Digital Skills 1 - Profile for your Blog
Introduce yourself on your new blog by creating an All About Me poster to add to your blog. You can create your own Google Drawing from your Drive or you can click on the image and make a copy of the one shown. Make sure you change the name, the details add pictures of your interests. You can add an avatar too. Move your poster to your Cybersmart folder. Upload to your Edublog.
Creating self images with Avatar Maker & Cartoonify
Create an image of yourself using Cartoonify or Avatar Maker
Download the image to your Google Drive
Using Google Drawings effectively
Create 4 faces that show 4 different feelings using Avatar Maker or Cartoonify
Download each face to your Google Drive
Create a new Google Drawing, name it Feelings and put it into your Cybersmart folder.
Insert a rectangle to create the header box for your Google Drawing. The header is called "Feelings Faces".
Insert each face into your Google drawing.
Insert a text box under the happy faces and write the feeling that the face is showing.
Digital Skills 3- Other student blogs
Looking at other student blogs may inspire you with ideas. You can also learn about what makes a blog post look good or not so good. When you are looking at other blogs, think about the colours, the format and the images that have been used. Which posts did you really like and why. Try sharing the posts you found with a buddy and talk about why you liked it. Did the posts teach you anything new?
Go to the Blog Comments Page to learn about making Positive, Thoughtful, Helpful Comments on Blog posts.
Digital Skills 4 - Animation
Creating an animation with Google Slides
Watch the animations below to get some inspiration. Then follow the instructions below to create your own animation slideshow.
CREATE your own animation slideshow.
Open a new Google Slide and give your animation a title.
Decide what your animation is going to be about. Will there be characters, animals or objects that move?
Find the background you need to match your animation.
Create your character, animal or object using shapes or insert a picture that you want to move.
Group the shapes together so your character, animal or object moves all together.
Duplicate your slide. Then move your character a very small amount. Keep duplicating your slide and moving your characters, animals or objects slightly.
Test your digital skills with a Digital Dig.
Do you know where everything is on your keyboard?
Learn some keyboard shortcuts and how to take a photo.
Or take some time to practise these skills by working through the Digital Dig slides.
Make your own copy of the Digital Dig. Add your name to the title and move it to your Cybersmart folder.
Digital Skills 6 - Botlogic
Have some fun with basic coding. Get the robot to where he needs to be. This starts off easy and gets harder. Botlogic could get you interested in learning more about coding and creating your own games.
Challenge yourself to learn about coding with code.org. Click on the link above or on the image to go to the code.org site. Login yourself in with Google and start exploring. Try out Dance Party, Minecraft and lots more challenges.