Digital Competence

Presenting information about actor Taron Egerton
Your learners can present the facts below (or search for facts themselves) about Taron Egerton in an interesting way in the form of a poster, web page or video featuring voice-overs using Adobe Express. Microsoft Powerpoint, Publisher or Word could also be used to present the facts. 

                                        Taron Egerton - From Ceredigion to Hollywood
Why not create a poster that uses text and images to tell Taron Egerton's story from living in Ceredigion to being a famous actor in Hollywood? In the video below Kyle T Webster will explain how to create your poster.

Create a film poster
Why not create a poster of their favorite movie, either in the style of old 1930s posters or as a modern poster? If you want to create a poster digitally why not use the 'Text to Image' option in Adobe Express to create bespoke images for inclusion in the poster.

                                                   Creating animations and films
Your learners can use a variety of tools to create animations and films of their own. Here are some videos showing how to use the different tools:

                                                             Composing music
If you use iMovie for creating your film , you can use Garage Band to compose a new piece of original music you could include in the film. By composing a song in Garage Band you will avoid any problems with the copyright of music in your film!

Light sensing investigation
Your learners can code the Micro:bit into a light sensor to see which use lets the most/least light through. 

Download the 'Hex' file for the 'Mission Impossible' theme tune

Cracking the code
Search in the cells within the spreadsheet named for letters that will create words related to film making. . 

Cracking the code - Learner's copy

Cracking the code - Answers

Going to the cinema
Use the information from the cinema website and Excel formulas to calculate the cost of a various amounts of tickets.

'Going to the cinema' spreadsheet

The 10 highest grossing films of all time!
You can add the data from the posters to a spreadsheet and then proceed to graph the information as a bar graph. Formulas could then be used to find out what is the maximum , minimum , mean of the data. Also a formula could be used to find out the total money in dollars spent on the 10 most popular movies of all time.

Famous actors database (answering questions about the data shown in the database)
This activity is for the youngest learners in progression step 3 or learners who have not had much experience using a database before.

Link to access the database
Link to access the questions

Famous actors database (create from scratch)
You can use the information cards below to create a database. The learners can then organize and perform searches for the data.