Friday 13 July 2018

Some Python programming fun!

Here are the tasks for this lesson:

1.  Make sure you finished both extension tasks from my slideshow on lesson 4.  If you can't remember how to do it, check through all the slides.
Make sure you copy paste the share link on to the blog post for this lesson (title the post the same as this one).

2.  I have made a very simple Python game.  Have a look at this and play it .....


3.  Your task is to try and make on of your own!  It just uses the Selection programming we did last lesson....

4.  Here is a link to a website that uses an ASCII text generator.  This makes the title like the one on my game.

Type your title into the centre box and the title will appear in the main white box.

Link to ASCII text generator

Copy/paste the new style title from the main box onto your programming centre white section on Python.

At the start of each line type the print command print("
At the end of each line type ")

After the last line you can start your main program.

At the end of the lesson, copy/paste your Python Share link to a new blog post titled the same as this one.

Publish!









Monday 9 July 2018

Python lesson 4 - selection

In this lesson, you are going to program the computer to make decisions (or give a response) based on the answer (input) to a question.  This is a bit like the computer deciding whether to log you into your account, depending on whether your password matches your user name; it will either log you in fine or give an error message that user name and password do not match.

Here is a link to my slideshow to explain further and provide your tasks for the lesson.....

Python Lesson 4 Selection

Friday 22 June 2018

Python Lesson 3

In this lesson, you are going to learn how to program maths calculations in Python

Objectives and Outcomes

  • To understand that data comes in different 'types'.
  • To be able to describe a types of data (band 3)
  • To be able to explain why a computer needs to know what the data type is for a given input / variable (band 4)
  • To be able to apply this knowledge to create a program that performs arithmetic calculations (band 5)


1.  Open a new blog post and title it the same as this one.

2.  On your post, explain why we have to tell the program what type of data is being stored in a variable.  My slideshow will help you with this...

Slideshow on how to do maths in Python!



Here is the link to the summary sheet (page 1) and the Maths Programming Tasks (page 2)





Share Google doc (Click Advanced - change from Private to Anyone with the Link) and copy/ paste link to your blog post underneath your writing.

PUBLISH!!

Wednesday 20 June 2018

Python Lesson 2

In this lesson you are going to be practising your programming using input, outputs and storage variables.

Here's my slideshow with information and details of the tasks....

Python Lesson 2 slideshow

Wednesday 13 June 2018

Python - Lesson 1

In this lesson, you are going to start to learn how to program in Python.

Previously you've used Scratch to create a program and this involved selecting programming "block" and joining them up in the right order like a jigsaw to make your program run as you wanted.

Python is a programming language where you type in the commands to get the program to do what you want.  It's called text-based programming and is the next stage up from Scratch; you are writing the sort of programming that is going on "behind the scenes" of the Scratch programming blocks.

Objectives and Outcomes

  • be able to describe what Python is (band 3)
  • be able to explain how Python works (band 4)
  • be able to apply your understanding to program inputs and output and store them in variables (band 5)
  • be able to link this work to programming you have done in previous units (band 6)

Here is a link to my slideshow with info and tasks.....


Wednesday 6 June 2018

My Digital World Test links

Here are the links to the multiple choice test for My Digital World unit.

Make sure you click on the test link for your class!

7x1 My Digital World test


7y4 My Digital World test


Wednesday 23 May 2018

My Digital World - Lesson 5 Cyberbullying

In this lesson you are going to learn what cyber-bullying is, how to deal with it and support others who are cyber-bullied.

Objectives and Outcomes

  • be able to describe what cyber-bullying is (band 3)
  • be able to explain what to do if being cyber-bullied (band 4)
  • be able to apply this knowledge and create a poster about preventing and reporting cyber-bullying (band 5)
Here is a link to my slideshow with more information and task for the lesson....




Wednesday 16 May 2018

My Digital World Lesson 4 - Staying Safe

In this lesson you are going to look at the dangers out there online and what you can do to keep yourself safe.

Objectives and Outcomes

  • be able to describe the dangers to personal safety online (band 3)
  • be able to explain how you can keep yourself safe from these dangers (band 4)
  • be able to apply this knowledge by creating a slideshow for 10 year olds on how to keep themselves safe online (band 5)
Here is a link to my slideshow giving more information, plus your task for the lesson....





Friday 4 May 2018

My Digital World Lesson 3 - Copyrights and Copywrongs

In this lesson you'll be learning about the laws relating to the internet and information in the public domain.

Objectives and Outcomes

  • be able to explain what copyright law means (band 4)
  • be able to apply this knowledge to produce a slideshow for GCSE students (band 5)
  • be able to link this knowledge to a situation when you have had to consider, and abide by, the laws of copyright (band 6)
Here is a link to my slideshow explaining more about this and with tasks for this lesson....


Homework / Extension work

Open this worksheet link, make a copy and complete it.

