Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Year 10 Thursday 17th June

Morena, Year 10!
Today I am not sick but am at a course.
Your work today is:
1. Finish your hardware worksheet from Thursday ( in iNet --> DigiTech --> All Teachers --> Year 10 if you were away), make it fit onto one page by deleting the instructions and reformatting, and print for your folder.
2. Find out about what is inside the computer's main box (called a system unit). You might like to use Jegsworks or an old but useful program in My Computer --> Apps called Computer Works. Store the information you collect in either a Word document or a PowerPoint presentation. Remember to say where your information came from, and use pictures to help you describe what you find out.

Extra for Experts
1. Explain why bits and bytes are important when comparing pieces of computer hardware.
2. What terms are used describe large quantities of bytes?
3. Can you find a way of showing the comparative sizes and speeds of different pieces of hardware?
4. Find a definition of programming that makes sense to you.


Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Year 10 Thursday Work

Morena, Year 10s!

I am at home sick - have no voice to talk to you with.

What I want you to do today and tomorrow is to work on Animation.
You will collect information and images and display them using PowerPoint.

Use the wikipedia page on animation to find the following

  1. A definition of animation.
  2. A list of techniques with one example of each.

Use the wikipedia page on computer animation to find the meaning of important terms

  1. CGI
  2. Key frames
  3. Tweening
  4. Rendering
  5. Sprite

Use your computer's Start > All Programs to identify any software that can be used to make animations. Make a list of them and choose one to experiment with. An easy choice would be UnFREEz which you used in Year 9 - you made a series of frames in Paint and saved them as file type: gif, then put them in to UnFREEz. Other options are MovieMaker and Blender.

Plan and start to make a simple animation (no more than 10 frames) about one of these topics:

  • The recent weather
  • My favourite sport
  • My hero!