Welcome to the start page for year 5 students learning Digital Technologies at St. Andrews Christian College. All continuous learning resources will be published here and content may change regularly. If your child is in a different year level you should find appropriate links on this page. 

My name is Gary Ong and I own and control this website which I’ve been using to help students make digital creations during class. Due to health and safety restrictions this website will now be the primary resource for students to continue their learning in Digital Technologies.

Kind regards

-Mr. Ong

Minecraft Builder Code

Minecraft Builder Code

This post will examine a code library that you can import, modify and run to quickly build complex structures in Minecraft E:E. This library may change over time as more features are added. Please be careful when making modifications as there is quite a bit of code...

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Keyboard Skills with Typing Club

Keyboard Skills with Typing Club

Click this button to open Typing Club in a new tab Login before you start any exercises - this will make sure your stats are updated If this is your first time using typing club, you need to 'sign up' first, otherwise you can login. Always choose to sign up with...

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Creating with the Chrome Music Lab

Creating with the Chrome Music Lab

The Chrome Music Lab contains many different apps you can experiment with - click the image above to navigate to the website You do not need to login to start creating, but this also means that your creations are not automatically saved. You will need to export your...

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Canva

Canva

Introduction Canva is a powerful multimedia creation tool that has similar features to PosterMyWall. It was created by an Australian company and has generously been made available for free to schools. It is available as a website tool or as an app for iPads. Creating...

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Using NPCs in M:EE

Using NPCs in M:EE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nITvIGUClI Short video intro into using NPCs Introduction Using non-player characters (NPCs) in Minecraft is a good way of adding your own content into a world that you are creating for others. They can interact with players in several...

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Minecraft Structure Block

Minecraft Structure Block

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKIfw1fjSlY You can find the structure block in the inventory (creative mode) or use the /give command (must be op) Introduction The structure block is currently limited to exporting 3D models which can be used in apps like PowerPoint,...

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Importing Code into Minecraft

Importing Code into Minecraft

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 - Click the Import URL option Step 4...

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Building Better Walls in Minecraft

Building Better Walls in Minecraft

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, creative, fun, strange...

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Building Walls in Minecraft

Building Walls in Minecraft

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...

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Keyboarding

Keyboarding

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...

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