Share correctly to Anyone with the link and copy/paste the link under all your work

Wednesday 2 May 2018

My Digital World Lesson 2 - Searching Smart

In this lesson you will learn how Google search engine works and how we can search more efficiently and effectively.

Objectives and Outcomes

  • be able to describe what a search engine is (band 3)
  • be able to explain how a search engine works (band 4)
  • be able to apply this knowledge to searching using Boolean operators (band 5)
  • be able to link this work to  real-life example of using a search engine (band 6)


Here is the link to the slideshow for this lesson, with Tasks included

Smart Searching slideshow











Tuesday 24 April 2018

Friday 20 April 2018

HTML Tags Revision

Here are the tags we used in the HTML unit and you need to remember!

To start and end the program   <html> </html>

To create a labelled ‘internet’ tab at the top of the page
<head>
<title>    </title>
</head>

To make a main heading on the page  <h1> </h1>

To make a sub-heading on the page <h2>   </h2>

To make a new paragraph   <p> </p>

To make a line break  <br> There is no closing tag for this one

To change the font style   <font face =”name of font”> </font>

To change the size of font  <font size = “size of font”>  </font>

To change the colour of font < font color=”colour name or hexadecimal code”>   </font>

To align the font on the page (ie left, centre or right)  <font align = “position”>   </font>     Remember to spell it ‘center’  - American style!

To add an image <img src=”image address”>    </img src>

To add a hyperlink to aother page <a href = “name of page”>    </a>

To embolden the font <b>   </b>

To turn the font italic <i>   </i>

To underline the font <u>   </u>

Thursday 5 April 2018

My Digital World - Lesson 1

In this unit you will learn about how to identify trustworthy websites over those that may not be so genuine, plus how to stay safe online and rules of copyright.

Objectives and Outcomes

  • Be able to define what the word 'trustworthy' means (band 3)
  • Be able to explain the 6 criteria for judging if a website can be trusted (band 4)
  • Be able to apply the 6 criteria to evaluating the websites by completing the worksheet (band 5)
Here is a link to my slideshow for this lesson with information, tasks and links to the worksheet....



Sunday 18 March 2018

HTML Lesson 4 onwards

You're carrying on adding more content to your web pages and adding more pages!

Task 1
You need to open this worksheet   HTML code worksheet.

Make a copy (file - Make a copy), complete it, share it to Anyone with the link, and copy/paste the link to a new post titled the same as this one.

Task 2

Add more content and pages!

Check out this slideshow for more help on adding extra info and tags to your pages   Extra web page ideas and tags

You can also go back to my previous posts for slideshows on adding content (images, formatting text, etc) and tags for hyperlinking pages


Evidence 
Get your 'Share' link from your repl.it and copy/paste it to your post, underneath your link to your completed worksheet.

Publish  at the end of the lesson!

Bronze - at least 2 pages of content, at least 1 image and pages hyperlinked together

Silver - at least 2 pages of content, at least 1 image on each page, pages hyperlinked and text formatted

Gold - as above but more pages, more images, formatted text, external hyperlink

Friday 9 March 2018

HTML Lesson 3

In this lesson you are continuing to add more information to your webpages, make sure they are linked and also add some images.

Objectives and Outcomes

  • Be able to explain how text can be formatted in HTML (band 4)
  • Be able to apply new skills to adding images to your page (band 5)
  • Be able to link this work by showing on a webpage of your choice, where the images are coded in HTML for that page (band 6) (Copy/paste a screenshot to a Google slide, label it and share and link to your post.)

Today's tasks

1.  Make a new post for this lesson and title it the same as this one.

2.  Log into your repl.it account and load up the pages you made last lesson.

3.  A recap on what you've learned so far....

Go to this worksheet..... Recap worksheet
Make a copy of it and fill it in (you can use my slideshow from last lesson or your webpage coding to remind you).
Share it to Anyone with the link and copy/paste the link to today's blog post.

4.  Go to this slideshow....... HTML Lesson 3 slideshow
Read through all the slides and complete the tasks. 

Don't forget to get your repl.it Share link and copy/paste it to your blog post (along with Band 6 Google doc if done) and publish!

Friday 2 March 2018

HTML Lesson 2

In this lesson you are going to learn some new tags and how to make a second page and link to it.

Objectives and Outcomes

  • Be able to explain what the tags you have used today do on a webpage (band 4)
  • Be able to apply your learning to your webpage design (band 5)
  • Be able to link this learning to other webpages on the internet, identifying where the tags you have learned have been used (band 6)
Here is the link to my slideshow.  Work your way through the tasks, providing evidence as asked on the final slide.


Bronze - create a webpage that uses the following tags: <html></html>, <head></head>, <title></title>, <h1></h1>, <body></body>, <p></p>.  Also, try to centre-align a heading.

Silver - create 2 webpages that include all the above tags, plus change the font style (font face) and font colour. 

Complete the written work on slide 16 on your blog post as well as adding the shared link to your repl.it work.

Gold - all of silver, plus line breaks <br> and at least 2 different headings.
Complete all the written work as stated in silver, but also, complete the Band 6 work as explained on slide 16.

