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Want to use Scratch programming in your lessons? Check out this great reference guide to using Scratch 1.4 and get started using Scratch to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art and share your creations on the web. Use this handy guide to learn how to program with Scratch and let us [...]
Contributed by: Julia.
Watch this walkthrough demo for beginners which shows you how to use Google SketchUp software to make 3D models and pictures so you can then use it with pupils in your lessons. SketchUp is covered in Switched on ICT Unit 5.2 ‘We are architects’. Use this software to get your pupils making all sorts of [...]
Contributed by: Julia.
Watch this walkthrough demo for beginners which takes you through Scratch programming software and shows you how to use it to make animations so you can use it with pupils in your lessons. Scratch is covered in Switched on ICT Unit 2.5 ‘We are astronauts’, Unit 3.3 ‘We are animators’, Unit 4.5 ‘We are artists’, Unit [...]
Contributed by: Julia.
Are you looking for a free software application to support the ‘We are comic writers’ unit within Switched On ICT? Well, why not try Cartoon Story Maker from the Victoria State Government in Australia… Make 2D screen based cartoon stories to illustrate conversations and dialogues. Stories can include an unlimited number of frames and are [...]
Contributed by: davesmithict.
Great to meet together with 5 Havering schools – Gidea Park, Mawney, Parsonage Farm, R J Mitchell Primaries and Towers Juniors – to hear what great plans they have in place and progress they are making implementing Switched on ICT. Last night’s meeting involved sharing ideas about how the schools are linking Switched on ICT units to their [...]
Contributed by: julieg.
Share your primary ICT ideas and be in with a chance of winning a £100 M&S voucher.
The team at Rising Stars will choose one STAR post from the community each half term and the winner will receive a £100 M&S voucher. All you need to do to take part is register your name and hit the contribute button to share your great classroom ICT ideas!
Games programming with Y6 at Ferry Lane
Having had great success with our first SOICT unit (see this post), my year 6 class were chomping at the bit to begin unit 6.3 – ‘we are games developers’. Only two weeks in, they are already surpassing my expectations in terms of engagement and ability. We began by looking at games that they already [...]
Contributed by: jacksloan.
