Ingrave Johnstone Learning Journey

Lesson 2

Learning Expectations

To understand links and adding media citations
To use keyboard shortcuts for Copy and Paste
To understand the colour values as hex-a-decimal numbers

Starter Challenge

Log on to your Google Account as you did in the previous lesson.
Go to Google Classroom and answer the question.

The Timeline Challenge

In this challenge you are going to publish your timeline and will then add further entries to your Timeline spreadsheet and also add images as well as backgrounds.

Step 1 - Publish your Timeline

Go to the website timeline.knightlab.com
Open your spreadsheet by clicking the entry in Google Classroom from the last lesson.
From the File menu of your spreadsheet click Publish to the Web...
Click the blue button Publish then click Ok.
Close the window.
In the Omnibar at the top of the page, select the URL (this will look like a long string of letters and numbers)
Copy this URL by pressing Ctrl - C on the keyboard.
Go back to the timeline.knightlab.com website
Scroll down to Step 3 of the instructions
Paste the URL by pressing Ctrl - V on the keyboard, then press the Tab Key to register the entry.
Scroll to the bottom of Step 4 and click Open Preview in New Window (Don't close this tab)

Step 2 - Add a Background Colour

Go back to your Timeline spreadsheet
Go to the last column of your first entry called Background. In this cell you are going to put the hexadecimal colour code of the colour you would like to appear as the background.
Go to the following website - www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp
Find a colour that you would like for your first entry of your Timeline and enter this Hex number including the # into the Background cell of the 'When you were born' entry of the spreadsheet.
Go back to the tab with your interactive Timeline and refresh the screen. What do you notice?

Step 3 - Add an Image

Go back to your spreadsheet.
Go to the column that says Media
Choose the row where you started your school.
Open a new tab on your browser.
Go to images.
Search for an image of Ingrave Johnstone Primary School.
Click the image that you want.
Right click on the image and choose 'Copy Image Address'
Go back to your spreadsheet and paste this image into the Media column for the correct row.
Go back to the image of the school click the link for the website where this image was taken.
Copy the URL of this page and paste it into Media Credit column
In the Media Caption column add the text 'Ingrave Johnstone Primary School'
Go back to the tab with your interactive Timeline and refresh the page.

Vocabulary

Columns

Rows

Cells

Omnibar

Tab Key

Hexadecimal

Colour Codes

Refresh

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