Tagged With: Textease
Online Safety Board Game @RRIS
This half term the Digital Leaders were really pleased to be making a board game using the programme Textease, for the Year 1 children to play. In the first session they designed their board game on paper, mapping out their pathway and selecting which spaces were going to have the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ rule spaces. … Continue reading
Finishing Christmas Cards @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to search for and add the Christmas Pixabay images they saved in their files. There were a few new steps to learn to navigate to their pictures within Textease, but supporting each other to remember the steps they all completed the task and were really pleased how they … Continue reading
Text for Christmas Cards @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders learnt how to use some additional features in Textease to create the text for the inside of their Christmas cards. All the children are confident with creating text using Textease so we learnt how to adjust our paper so that it was in landscape view and was smaller so that … 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
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
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