Arctic Breakout App Prototype

For this Arctic Breakout app prototype, we have created a Keynote file and set it to links only. To remind yourself the steps involved have a look at this activity.

We then created tasks based on previous activity such as Pixel Art, Green Screen iMovie, and Podcasting. It is a good to have tasks like this that combine various digital literacy activities and contextualise them in such a way as to show their true ability to be used across a wide range of curricular areas. 

Your task: Offer pupils the opportunity to create an app prototype like this that makes use of their various digital literacy skills. 

We have the Keynote template file available for download. Use the button below to download it to your device.  There is an alternative Scratch project for you to edit below.

Download Keynote Template

Download PowerPoint Template

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Try it for yourself and share your creations with us on social media

Alternative Build!

You can flex your coding skills by exploring our Arctic Escape Scratch Project.   This project is a quiz that uses two lists to store the questions and answers.  

A short demo is below, along with a link to the project for you.to edit.  Let us know how you get on!

Things for you to try…

• Explore the script of the bear sprite and try to add your own questions and answers
• When one of the A B C or D sprites is clicked, can you get it to change costume so that the purple button changes colour for 1 second before returning to the original costume
• Add a sound to each of the A B C and D button presses
• Animate the GAME OVER and YOU WIN costumes – ensure they return to the same position at the start (clue… “When I receive Reset”)

Link to Scratch Project

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Animation to enhance storytelling

We will explore how to enhance your storytelling/literacy skills by building a scene and adding some animation to bring it to life. We will aim to make something like this:

In order to make this style of video, there are a few things we should consider.

1. What story or poem do we want our pupils to recite?
2. Where will they find/download content? There are websites such as Noun Project and Pixabay
3. What apps will be useful? For this example we used Voice Memos to record our reciting of the poem, and Keynote to build the scene and animation. 
4. Once the animation/scene is created – what can pupils do to enhance it further? To add in more of a creative flair? Creativity never stops – it evolves. 

For more ideas on ways in which you can introduce creativity into your learning and teaching practice, check out the Everyone Can Create guides from Apple Education. 

Green Screen Scanner

One of the most powerful features of having a device in your class, is the ability to use the camera to capture content. On iPad this can open a world of possibilities when you combine it with an app like iMovie. This is a free app that comes on most deployments in Local Authorities. There are options such as WeVideo and others on Chromebook/Windows laptops and we advise you to speak to your LA digital lead about options.

The tutorial video below is broken into 3 parts. Recording, editing and a Keynote option for additional Creativity.

We have the Keynote template file available for download. Use the button below to download it to your device.

Download Keynote Template

Download PowerPoint Template

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Follow the tutorial above to try it for yourself and share your creations with us on social media

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Create and stage festive characters with expressive Memoji heads to tell a story using AR.

For this activity it is advisable that you have an iPad, Keynote, and ARMakr

Before you try the main activity you may wish to watch this tutorial on creating a custom Memoji character:

Download this Keynote project to help you get started.

You can customise your character in a number of ways. Either draw the character’s body
using Apple Pencil, stylus, or your finger. Alternatively you can find pictures for free from sites such as pixabay.com. If you are using other apps such as PowerPoint or Slides it is important to ensure that your background is set as transparent. Export as images and save to your photos app.

In AR Makr, tap New Scene, tap Start, then follow the on-screen instructions to place the scene. To Make a new AR object. Tap New, tap the folder icon and then select the image of your character/objects. Tap the tick to approve the image, and add the object to your AR library.
To add the object to the scene, tap it on the left side of the screen. Pinch and drag to resize as needed. Move iPad to where you want the object, then tap Place.

Follow the tutorial below to try it for yourself and share your creations with us on social media @digilearnscot