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Here is a video playlist of our week at Ardmay!
Tag Archives: dlw16
Coding using Scratch
Today I made a scratch coding interaction between two sprites that I made and the sprites were Knuckles and Shadow from Sonic. I think this will help me in the future if I wanted to code a game and have a career in that sort of thing. The skills I was using were planning and organising because I had to plan what I was going to do with my interaction. I had to think creatively and make an interesting script.
What I found difficult was making the sprites and coding them to do what I wanted them to do. The way of how I overcame the difficulties was by keep on trying and just keep on looking carefully and what code I had used and then you will eventually get it right. I knew I was successful by testing to see if it works and by finishing the sprites but I was there for a bit trying to see if it would work! I really like my code and I am going to build on it some more.
Photoblitz
P7’s homework his week was to take part in Digital Learning Week’s Photoblitz task. Here are some photos that have been tweeted to me! Well done everyone!
My Pixel Art
As part of the Digital Learning Week tasks, I created a pixel art of a digital leaders logo. It included a laptop saying WPS Digital Leaders. I used Scratch to create it then used a screenshot and saved it as an image. It took me a while to make it and I did it during school. It was a challenge making the keyboard!
Here is my logo!
Ardmay Sway!
Here is a Sway about our trip to Ardmay last week created by Jamie and Zander in P7.
Digital Storytelling
This morning we worked with Miss Holland and Ros Lee. We had to add the next part of the story – The Street of Shadows. We all worked in trios and opened the Word Online document. Each group came up with a different story – it was very interesting. To make our stories effective we used our VCOP pyramids to help use.
We then shared all the documents with Miss Holland and Ros. To make it fair Ros chose the winning story.
Here it is – what do you think?
The Street of Shadows
The orange light cast by the streetlamp, gave the man an eerie look as he stepped out of his car, She stood, hidden in the shadow of the doorway, watching the man as he dialed a number on his mobile phone. This had happened for a week now, but who was he phoning and why did he come to this building at the same time each night?
The rain dripped slowly down her fingertips onto the ground, she heard the man finish his phone call, why hadn’t she been listening? Suddenly the streetlamps flickered, and the man was speeding up the street in his black shiny Audi, which was soon out of sight. She stood up from her uncomfortable crouching position, She thought of going back to the rooftop base and getting paid.
A creaking noise sounded from behind her, the door was ajar, the man was standing there, his hooded face hidden in darkness,
“Get off my doorstep, right now.” he muttered, the lights flickered again, the door slammed shut, and he was gone…
Digital Learning Week
#dlw16 Digital Learning Week Homework
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Thought I’d assign some homework for schools in Digital Learning Week
This principally aimed at senior phase.
In no particular order.
1. How good is your school wifi and are you ready for learners to bring their own devices ?
2. Have you got a clear policy that encourages learners and teachers to use their own devices in class and around the school ?
3. Have you worked out how to close the digital divide – can you supply learners, who don’t have access to a device that can reliably at least browse the internet with a suitable device – ideally for school time and to take home ? hint – Kindle Fires are good value at moment.
4. How confident are your teachers in making the best use of GLOW – blogging , sharing , publishing their learning and teaching resources, working collaboratively with learners to create content with teacher and learners in other schools across Scotland and internationally ?
5. Have you worked out a policy or mechanism for making the best use of massive open on-line courses for staff and for pupil development ?
6. How much learning content created under Creative Commons Licences do your teachers and pupils produce each year and what platforms are you publishing this on ?
7. How good is your learning community at defining and describing your local area – do you use Google and other maps and suitable review sites as opportunities for teachers and learners to produce content.
8. Have you trained any Wikipedians – what are the Wikipedia entries like for your school and for the region that surrounds your school ? How can you improve these ?
9. Digital literacy – have you a mechanism for measuring this across your learning community and a means of developing this for teachers and learners on an ongoing basis ?
10. Do you use technology to give learners an opportunity to showcase their work – and do you use it to cut down on meetings and use it for useful things like internal verification, across your school , across the local authority , nationally ?
11. How many on-line courses are your learners using as a supplement to or as an addition to normal classes and are you timetabling these to increase the choice available to senior phase learners and to make non-viable subject choices viable in your school ?
12. E-Books – have you worked out that many of the classic texts are now freely available as they are out of copyright and have you a strategy for making sure teachers and learners make the most of resources like this ?
13. Do most subject teachers have their own YouTube channel with a stream of helpful revision clips from a range of sources to support learners and/or what social platforms are they doing this on ?
14. Have you opened up a lot of your on-line learning to help and support parents – who would benefit from access to this learning ?
15. How many Microsoft Innovator Teachers , Google Certified , Apple or Intel or other trained teachers do you have and do you value your digital leaders ?
16. Do you know what an open badge is and have you worked out ways for your teachers and learners to build some open badges and award these ?
17. Has your school organised or supported a teachmeet ? Do you encourage teachers to contribute to #Pedagoo – do you regularly talk about how digital learning is changing the face of learning – talking about the pedagogy and the on-line resources freely available ?
18. If you think digital learning is still about – composing and sending emails , opening , creating and saving a document and using presentation software , a data projector or an electronic whiteboard and that phones are a needless distraction in school. Then please ignore 1-17
Our Partnership With Litchenza Primary in Malawi!
To become Global Citizens and work towards achieving our Rights Respecting School Level 2 award, we have recently linked with a school in Malawi. We have partnered with Litchenza Primary School and we have recently sent them a package called ‘To Litchenza from Whinhill’. In the package we had things like; letters, postcards, banners and photographs to share what life in like in Scotland. In Malawi we learned that they speak Chichewa and we have learned some in class. Moni (hello) Muli Bwanji? (how are you?) Zikomo (thank you) We have lots of fun when we learn about Malawi and Africa! We have learned about children’s rights and that sometimes children don’t always get their rights because of different reasons but they should! Really important rights are; the right to education, the right to shelter and the right to a name, the right to clean water, the right to nutritious food and the right to have rights. We have learned that we have some differences between Scotland and Africa but we also have a lot of things that are the same! It has been good because we are learning about other cultures and comparing them to our own.
We are linked with Malawi because we want to learn more about what school is like for them and share what school is like for us. We have lots of things to share with our school in Malawi. When we sent the package we sent them some of our school jumpers and ties so they can see our school uniform. Litchenza Primary School sent us a package back and we were so excited! In that package there was a handmade crochet shall, some paintings, photographs and a picture of pupils holding a certificate saying Whinhill partnership with Litchenza. The pupils in the picture were wearing the Whinhill jumper we sent them! So far it has been really fun talking to Litchenza and sending them pictures of us doing our learning and getting replies to our letters.
