Summer Holidays

Hi everyone,

Its almost the summer holidays! I'm so excited to go back to Holland! This has been an amazing year. The step from primary school to secondary school was extreme but I've learned a lot. Also in ICT. Because I now know how to make a blog and edit it, and post things.

Lois

Scratch

Hi everyone,

The week before the holidays, we finished the unit on Comics. Now we are starting a new unit on Scratch. Scratch is a program to make other programs. There is a person, in this case the cat, Scratch himself. You can make him do anything. Walk forwards, backwards, etc. He can even walk stairs! So now I'm trying to find out how to make Scratch do what I want!

My Own Comic

Hi,

As I said in one of my earlier posts, all the yr 7 classes have worked in pairs to create their own comic. I have done that too and here is the final concept. I hope you enjoy it!

Title: An Important Lesson

Features: Lots of Color, Cool Handwriting

Genre: Comedy, Teaching a Lesson

Audience: Secondary School Kids

Lecture In IL

Hi,

Every Tuesday we have IL (independent learning). In IL we learn things that will be useful later on in our life. Today we learned how to take notes at an lecture, something which will be useful if we go into university. We were supposed to go to 'TextEdit' so that we can't be distracted by fonts, colors, and other things. Basically, it is very simple.

Then, we had to take notes on the important things that the teacher, who gave an mini-lecture, said. We focused on the skill (to take note on only the important things) before we moved on the lectures. Today, during the lecture, we learned how the internet works. We found out that the internet is very complicated.

Here are the notes that I took:

Topic: Computing 101, The Internet
Learning about: Functions and how to use it.

1. Packet Switching- Breaking the file that you want to send up into little parts called packets.
2. Network of networks- all the computers connected to a network which is part of the internet.
3. TCP/IP

Facts:

• All the networks together form the internet.
• A file gets broken up into tiny parts and then gets send to the destination. 
• A file gets send in seconds.

Explanation: 

In the school we have a network of computers, just like almost everywhere. Other places have similar set-up. The internet connects every network together. 

If you want to send something to a website like Facebook, the computer finds the place you want to send it to, in this case that might be Facebook. The file you want to send will be split up and send according to the fastest way, usually. Then it will reach the destination in seconds.

If you still don't understand, or you just want an other example; press here to help you to understand the Internet by a video made by students.

More Comics!

Hi!

In my spare time, I went to research for some other short comics with different audiences, genres, features (and titles). If found this one:

• Title: Garfield 
• Features: Very colorful, Comic Sans MS
• Genre: Informal, comedy
• Audience: Kids

I also found another Garfield comic:

• Title: Garfield
• Features: Colorful
• Genre: Comedy
• Audience: Kids

All About Comics!

In the subject ICT, for the start of our new unit, comics, we have to post a comic on our student blogs. I found a short comic on the web.

Although I think it is quite funny, it might only be funny if you know the game. If you don't, you might not get the joke.

Here is some detail about the comic:

• The title of this comic is: Waddle On.
• The audience are: Kids under the age of 12 (Probably kids who know the game.) 
• Some features are: A lot of color, medium size, Comic Sans MS, Mostly pictures, etc.
• The genre/style is: Comedy.

My classmate, Mahima, was nice enough to copy out the mind-map that me and my class discussed in class on a site called mindmeister. Then she posted it on our ICHK Wiki (where we write about Apple softwares online and since shortly our class-notes). The mind-map is to help us find out what the title, features, audience and the genre of a comic is. Here is the mind-map Mahima created:

Podcasting/RSS Feeds/Subscription

Hi everyone,

In this post, I'm going to tell you about what podcasting means and how you could use it. It's very simple:

What is a 'podcast'?

A podcast is like a video but without the screen to look at the scene. Or like a CD but than any subject and not only music. Also you might describe a podcast as someone reading a book to you. You can see it as something you listen to but can’t see (it can only be something electronic. So not listening to a friend with your eyes closed and then saying it's a podcast). Also, it is prerecorded. This means it isn't a live show.

Mostly, a podcast is a audio. But sometimes it’s a video. A podcast is not just one episode, it’s episodically. Which means more than one, or in series.

A podcast is downloaded or streamed from the internet. There are many different types of podcasts. To name some: news, children(until a certain age), humorous, serious, tv programs, etc, etc.
The audience of podcasts are usually: if you feel serious, listen to the news. If you are in a funny and laughing mood, go for a humorous podcast.

How could you use a podcast?

Podcasts come in useful if for example you missed a radio news program. You can go to the news program website and look under podcasts(if they have a website and podcast from their episodes). Most of the time, you can easily find a podcast. Remember the title of your show and then you'll find it.

How to use it? (example:)

Lets say, for example you wanted to listen to a news podcast:

1. Find a website that has both RSS Feed and a podcast on it.
2. Copy the RSS Feed. (RSS Feed/Subscribe + "Copy link")
3. Go to your google reader account. (If you haven't got one yet, on google search, type in google reader and make an account.)
4. If you done all of that, press "add an subscription".
5. Paste the RSS Feed/Subscription in the box.
6. Press add and then enjoy!

Here is my bibliography:
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