ICT Round up from Claire Griffiths

 

Claire Griffiths is a Computing/ICT teacher who has been working with Kinloss Primary and Craigellachie Primary for their Digital Learning Weeks and beyond in 2017, see the links below for more details!

https://kinlossprimary.wordpress.com/digital-learning-week-2017/

https://craigellachieprimary.wordpress.com/learning-and-teaching/digital-learning-week-may-2017/

Though the above work is from Digital learning week originally it has been updated since then.

An example from Kinloss Primary this term:
https://kinlossprimary.wordpress.com/learning-and-teaching/p6c/

A series of activities for the P3-7 classes generally includes:

  • Finding out about devices which have a computer in them.
  • Drawing our own linear (e.g. getting dressed for school) and branching algorithms (e.g. shall we go to the cinema? – which has lots of choices)
  • Talking about Internet Safety and looking at the Thinkuknow website.We watched an interesting article on CBBC Newsround about the online gaming websites and how to safe safe.
  • Designing our own Scratch sprites based on a Halloween theme.
  • Learning how to type faster and where all the keys are on the keyboard
  • Learning how to use the Scratch programming tool to create a simple cat and mouse game. In coding we learnt about forever loops, changing costumes and event handler e.g. when clicked
  • Learning about file types including animated gifs (which often dance or move like a very short cartoon)

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