Textease, to design their … Continue reading