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TECHNOLOGY!

 

We want to share all our experiences in class

 

 

Technology

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bee Bots - First class

First Class in our school were given Bee-Bots to teach them the very VERY VERY  basics of programming. If you don't already know what a Bee-Bot is I will give you a short paragraph explaining them but for more information you can visit the Bee-Bot Website. Bee bots are little robots in the shape of a bee.

The way you program a Bee-Bot is by pressing the buttons on top of it to make it move. For example if you press forward once it will move forward once. It can make 40 movements in one go. To make it go you press the go button and it will do the steps that you programmed into it. So when first class got their hands on these they had a lot of fun with them.

By telling the machines how to move the kids in first class learned the basics of coding who knows maybe one day they'll be learning a coding language.








     

Making A Blog System

First of all we created a blog with the website called blogger.com and then we designed it by using bloggers built-in functions to add themes gadgets and fonts. We also had colours that we needed to incorporate into the blogs maths was red, science was yellow, technology was green and engineering was blue. There was 7 six class students that took part in this activity.

Here is a picture of a blog being made:

After a week of making the blogs, posting on them and making the web-page to get to the blogs we have finally made our blogs.
For more information on web-page making please stay tuned for another post on that topic coming soon.

Making a web-page

To make a web-page we used a free program called sea-monkey. You can get sea-monkey by clicking this LINK. Its pretty limited however it got the job done.
First we needed to make some buttons to direct people to our blogs. To do that we used a nifty little website called dabuttonfactory.com. This website gave us the images to use for the buttons however, they still did not work. So we programmed them using sea-monkeys built-in html editor to make the buttons take us the correct web-page. After all of this we had it working but it was missing some aesthetics. So we used pixlr.com's awesome photo editor to make a banner for a first attempt at using it i'd say it turned out pretty good so we added it to the web-page and after some more troubleshooting, redesigns and headaches we were ready to use it for the school website!