Moving on

This blog is no longer being maintained. My attention has shifted to http://ictisocs.blogspot.com/

How to make a paper CD cover

How To Make A CD Cover Using A4 Paper

How To Make A CD Cover Using A4 Paper

The New Media Literacies, or What do you need to know?

Members of the research team at Project New Media Literacies discuss the social skills and cultural competencies needed to fully engage with today's participatory culture. Featuring Henry Jenkins, and produced by Anna Van Someren at Project New Media Literacies. See more NML videos at http://techtv.mit.edu/videos

This video is at YouTube. Students won't be able to see it in school.

International Citizenship Week

 We have Kimmie Weeks with us in school this week.  In ICT we looked at these web pages:

Kimmie Weeks website: http://www.youthactioninternational.org/yai/
     look at this at home so that you can see the videos.
Africa map: http://www.africaguide.com/afmap.htm
Stateris Africa: http://www.mapmsg.com/games/statetris/africa/

Scratch Challenge

Project "Chasing/Eating" (Pac Man Type Game)

Requirements:

1. Game must have a main character that the user moves about the screen using the arrow keys on the keyboard.
2. There must be "food" that the character eats. The food will disappear after the character eats it.

Extras:

1. The game area must have a maze that the main character must "bounce" off when it touches the maze.
2. The game keeps score based on the number of food eaten.
3. Ghosts or evil characters chase the main character.
4. System for keeping track of the lives of the main character.

Code samples for Chasing/Eating
Step By Step Instructions for Chasing/Eating

Here are some examples from the Scratch Gallery:

Get the donut and the most points

"The way to start the game is press the green flag. To Control: Press the left arrow key to go left. Press the right arrows key to go right. Press the down arrow key to go down. Press the up arrow to go up. The object of the game is to get to the donut at the end with the most points. And get his family for the most points. But don't get caught by the police!!"

This project has 7 sprites and 23 scriptsLearn more about this project



Pacman Eating Bees

"Pacman is hungary and he wants some bees! INSTUCTIONS: Click the green flag to start. The pacman will follow the mouse pointer. Chase the bees around and he will eat them. If you are bored enough, you can get a really high score!"
This project has 4 sprites and 5 scripts. Learn more about this project

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Mr. Michaud at Nebo Elementary School wrote the germ of these excellent lessons. My thanks to him, and to Bill Kerr for pointing me to them.

Search, Collect, Evaluate

Research: Search, Collect, Evaluate from John Hendron on Vimeo.