Wednesday 21 February 2018

HTML lesson 1

In this unit you are going to learn how to program in HTML.  This is the programming language used to create webpages.

Lesson Objectives and Outcomes

  • be able to explain what HTML coding is and what it is used for (band 4)
  • be able to apply your learning to create a webpage (band 5)
  • be able to link this to coding on other websites, identify different tags and what they do (band 6)



Here is the link to my slideshow that has all the information, links, screenshots and tasks that you'll need for this lesson...

HTML lesson 1 slideshow

Don't forget to publish your blog post at the end of the lesson!

Friday 2 February 2018

Computer Hardware - Lesson 5

In this lesson you are going to show how much you have learned and understood about input and output devices, and CPUs and how they work.

Here is the link to my slideshow which has details of the information you need to include in your slideshow.

Your task!

Bronze - complete boxes 1 - 4 on the slideshow

Silver - complete boxes 1 - 6 on the slideshow

Gold - complete all the boxes

Share your slideshow to Anyone with the Link and copy/paste the link to a new blog post titled the same as this one.

Publish!


Wednesday 31 January 2018

Computer Hardware Lesson 4 - the CPU

In this lesson you are going to learn what the CPU does and how it works.

Objectives and Outcomes

  • Be able to describe what the CPU is (band 3)
  • Be able to explain what it does and how it works (band 4)
  • Be able to apply your understanding by completing the worksheet
  • Link this work to work you did previously, eg Scratch - what was the CPU doing while you were creating your Pacman game in Scratch? (band 6)

Here is the link to my slideshow which will explain everything in more detail and includes your task for the lesson...


Here is the link to your written task...


When you have completed your worksheet, share it correctly (Share - Advanced - change from Private to Anyone with the Link).
Copy/paste the link on to a new blog post for today, titled the same as this one.

Band 6 - don't forget to try and Link this lesson with your Scratch programming as mentioned in the Objectives and Outcomes.  Write your notes under your worksheet link on your post

Publish!






Wednesday 17 January 2018

Computer Hardware Lesson 3 - How it all works

In this lesson you'll be finding out how a computer actually works.

Objectives and Outcomes

  • Be able to describe the steps that take place when you open a program (band 4)
  • Be able to explain how certain components (CPU, RAM and input and output devices) work together (band 5)
  • Link these ideas to examples of using a computer and programs in previous units, eg Scratch (band 6)
As you learned last lesson, computers are made up of lots of different components (parts) that all do different jobs.  

Here is a link to my slideshow where this is explained in more detail...


This slideshow also has tasks on it and links to worksheets for different bands.

Choose the worksheet for the band that you know from your marks so far is the most appropriate for you.  Do not take the easy option - challenge yourself, but do so realistically!  Ask me if you're not sure which one to do.

Share your worksheet correctly (Advanced - change from Private to Anyone with the Link) and copy/paste the link to your blog post for this lesson.  Make sure your post has a title (the same as this one)

Publish!

Computer Hardware Lesson 2 - What's inside a computer?

In this lesson you are going to learn what the main parts of hardware are inside a computer and what they do.

Objectives and Outcomes

  • Be able to describe how computers use inputs, process them and produce outputs (band 4)
  • Be able to explain the functions (what they do) of different pieces of hardware inside a computer (band 5)
1.  Open a new post on your blog and title it the same as this one.

2.  Click this link to open my slideshow of information and tasks for this lesson


3.  Read through my slideshow, watch the video on slide 3 (you'll need headphones!), check what you've remembered (slide 4) and complete Task 1 on slide 5.

4.  For Task 2 on slide 6, targets are 

Bronze - 4 components and a description of what each one does.

Silver - 5 components and a detailed description of what each one does.

Gold - 6 components, a detailed description of what each one does and an explanation of what would happen (or not!) to the working of the computer if each one of them in turn was missing.

5.  Share your slideshow (Advanced - change from Private to Anyone with the Link) and copy/paste the link to your blog post under your Task 1 work.

Publish!


Thursday 4 January 2018

Computer Hardware - Lesson 1

In this lesson you are going to think about what a computer is and think of a definition for a computer. 

Objectives and Outcomes

  • Understand what a computer is and how they can come in various forms
  • Be able to describe how computers receive commands and data
  • Be able to explain what 'processing' means
  • Be able to describe how computers can output information


1.  Open a new blog post and call it the same as this one.


2.  Here is a link to my slideshow.  Read through and then, on your post, write the answers to the Task 1 question on slide 3.

Link to slide show

3.  On your post, write your answers to Task 2 on slide 5.

4.  Go through slides 6 -14 and on your post, write the name of each device and then your answer.

5.  On your post, write down the name of the odd one out on slide 15 - the one that isn't a computer.

6.  On your post, answer Plenary 1 on slide 16.

7.  On your post, answer Plenary 2 on slide 16.

Make sure you have done as much work correctly as possible and then Publish!