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
Monday, June 27, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
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!
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!
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
Monday, February 28, 2011
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:
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.
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.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
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:
I also found another Garfield comic:
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
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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:
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