ICT+Enrichment

Rongotai Enrichment Sessions
Our lessons are going to explore basics of the internet, what it means to explore the internet and be safe online.

We will use some of Google's tools such Maps, Earth and Books - as well as brushing up on our search skills, typing abilities and sharing some ideas on the wiki.

Here are some of the other online resources that we'll be making use of.

Touch Typing Skills
[|Typing Lessons] - Start with these lessons, to get you used to the keyboard, and which fingers to use. If you get annoyed with some of the sound effects on that site, try some of these options, which other students found useful.

Here are also some typing programmes for you to use. You can click [|here] to play it I found this typing lesson and I found it really fun[| here]

Try out some [|Typing Karaoke] (in 8-bit video glory!)

Creative Commons
[|Sharing Creative Works]

Your challenge is to take the resources on this site - and remix them into some new content. Can you find any other CC licensed works to add to your presentation? Check out the [|Search section] of the creative commons website to get started. Below is a list of sites that have a lot of CC licensed work for you to use and remix. The [|Internet Archive] [|Wikimedia Commons] - Images, sounds and video [|Jamendo] - Music with free and CC licensed work [|Flickr - The Commons] - Massive online database of public photography. Images from universities and libraries around the world.

Make sure you check the licenses and are legally allowed to use the resources in your presentation.

Programming
Are you a problem solver? Can you figure out problems you don't know the answer to? Can you see patterns? Can you look at problems in different ways? Programmers are looking to do this, whenever they sit down to code and create.

Check out your lateral thinking skills, and focus on thinking for yourself at [|Thinking Myself].

//Code Academy//
Programming is a fun and rewarding way to learn about the technology that surrounds us, and anyone can learn it. Kids love building their own applications and web pages. [|Codecademy] is a fun and social way to learn coding for free. The learning takes place in the web-browser through interactive lessons and projects.

[|Introduction to HTML] - Every page on the internet is written in HTML. HTML tells the browser about the content in the page, and CSS tells the browser how to style it. In this track, you will learn the building blocks of HTML and CSS in order to create and style your first web page from scratch.

[|Introduction to Python] - Python is a powerful and expressive language that has very simple syntax. If you're unsure of which programming language to learn, Python is a great choice. The language is used in a variety of disciplines: application, web, and game development. Python can do it all.

//Scratch//
[|Scratch] is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. It's developed by the MIT Media Lab and is a great way of getting into computer programming. There's math, creative thinking, art and music involved in making good Scratch projects.

Want to see what you can do in Scratch - Check out the many [|Scratch projects]. Check out some of the online [|Scratch video tutorials]. [|Learn Scratch] - This site offers some really useful self-guided lessons. Open up Scratch and work your way through them in sequence.

Scratch is for story-telling:
 * Worst Day Ever
 * Day Dream

Scratch is for making interactive goodness:
 * [|Virtual Lego Builder]
 * Rapa Nui
 * Tetris 1.01

Scratch can be lots of things - it just depends on what the person sitting in front of the computer decides to do.
 * Bee Game
 * Graffiti

These are a different set of introductory lessons to Scratch - can you complete all eight?

[|Lesson One] - Motion and Sound

[|Lesson Two] - Repeating Actions

[|Lesson Three] - Playing with Colour

[|Lesson Four] - Create your own Sprites

[|Lesson Five] - Speaking and Thinking

[|Lesson Six] - Creating Image Effects

[|Lesson Seven] - Sounds, Voices and Music

[|Lesson Eight] - Creating Animations

Extras
Here are a few refreshingly sites for you to explore. Cool designs, cool content, cool ideas. Get into them, get thinking, get connecting.

[|History of the Internet in NZ] - Here's a series of videos and interviews with the people who made the internet come alive and then thrive here in NZ. Take some time to view it - and check out what was happening the year that you were born.