As part of the Digital Leaders’ responsibilities we set up a dinner time Computing club. We invited children from KS2 to come along, we worked in groups to produce games using Scratch. We spent the first few weeks developing the skills of our peers and then we planned and created Read more…
For Challenge 4, we firstly discussed what apps we wanted to test and rate. We then decided to design an ‘App Review Sheet’ which we could use to help us review the apps which we tested. Our ‘App Review Sheet’ was split into 5 different sections: Name What it’s used Read more…
We all chose our favourite apps to review. We really enjoyed preparing and filming our app reviews. Here are links to download our videos: David and Jenson reviewing Scratch Junior Leila reviews the Duck Builder Simulation Game Kornelia reviews Busy Things Read more…
For our challenge, we learnt how to use a new piece of software called, ‘Crumble’. This is a robotics kit that involves building real life systems and programming them. Once we had practiced with them for a couple of weeks we supported an after school club using them and wrote Read more…
For challenge 4 we created a video to show how a reading app called DigiSmart works. This app is going to be used in Key Stage 2 after half term so each class will be able to watch this video to explain what DigiSmart is and how to use it. Read more…
Spring term 2 Challenge 4 – Evaluating software applications (Apps) & Writing Reviews Develop a library of reviews on educational apps/programmes (by the children) Bronze Explain apps to other children e.g. Drop in sessions at lunch or beginning of class sessions Explore a range of apps to use in the Read more…
Challenge 4. Evaluating software applications (apps) & Writing Reviews You challenge this term is to develop a library of apps and review them Bronze Explain apps to other children e.g. Drop in sessions at lunch or beginning of class sessions Explore a range of apps to use in the classroom Read more…
We decided to review an educational app that we could talk to Y4-Y6 about. After researching different apps that were available, we decided to review the app ‘Little Alchemy.’ We were given a scoring sheet that we had to complete before giving it an overall rating. The app involved creating Read more…
For this challenge, we worked in pairs to make video tutorials showing people how to use several apps. These will be made available to teachers and children to hopefully help them.
We started this term by carrying out a survey to find out which Apps were being used in our classrooms. Our results showed that both teachers and children were not using many Apps and that staff did not know which Apps were good to use in the classroom. We decided Read more…