Tagged With: Esafety
Drawing with a Grid @RRIS
To start off the new school year the new Digital Leaders learnt how to use the grid function in Textease to draw Minecraft style pictures but drawing outline shapes with squares or triangles and filling them in. This is in preparation for their board game design they will be doing next week. “It is really … Continue reading
Trialling Coding Websites @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders tried out some coding websites. First of all we looked at the free j2e turtle tool and programmed each of the different sprites on the 7 different template backgrounds. There were some surprises when you landed in certain squares. Next we explored the Beebot Emulator and were surprised how much … Continue reading
Desiging Avatars @RRIS
This week the digital leaders got to grips with designing their own avatar. We looked at 3 different websites, Doppelme, Photo Share and Marvel Avatar Creator. Each of the websites had it’s own challenges, with some aspects being more difficult than others. The digital leaders are really looking forward to sharing this with their class … Continue reading
Pupil Technology Survey @RRIS
It is really important to know how to keep yourself safe when using a computer or tablet and so we created a survey for all the year 2 pupils to take to find out their habits when they weren’t at school. This will help us support families in keeping everyone safe, including how to put … Continue reading
Completing our Board Games @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders and Helpers have been working towards finishing off their board games. They have coloured the background and pathway, added text to selected squares, added clipart and a title – phew! We are really looking forward to getting them all printed out and playing them with all the year 1 children.
Safer Internet Day 2020 @RRIS
For Safer Internet Day 2020 we have looked at some amazing resources that remind us how to keep ourselves safe when using the computer, tablet or in fact anything that connect to the internet! We watched videos featuring Red and Murphy, had a special assembly and then used the Online Safety resources from Espresso, Discovery … Continue reading
Online Safety Board Games @RRIS
Fresh from the Christmas break the Digital Leaders and Helpers were raring to go on the latest project of designing and making board games to remind the Yr 1 children about how to keep themselves safe on the computer or tablet (in fact with anyone they didn’t know well!) In the first session they drew … Continue reading
Tree Octopus Research @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders and Helpers were doing a piece of research for year 1! The year 1 classes had heard all about a tree octopus and the website was a little bit too complicated for them, so they asked year 2 to help out. ” We looked at a website all about tree … Continue reading
Teaching Avatars @RRIS
For the first time we welcomed Helpers to our meeting to show them how we created our avatars. We will be teaching this to our classes this week. “We have been practising lego style avatars and making our own lego people. We are making them because if children need our help doing them we need … Continue reading
Designing our Avatars @RRIS
After spending the last few weeks setting the group up, today was our first lesson that we will go on to teach to our classes. We all know how important it is to keep ourselves safe when using the computer and being online, so we learned how to create our own avatar, which we will … Continue reading