by admin | Mar 16, 2021 | Coding, Teacher, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Step 1 – Press ‘C’ to enter the code builder Then select the first option which should say Microsoft MakeCode. To activate the code builder on iPads click the button that looks like an agent. Step 2 – Click the Import button Step 3 –... by admin | Mar 9, 2021 | Coding, Teacher, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4
This term we have been utilising Minecraft Education Edition to practice our coding skills and also our collaboration skills. When you join a Minecraft world with your classmates and are trying to build 3D structures problems are bound to occur. How we deal with those... by admin | Mar 9, 2021 | Coding, Teacher, Year 5, Year 6
This week we are going to build more complex walls in Minecraft but you don’t have to do as much coding since I’ve done most of it for you. However, I want you to experiment with the code I’m giving you. Change it to make the most interesting,... by admin | Mar 2, 2021 | Coding, Teacher, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
This weeks Digital Technologies lesson is to use code to give your agent wall building skills. This is quite different from digging tunnels as that only required destroying blocks. Now we have to place blocks to create 3D structures. Students will need to arrange... by admin | Oct 8, 2020 | Multimedia, Teacher, Year 4
We will be using Flipgrid for Digital Technologies as a way of having an ongoing discussion about school projects. It’s a simple concept: Teachers create a topic – with questions, images, links etcStudents login to the website or the iPad app using the... by admin | Oct 7, 2020 | Prep, Teacher, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Learning to touch type on a standard QWERTY keyboard is still an important skill, but things have changed recently with on screen keyboards, autocorrect, speech recognition technology and mobile devices. Whilst it has commonly been taught in IT or digital technology... by admin | Sep 16, 2020 | Multimedia, Teacher, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Building 3D structures in Minecraft is a fun activity that many students enjoy. This lesson focuses on the unique challenges students face when re-creating a real world structure in Minecraft. This will involve a lot of practical mathematics, creativity and a touch of... by admin | Sep 14, 2020 | Coding, Multimedia, Teacher, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
There are many things to love about Scratch. The online Scratch community is definitely one of them. All shared projects in Scratch are public and available to everyone to use and examine how it was built. Furthermore, all shared projects can be ‘remixed’... by admin | Sep 10, 2020 | Coding, Prep, Teacher
Most of my students are very familiar with code.org and have used it extensively to learn coding concepts in class. This introduction is for parents to be able to help students login and navigate around the website to complete puzzles. Each class has been setup in... by admin | Sep 9, 2020 | Multimedia, Teacher, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4
TinkerCAD is a simplified version of AutoCAD which is the commercial software that a lot of professional designers use. It’s free to use for anyone and has a web based interface and also an app that works well in both Safari and Chrome. It’s not quite as...