Year 8 Blogging

Have started using Blogger again with my Year 8 Class to record their progress through the Unit 4 Multimedia Tell me a story SOW.

I hope they will be able to make a film like this one...

Sopa Blackout

Viewpoints: Sites go offline in US piracy laws protest here

Gamemaker Unit 5

Use this link to download Gamemaker at home 

http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/windows

Online Polling with Year 8

 

Using Poll Everywhere to get feedback on websites today with 8X1 

 

http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/NjU5MzU3OTc

Adobe Illustrator - Brick brush

Year 10 here is a link to download a brick brush for use in Illustrator.

 

Useful for your shop fronts

 

Top tip - hold down the shift key to paint brush a straight line!

 

Friday the Thirteenth,

It's Friday the thirteenth,

 

First of all, have you ever researched (read: looked up on Wikipedia) the origin of Friday the 13th? So sayeth the oracle:

The fear of Friday the 13th is called friggatriskaidekaphobia (Frigga being the name of the Norse goddess for whom "Friday" is named and triskaidekaphobia meaning fear of the number thirteen), or paraskevidekatriaphobia a concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví (Παρασκευή, meaning "Friday"), and dekatreís (δεκατρείς, meaning "thirteen") attached to phobía (φοβία, from phóbos, φόβος, meaning "fear"). The latter word was derived in 1911 and first appeared in a mainstream source in 1953.

 

Code Year

Something to introduce to students?
 
Make your New Year's resolution learning to code.

Sign up on Code Year to get a new interactive programming lesson sent to you each week and you'll be building apps
and web sites before you know it.

http://codeyear.com/

New CPR Advice

Vinnie Jones fronts CPR campaign with new advice more info here

Happy New Year... Some things to do in Years 10 and 11

Year 11 

Unit 5 SPB Link

Essentially you need to be ready to build your game very soon. It should be apparent that we are now talking a matter of lessons rather than months/weeks to get this project finished.

Notes:

Sprites need to be 32x32, 32x64 or 64x64 depending on their type of game - all backgrounds should be 800x600.

You Should have completed the following documents in depth and linked to your websites

• Overview
• Moodboard
• Storyboards

Once these are linked please try and check they are linked and working on the Web! You can work on designing some backgrounds, opening screens etc for their game need to make sure they are the sizes above.  Fireworks is the best software to make them and save into the Building it folder.

Year 10 

Unit 3 SPB Link

Ensure the following are finished and linked up

• Proposal
• Design Log for Logo
• Logo draft, improved and final
• Shop Front sketch and Fireworks version
• Update ongoing plan to show accurate dates and time
• Each of these should have several hundred words explaining the work on their website
• Spell Check everything
• Update Progress Tracker