Week 4 - Year 3/4 Comic Life

Today all the Year 3 and 4 classes continued to work on their Comic Life - Safety on the Net posters.

Today we learnt how to change the colours, background and lines within our Comic Life creations.

We can do this by clicking on the details tab.

Once we are in details we just need to click on a part of our comic life then we can fill it or change the colour.

Our focus is to have the content complete today so that our next session we can spend time on blinging out our posters.

Week 4 -Extention Groups Kid Pix Brainstorms

These are the amazing brainstorms the Year 3 children came up with!

Room 16 Preston & Braeden

Room 15 Ben & Caiah

Room 14 Cruze & Mary Jane

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Week 4 - Maintenance/Extention

Maintenance

Today we re capped connecting and saving to the server.  Some of the children were new to this so the others in the group used their skills to teach them how to do this.  It was great to see them interacting and sharing their knowledge with each other.  The children felt success as they taught others to connect and save using the server.

Extention:

Today the Year 3 and 4s began their extention groups.

Year 3: We discussed landmarks in Auckland and NZ.  I explained to the children what our outcome will be.  We are going to produce a brochure about Auckland landmarks.  We looked at a variety of brochures to see what we would require in ours.  We decided that ours would need:

-titles

-colour

-words

-information

-pictures

-maps

-diagrams

for it to be successful.

Then with our partner and using the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHY, HOW questions we decided on a landmark and prepared questions to investigate.  We used Kid Pix to do our brainstorm of questions.  

Week 4 - Year 2 Kid Pix Voice Recording

Welcome to Week 4

This week the Year 2 classes re capped our last lessons about staying safe online.  These are some of the things we remembered:

- dont give out your name

- exit

- ignore and delete

- tell a teacher

- ask an adult for help

We then worked with a partner to talk about 'How to stay safe online'!  We did a small interview we came up with questions like:

1. What can you do to stay safe online?

2. Why do you need to stay safe online?

3. What can you do if you need help?

Children practised their questions and responses and then recorded them using KidPix.

In Kid Pix children clicked onto the Sounds button.  They then clicked the microphone at the bottom of the page.  From here they use the buttons to guide them:

Red Circle for record

Blue Square for stop

Green triangle for play

We talked about speaking clearly and loudly.  Children listened to their recordings and then saved them to be able to share with others.

Week 4 - Year 1 Mouse Skills

Welcome to Week 4.

Today the Year 1 children learnt about using their mouse.  We learnt that if we run out of tail we can pick up the mouse and move it back in front of us so we can continue on with our work.  

We used KidPix to draw a picture using the pencil and if we were successful with that we also wrote our names using the mouse. 

We learnt where the icon for Kid Pix is.  Remember to look for the colour green and the letter K.

We learnt to click on the mouse to tell the computer to do something.  We also learnt to click, hold and drag the mouse so we were able to draw.

Some very clever Year 1 children were able to change colours and some could create their name using animated letters.  

Week 3 - Movie of Year 3/4 Server Experts

Today some classes nominated two 'EXPERTS' from their classes. These children worked with Mrs Davis on learning about the server. They learnt to connect to the server, save to the server and to add new folders. These children will now take on the role of teacher and will share their skills with their classmates.

To save to the server you can follow the instructions:
1. command then K
2. click on connect
3. user name and password these will be your class number eg:
Username room20
password room20 (no spaces)
4. click on students
5.click on your class number

To save to the server make sure you are firstly connected to the server.
then:
1. save as
2. find the server file and click
3. students
4. room number
5. your file with your name on it
6. give the file a name and save

TIP: YOU NEED TO BE ONLINE TO ACCESS THE SERVER!!

Now have a look at the movie the children made on connecting to the server.

Week 3 - Year 1/2 Net Safety

Following is some of the work completed today using Kid Pix to show their message about staying safe when using the computer.




Today we worked again on Net Safety as we did last week. It was the turn of the classes who missed out on this lesson last week. Some great ideas were again brainstormed together on ways to stay safe online. Some of their ideas included:
-exit
-ask a teacher to help you
- wash your screen
- press the x button

The children in Year 1 & 2 worked on Kid Pix with a friend to design a piece of work that included the following.
The children developed the success criteria for their work:
-pictures
- title
- words about safety
- name and room number

The children in Year 3/4 worked on their designs for their Comic Life designs. There success criteria that they developed included:
-pictures
-speech bubble
-title
-words - sentence about safety in ICT

Photos - Planning stage in action

Some pictures of the children working hard on their plans for Comic Life. Children worked in pairs and this allowed them to collaborate their ideas and understanding of the task.

Week 2 - Year 3/4 Net Safety

Today was the Year 3/4s turn to learn about staying safe online. We had fun discussing ways to stay safe online. We watched Hector and he told us about not giving out our personal information online. He told us that we could use a nick name rather than our real name as this would keep our identity safe. Our next step was to work with a partner to plan out our ideas for a poster with a message about staying safe online. We are using Comic Life to publish so spent the lesson penciling our ideas down. We had fun doing this and are looking forward to next lesson where we will begin to publish our work.

The Year 3/4s came up with these ideas to stay safe online:
-not give out your personal details
-exit a site if you see something you don't like
-tell a teacher or adult if you see something you don't like
-don't go onto sites that you don't know
-don't send mean things to people

If you would like to learn more about staying safe online you can visit: www.hectorsworld.com

Year 1/2 Staying Safe Posters

Week 2 - Year 5/6 Cybersafety

Worked with the Year 5/6 children today looking at staying safe online. The children have spent today drafting and designing a Cyber safety poster. They worked in pairs and will put their ideas to work next week when they use Comic Life to bring their plans into action. Stay tuned to see some of their amazing work.

Week 2 - Year 1/2 - Net Safety

Welcome to ICT with Mrs Davis
Week 2

Focus: Net Safety

Keeping safe in ICT not only in the room but while using the equipment. We learnt today that it is important not to give out your personal details while online. Hector told us that instead of using our own name we could use a nic name or maybe only our first name.

If you would like to have another look at the video we watched or browse for further information about staying safe while using the computers use the link below.

www.hectorsworld.com

Today we learnt about staying safe and what we can do if we find something we dont like. We watched a short movie on keeping our personal information to ourselves. We then used KidPix to design posters to show how we can stay safe in ICT.