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 | 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 | Aug 20, 2020 | Coding, Multimedia, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
I really like the PosterMyWall.com website as a simple but powerful graphical editing tool. If we combine it with Scratch as an animating tool there are lots of things we can do. In this post I will describe several challenges for students to try. Challenge 1 –... by admin | Jul 31, 2020 | Coding, Prep, Teacher
I’ve heard that some parents are finding Scratch Junior a little daunting. So I thought I would put together a few different resources to help you get started. This is a great introduction video to Scratch Junior The Scratch Junior website has lots of good... by admin | Jul 29, 2020 | Coding, Multimedia, Teacher, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
There are 3 main ways of adding audio (music or sound effects) to your Scratch project: Use one of the Scratch sounds (easy)Use the microphone on your device to record a sound in Scratch (medium)Convert a video or audio file into an MP3 that you can import into...