PowerPoint which could be used to develop lessons in stop motion animation - covers four phases: research, preparation, production, publication. Gets students thinking about what makes a good stop motion animation. Includes links to interesting videos featuring those that work in the industry.
Monkey Jam is free stop motion animation software. Included is a one-page guide to using the program. Web cam required!
A lesson plan for a half-day session for adaptation.
Storyboard
Teach ICT skills along the theme of "The Car Boot Sale". Covering:
Animated Banners (Flash)
Audio Clips (Audacity)
Databases (Access 2003 or 2007+)
E-Newsletter (Serif WebPlus)
Event Modelling - spreadsheets (Excel 2003 or 2007+)
File Management (Windows Explorer)
Logo (Inkscape - free)
PDF Creation (PDF Creator or similar - free)
Sources (Irfanview for quickly making thumbnails)
If you are missing any files, do let me know.
Develop enterprise skills in IT. Teaching students about the below concepts **always** works better when students have ownership over their own business idea. Trust me!
A set of worksheets covering:
Lovely Logos
Lush Letters
Beneficial Business Cards
Mega Mail Merge
Snazzy Spreadsheets
Uses:
Inkscape (Free)
Excel
Word
Serif PagePlus
A compact booklet (designed to be printed as small as folded A4 into A5). Designed for 11-15 year olds to get them into programming Python. Some fun/interesting examples...
Content:
Downloading Python
The IDLE
Print
Saving & Running
Sequence
Selection (I've been expecting you Mr Bond)
Keyboard essentials (short cuts)
Secret Message (IF selection,)
Boolean Operators
Truth Table
Forever loop: Iteration
For Loop (blast off!)
Who is this guy? (nested IF)
Introduction to Flowcharts
Random number guessing game
Ninja Python Turtle (for loop iteration)
Shhh, Caesar Cipher Function
Kim's Game (Variation) using a custom function and loading an external text file.
Enjoy :-)
Describing the target audience and purpose of a project or intended project.
2 page worksheet explaining how one can define a target audience - with help from adverts from Kia and VW.
There is a spider diagram to help students to explain the purpose of a project too.
Worksheet and instructions, relatively easy to follow!
Students pick up basic vector drawing skills and can then apply them to create their own cartoon images.
A clear diagram to help explain how a network can be put together. A good discussion point for nodes, hubs, switches, routers, WAPs, NICs, Cat5e, fibre optics.