Before You Continue With Your Stories...

Have a go at this quiz...

Click here

Good luck!

Your Christmas Mystery

Keep going with your Christmas mysteries.

Remember to try to include the following:

• transitions from slide to slide that make the user feel like they are moving (or use the curtain transition to reveal things)
• animations when you click on things
• good background pictures to make your slides look like the rooms they describe

Don't forget to set your slideshow up to 'View at a kiosk' - that way, you can't click on the background and move the presentation on.

You really need to think about your story's plot now... what is actually happening in the story?

Download this story to see what a poor one looks like! You can do better!!

Musical App

Good morning all!

As you can see, I'm not in school today! Which means you have a perfect opportunity to show me what you can do - independently!

Your task is to complete your musical app.

Take time to add pictures of musical instruments to your app (rather than just basic shapes) and try to download some sounds of your own (remember, they need to be .wav sounds).

Don't forget to add mouse-click and/or mouseover actions.

Look at the pictures below for a guide on how your app could look.

Good luck. I'll be checking your apps when I return.

Mr L

Can You Make A Musical Instrument App in PowerPoint?

So, today we are going to link our Computing with Music.

Your challenge is to use PowerPoint to create an interactive musical instrument app that you could use to add music to your composition.

You can do this by adding shapes to a slide and then adding actions for when you click on them or hover your mouse over them.

Have a look at the slides below for help if you get stuck.

Storing Information

IT Suite Closed...

So, the IT suite is being upgraded! A perfect time for you to catch a few videos that I'd like you to see...

Inside the Computer



What Happens Inside the Computer



Why You Should Code


Now, choose one of the themes from the video and create an A4 poster to share the thinking!

Rights Respecting ICT!

Hello All

So, we had some visitors last week who wanted to know all about what we do as a school with regard to the United Nations Charter for the Rights of the Child.

Your job today is to continue to use your ICT skills to create something that would demonstrate this.

You could choose:

• Powerpoint
• A piece of writing in Word
• An animation in Scratch
• Design a web-page
• A piece of computer art
• Anything else you can think of!

Make sure your punctuation and grammar is used properly and that the piece of work is something to be proud of.

Check the RRS Blog out - to see examples of what we've done.

When you've done that - can you please maker sure that your How the Internet Works presentation is finished and produced nicely.

Mr L

Assessment Task!

Afternoon all.

This afternoon you have an assessment task. You have this week and the first Monday back to complete your task.

I want you to create a Powerpoint presentation explaining how the Internet works and how information is moved around it. You will need to remember all the work on 'packets' and 'hops' that we've been working on over the past few weeks.

All the information you need will either be in your head or in links contained in your blog and beyond. Don't forget the video we looked at.

I expect everyone to be able to create and save their presentation in their MyDocuments folder - its name should be Internet.

Some of you will have many pages in your presentation. Some of you will have 'buttons' or 'hyperlinks' to help your reader move around your presentation.

Here are some suggestions for you:

1) Have a front cover page that looks appealing
2) Have a contents page where you can click to take you to other pages
3) Have a page that explains what your presentation is about
3) Use pictures and writing to make your presentation useful
4) Research more than you already know
5) Remember, you only have 2 sessions to get this done

Collecting your information together...

Just a quick bit of computer 'housekeeping' for you to do for me...

I want you to do a few things.

1) Rename your page name to index.html
2) I want you to create a folder that has your first name and initial of your surname as the name. So, I would have a folder called paull
3) Copy all of your files that are linked to your page into your new folder (so, you should have your index.html file and any other picture files in the folder)

Thank you!

A Title for Your Autobiography Page

Hello All

So - you're getting there with the coding for your page. Great.

Wouldn't it be good if you had a cool graphical title or logo at the top?

Well, this week that's the challenge you have: create the logo or title and them embed the picture at the top of your page.

Here are some suggestions for how to do it followed by the success criteria for embedding the picture in your page.


You'll need two or three bits of software to make the picture/logo:

1) Microsoft Powerpoint (Start->All Programs->Microsoft Office 2013)
2) Snipping tool (Start->All Programs->Accessories)



Use Powerpoint to create the image you want (remember how to import pictures, use word art etc?)

Then use the Snipping Tool to cut out the bit you want as the title/logo and save it in the same folder as your webpage. Call it logo.png

This might be the first time you've used the Snipping Tool - see if you can figure out how it works. Or click here for guidance.

Then, go to your web page (in Notepad remember) and then straight after your <body> tag write:

<img src="logo.png">

Remember: when you save your snip, call it logo.png and put it in the same folder as you biography file!!

Good luck and be creative.

More Debugging

Go to the usual folder on P-Drive and copy the file new.html into your documents.

It's not working properly. Can you fix it?

It's also a RUBBISH page!! Can you make it look better?

When you're done... keep working on your autobiography page.

Debugging!

Before you continue with your autobiography... you have some debugging to do.

Go to Pupil Resources on the P-Drive and copy the file called web_page_gone_wrong.html to your MyDocuments folder.

Double click on it... it looks horrible! Where are the headings? Where is the picture?

Use your debugging skills to make it look OK again!

Designing Websites 3

So, the coding is going OK!

Do you know what you are aiming for? What will your webpage actually look like?

If you're struggling to answer that question then why not use your existing skills to help you?

Why not use Word or Powerpoint to design what your webpage might look like?

Designing Websites 2

OK. So, we've learned about what makes a basic webpage.

The next thing to learn is how to organise our information better.

Your next challenge is to create a webpage that's all about you. It will include pictures and video if we can find it!

If you get stuck, then use the links below to help you remember how to set up a webpage. Remember the 'tags'...

1) Start with a blank webpage...

2) Improve your headings...

3) Use paragraphs...

4) Try changing the style of the webpage...

5) Try formatting your text...

6) Try putting in links to other webpages...

7) Try putting in pictures...

8) Try using 'tables' to organise your page...

Designing Websites

OK everyone!

A new challenge this week. We are going to be learning to use a new code: HTML.

HTML stands for Hyper Text Mark-Up Language. It's the language that basic web pages are created with.

If you click on this link - you can have a look at the presentation I showed you today.

If you follow the tab at the top of the page called HTML - you will find lots of information about HTML.

If you go to Khan Academy - there is a course there for you to follow too.

Remember: start off small and then grow your ideas. Learn how it works and then begin to add to your skills.

Interactive Story Task

Today is the day that this needs to be finished.

Make sure your story is complete. Remember: I'm interested in you being able to make the story interactive as opposed to you writing a brilliant story.

Make sure the piece of work looks good too.

Assessment Task - Interactive Stories

Well, hello!

Happy New Year to you all!

To celebrate the new year... I have an assessment task for you.

I want you to use Powerpoint to create an interactive story - a story that the reader can decide what happens in the story they are reading. This will be achieved by giving the reader choices.

The story and its structure will need planning. you can use the computers for this or your rough books - I don't mind.

You will have 3 computer sessions to complete the task.