Unit 4 HTML 5

Year 7 Unit 4 How a Computer Works

Year 9 Unit 3 Algorithms and Google

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Project Rubric can be found here

To get above a Level 5 you need to make sure that your Podcast is;

1. Greater than 1 minute
2. Has music and other sound effects
3. Is informative
4. Is of good sound quality
5. Has been uploaded to Audioboo
6. Is on your blog
7. An evaluation has been written

Y7 Unit 3 Staying Safe Online

(Y9) Photoshop Activity

Y8 Unit 2 Magazine Cover Design

You can re-submit your work at any time if you would like your work to be re-graded.

Send emails to mwaldron@britishschoolquito.edu.ec

Y9 Unit 2 Graphic Design: Album Covers

Tutorial 1 is here

Tutorial 2 is here

Y7 Cloud Computing

Y8 How the Internet Works

Blogging in KS3

Year 9 Unit 1: Your Digital World

Year 6 Transition Day: Class Blog Discovery

This is our class blog. The class blog allows for communication between teacher and students, but it also allow communication between students. Along with Twitter, this a forum where you can express your thoughts, feelings, and ideas about our technology class. Using the blog often and participating in discussion will create a digital learning community that can benefit us all in LOTS of ways. 

Your task is to browse this website. Click on links to other sights, watch videos, read about assignments, browse the photo feed and twitter feed, and view other students' contributions and websites. After browsing the site, please answer the following questions about what you have found.

1. Tell one thing you liked about the site.
2. Tell one thing that could be improved, or tell about something you would like to see on the site
3. List two things we will be leaning this year
4. What supplies will you need for every class?
5. What should happen in the first 5 minutes of every class

Answer on Edmodo on the Year 6 Wall. Thanks

Year 8 Project: Build a Game or Interactive Story using Scratch

You will apply skills you have been learning to create an interactive story, animation, simulation or a game in Scratch. You objective will be to show your mastery of the more advanced programming concepts (variables, broadcast or operators).

Either:

Choose from the options below

Simple drawing effects here. I recommend Build Etch-Sketch

Intermediate Maths: Choose from these activities here. I recommend Pong

Intermediate Music and Animation: Choose from these activities here. I recommend Rock Band

Advanced Simulation: Choose from these acivities here. I recommend Spider Web Design

Or

You can, instead, work on an original game or even a simulation.  

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You will also post your story/game to the scratch website (http://scratch.mit.edu) together with a description in the Project Notes Section describing your game.

Learn how to publish the game to your blog here

Project rubric is here

Project review guide here

Year 7: Create a Podcast or Public Service Announcement. (Working with Sound)

In groups you will produce an MP3 recording of.... 

A Public Service Announcement

- You will produce a plan which clearly states the audience and purpose of your recording

- You will create a script showing all dialogue

- You will create a running order showing all of the timings.

Finally, you will produce the final recording, using editing software such as Audacity
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If you are looking for sound clips and music files please check out the free websites SoundBible and Freeplay respectively. There are many others

Add your MP3 to your blog using Podcast Machine

Project Rubric here

Project Review Sheet is here

Year 9 Project: Building an Ap

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Find icons for your app here

Project Rubric here

Project Review sheet is here

Writing a Project Review. Visual Programming in Kodu

Kodu REVIEW.pptx

Kodu: Project Deadlines

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Important Documents

Kodu Peer Testing Sheet: Ask someone to test and review your game. This sheet should be filled out with both of your names and posted to your blog when completed. 

Project 3 Final Quiz

The Design Process (Design Cycle)

When a designer is given a problem to solve, they often break down the problem into a number of smaller more manageable activities.This is usually easier than trying to solve the whole problem at once

. These activities lead to what is often called the 'design process'. The design process begins with a 'design brief'. This is a brief summary of the problem you are trying to solve and in a few words or sentences explains what you have been asked to do.

Activity 1 The Design Cycle

Activity 2 Complete the blanks

Year 7: Visual Computer Programming Project

Quiz

Feedback

Year 8 + 9: Visual Computer Programming Project (Advanced)

Cloud Computing and Google Docs

Resources
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Create a contents page in Word. Click here

Create headers and footer in Word. Click here

Starting header and footer from Page 3. Click here

FlipSnack. Making a Fash Flip book. Click here

Writing a Formal Project Review in Microsoft Word

Unit 2. Presenting Information to suit different purposes 

Project Review 

Where you satisfied with your final products? Were they successful? Why/Why not?

Give examples of how you adapted (changed) your designs to suit the correct audience and purpose? What new skills/ideas did you learn in the project? What improvements would you make to your work if you had time? You can talk about all or choose one of your products in detail!

What would you do differently if you did the project again?

Do you have any alternative ideas that would have made the products you made more successful?

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400 Words written in Microsoft Word. Embed to blog using Scribd

Email Survey

Getting Started on your Review

Hello Everyone.

Happy New Year. I hope you all had a nice Christmas!

Before the holiday we were working on a unit called Presenting information to suit different purposes. In this unit you created several different documents. You made

1. An Info-graphic
2. A Poster
3. A User Guide

You learnt many new skills and used many different pieces of software to create them. This week you will be writing a project review in Microsoft Word describing what you learnt, what you think went well and how you can improve.

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Today, in preparation, I would like you to write notes on a new blog post answering the following questions.

1. What is meant by the 'audience'

2. How can audience affect the way something is designed.

3. Can you give two examples of something you designed, who the audience was, and how made sure it was suitable for the correct audience. What techniques did you use?

4. What is meant by 'purpose'.

5. What is meant by the informing someone and persuading someone?

6. Your Poster for the School Play was intended to be Persuasive because you were trying to attract people to buy a ticket. What techniques did you use to make your poster persuasive?

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Use the ICT Dictionary to help you and look back at the Wikispace to see the lessons we completed together. This presentation we looked at may be especially useful.

Finish for Homework

How should I present my writing?

I have made this blog post for those of you who are not sure how to present assignments properly. Yes, presentation is important especially if it is for a piece of writing that you want to be graded by your teacher. Remember, normal blog posts are more informal and so you don´t need to worry about the presentation of these as much..

Check out this template below

Word Processing Presentation