ICT unit

talulabell · ICT unit

my objectvie for this halfterm is
Start to use basic editing techniques in a word processor or photo software
– insert, crop, rotate, resize, colour etc

Does anyone know of good free software to use for this to change effects. Not sure how to cover topic really.

cottage

What year group? And what software do you mainly use at school for WP or graphics?

talulabell

we use textease mainly however i have read somewhere on here of a free dowload linked to photos its for year 4

myrtle

powerpoint does all that

nm97yd

Picasa, maybe?
Or the one which comes with windows - windows office picture manager, although not very child friendly

greyengine

I'd stick to Powerpoint if I were you. The children are more likely to have it at home.

gorgeous51

You can do all of that in word which the children may have at home. Also publisher - they may have that too.

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littlebigfish

I too would stick to a microsoft product as it would be much more useful to the children.

talulabell

thankyou its the changing the colour unsure abput will have a play. Thanks for tips. Cant think of a purpose to do this to make it real, will have a think., Wanted to link to photostory but you dont need to resize your pics, ooh but you can crop them in there

myrtle

Find lots of Christmas images, teach the tools, final product a 'test' via instructions to do various things. Success is a finished Xmas Word/photstory/ppt etc

I'd stick to something they have at home so that they can practise.

talulabell

thankyou

queenlit

Any use:

http://www.kented.org.uk/themes/simulation/year4.html

queenlit

Or this:

http://www.thegrid.org.uk/learnin...1-2/resources/ict_sow/index.shtml

gorgeous51

This is one thing I did when I was in year 5/6 - although is easy enough for 3/4. It was my contribution to the ICTOPUS magazine last christmas.

http://www.ictopus.org.uk/downloads/sgp/SGP50.pdf

You may have to log in to view it, but it is free and ICTOPUS is a really useful source of ideas for ICT.

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myrtle

Great idea gorgeous thank you!

eric_the_red

What about photostory? It's free.

greyengine

Love the ictopus link. I've registered.

choccat

I've just done this with Year 5/6. We used Word and linked it to our Victorians theme. They each produced a one page document of Victorian inventions with text and pictures. They had to have at least three pictures on the page. All did very well and enjoyed doing it. And they printed out their work and stuck it in their topic books.