Google advanced searches

Dear Year 8

Now that you have started creating your powerpoint on advanced searches your ready to create slides that demonstrate how you can do:

1. 10 clever Google search tips
2. Advanced image searches
3. Advanced Google Map searches 
4. How to put your favourite cafe or restaurant on Google maps

Add a slide ro each of the above


Extension challenge - praise email
Create a map search to get directions form one place to another.  Maybe your grandparents house or a UK holiday that your going on in the summer

Animation for your crisp advert

Hi Year 8


Now that we have designed our crisp we need to make an advert for it.


To do this we will be using the flash animation software.



To find this go to start menu / all programmes / adobe creative suite 5 / Adobe Flash professional



Here is a little video to remind you how this works but you will need to think about what your animation will do and the images that you need to find and edit in Photoshop to allow you to do this .You could use the crisp images on the system but before you import them to flash you will need to cut the background out or they will look rather silly.









Extension challenge
Use the help sheet here to make a shape tween (a shape that changes shape between your eyes!)


Then see if you can make a potato morph into a tasty crisp.


Praise email for anyone that can!


Good luck and enjoy


Mr T

Year 8 Website design and creation

Year 8’s are on to web design.

The first few lessons are basic HTML tags and using notebook to make a simple page.

We will then start to look at analysing websites.

Its such a short term so the sooner you get on to the creation the better.

Good luck and do well

Mr T

Year 8 Computing

Lesson 2 on graphics - The difference between BITMAPS and VECTOR graphics
Todays lesson is a research and presentation
Year 8 Graphics- Our first few lessons are just really defining the differences between bitmap and vector graphics. There are worksheets but they could also do their own research on this ( the differences etc )and present to class. The homework will be related to this.

 

I quite like this youtube clip so we can have a look after a few minutes of research to check that were on the right track
:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy9Pby0Gzsc

 

 

Lessons 1 and 2 have  worksheets for them to do- I know it gets a bit confusing at lesson 3!

Christmas Market Signage Activity

Lesson 3 gets them to look at the concept of layering and will require a bit of photoshop ( have you used this before?) if I had them last year they will know some of it but might be worth going through the basics with them.

(there are great resources and tutorials on the KS3- y9 page) for basic photoshop skills.

 

Really at this stage they are still looking at composition/ layouts of graphics/ they can easily spend a lesson analysing a movie poster/ logos etc

 

Or…

 

 

They can have a go at using my youtube tutorial on photoshop or illustrator here:

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaAZtm_NWFZp1HhIPc0boag

 

The text effects one is quite easy to follow along with ( if they have headphones) and it gets them used to using photoshop.

 

Parents evening- you will be in the canteen or main hall at WL, its yet to be confirmed but names will be on tables ( Rachel will be there)

 

Attitudes/ effort and behaviour are the main topic of conversation I think at this stage!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Good morning Year 8 and welcome to Python Magic

Good morning Year 8

Well we have the best opportunity to learn a new language but this is not a modern foreign langauge this is the language that telss computers what to do.

Why Bovver?

Well there are not many people out in the big wild world who can do this.  Based on the supply and demand rules of economics if there are not many skilled people available the ones that are get paid an obscene amount of money.  

How much money would you like to earn a day, a week a month or a year?

So lets get a start on.  The links below might help get you excited:

• What is Python click here and here

• Python for beginners click here

• Welcome to Python click here

• Learn Python in one hour see VLOG post below

I hope you enjoyed the first lesson

Good luck and do well

Mr T

Code it - Compile it - Flash it - Comming Soon Ollie Smoth's Code Academy at Oxted School

Dear all

we are delighted to announce that Ollie Smith's Code Academy will be starting up in the final term.

Ollie is a keen programmer who is self taught and would like to share his skills and abilities with others.

Time: P6

Day: Every Thursday 3.20pm - 4pm

Venue: EDIT

He will be teaching you the skills to:

Write Code

Design Games

Build Websites

Make Graphics

Anyone who attends the first three weeks will be invited to  take home and play with a BBC Micro Bit
  The Micro Bit - 10 things you need to know here

Your first three steps:

Step 1 Coding
Step 2 Compiling
Step 3 Flashing

click here

For more information see here and here

Microbit Coding

School Registration


Once you've got bored with the above why not have a look at
Code Club
Code.Org