Tagged With: infant DLs
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
Designing Christmas Cards @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to design the inside of our Christmas cards. We used Textease so that we could easily combine Christmas clipart and text together. If you did not want to use the clipart within Textease you could download and save images from Pixabay and import those in to your work. … 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
Our Badges Have Arrived @RRIS
We were so pleased that our brand new logo badges have arrived and we think they look brilliant! Our worthy logo winner was the first to receive theirs!
Making Animations @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to use the j2e animate website to create their own mini animation. First they chose a background then added a character from one of the categories – some people were excited to find they could choose Christmas! They then clicked on the second slide and moved their character … Continue reading
Making a Branching Database @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to create a branching database using j2e branch. They chose 6 animals and asked questions to put the animals in a yes/no category. When they had finished they tested their database – could the computer guess the animal they were thinking of? Everyone realised how important it was … Continue reading
Making Digital Music with Incredibox @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to make digital music with the online software Incredibox. Lots of the websites that we use at school to support our Computing learning are stored together in our Learning Links webpage so first we learnt how to get to this page – this was the part that everyone … 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