Heroes apply within

In ICT on Monday, class Mars has been working on their job advert where as Venus continued typing their letter of application.

The past two lessons, have been aimed at using and applying all our skills of editing in order to make our text more interesting.

In order to do so, we have learned to change the font and the colour of the font, to add an image in the background, to make bullet points to list and to use relevant images (free of rights obviously)

Those who were done before the end of the lesson were allowed to add a hyperlink and even make a QRcode. We used a website which is free, but tries to sell you product when you generate the code. Miss Goulet taught us that you have to wait and not press Sign me up and wait because the code is actually downloading. It is a way websites use to sell you things. You think you have to do it, but in fact no.

You will have the chance to see our work since it will be displayed in the hallway.

Skills needed urgently!

This week,  we have used our skills on Word document to write a job advert.

In order to do so, we have practiced using resources on the internet as well as using the school network to save and share our work.

During the start of the lesson, we looked at various job adverts and how they were written or structured. You have to be careful when you are using Google, since there might be ads at the top of the page. Miss Goulet, told us that in order to make the difference between a link and an ad, you simply have to read if it mentions advertising on it. Often as well, the reliable links will be in green and the ads in yellow.

The aim of the lesson was to edit our work in order to make it interesting for a particular audience therefore, we have learned to insert a hyperlink on our job advert so people could go and read more about the job. It was tricky at first, but then once we practised it, it became easier. We also discovered you could hyperlink to another document. I thought it was only for a website.

In order to demonstrate that we learned to add an hyperlink, here is the video of Beowulf the animated version. 

Today, we had loads to type, so we tried to type using both hands and trying to keep our eyes on the text to copy rather than on the keyboard. I cannot say I have fully succeeded, but I have tried my hardest. 

"It feels good but weird, it is quicker with two hands, but I am so used to type with one hand that I wonder often if I am doing it right" mentioned Daniel in class Venus. 

Finding pictures on Google Chrome

During our ICT lesson on Monday , we learned how to select appropriate pictures using Google images.

Go on to Google and search up what you want and press 'Images' and it would say 'Tools', click 'Usage Rights'. It would say 'Labeled for noncommercial reuse with modification' then press the image you want. This way you can use pictures without breaking any copyrights laws.

 Afterwards, we had to use the pictures in order to fade it in the background, just like our passports. Here are the steps: Click on 'Insert' then click on shapes.Then, pick a shape and how big you want it to be. Go on to Google and choose your picture and press 'Save picture as' then go into your folder that you want to save it in. After, you should name your picture so you know what picture to chose. Press on your shape that you inserted and on the top it would say 'Format' also it would have orange on it. Then, press 'Shape fill' and press 'Picture' and go on to your file and press the picture you saved. After that, press 'Picture' and click 'Gradient' press more gradients and adjust the transparency and your all done!

Making a faded picture, that's a tricky part of computing because there is lots of steps and remembering to do. Like saving a picture into file, and remembering to do a shape before doing a image.

The easiest thing in computing is, copying and pasting pictures because you only have to click four times! It can be also easier once you know the shortcuts CTRL+V.

The challenge was to use a off rights image. Also, to make our own homemade passport stamps. The task was to select and image and those who wanted to a more difficult task could then go and select a picture free of rights.