In the google draw sea adventure we had to follow the instructions to learn about google drawings.
This is what i made after i completed the challenge
This was a very fun exercise and I enjoyed it
Tuesday, 8 October 2019
Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Tuesday, 9 April 2019
Music
1. What sort of music do you like? (Add YES in brackets)
• Pop?
• Rock?
• Classical?
• Country?
• Alternative?
• Jazz?
• Dance?
• Hip hop or rap?
2. REMEMBER: Most music is protected by copyright. So you can’t use it for your own digital projects without permission or paying for a special license.
3. Music Do’s and Don’ts4. Places to find free-to-use music for projects
1) Dig CC Mixter http://dig.ccmixter.org/
offers thousands of hours of free music. The music on this site has different Creative Commons licenses so you need to check whether you need to attribute the music or not (attribute means saying who made the music and where it’s from etc).
2) BBC has a lot of sound effects http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/
3) YouTube has an audio library https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music
4) Other sites: http://bit.ly/2In4dvl
5) Musopen https://musopen.org/music/
5. Make some music with Google song make
Google’s Song Maker https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/
Play around with it to make a tune and then click Save in the bottom right-hand corner.
Next, you can copy the embed code. Another option is to copy the link to your song if you don’t want it embedded in your post.
In your blog post, go to Add Media > Insert Embed Code
Paste your embed code and press Insert Into Post
• Pop?
• Rock?
• Classical?
• Country?
• Alternative?
• Jazz?
• Dance?
• Hip hop or rap?
2. REMEMBER: Most music is protected by copyright. So you can’t use it for your own digital projects without permission or paying for a special license.
3. Music Do’s and Don’ts4. Places to find free-to-use music for projects
1) Dig CC Mixter http://dig.ccmixter.org/
offers thousands of hours of free music. The music on this site has different Creative Commons licenses so you need to check whether you need to attribute the music or not (attribute means saying who made the music and where it’s from etc).
2) BBC has a lot of sound effects http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/
3) YouTube has an audio library https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music
4) Other sites: http://bit.ly/2In4dvl
5) Musopen https://musopen.org/music/
5. Make some music with Google song make
Google’s Song Maker https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/
Play around with it to make a tune and then click Save in the bottom right-hand corner.
Next, you can copy the embed code. Another option is to copy the link to your song if you don’t want it embedded in your post.
In your blog post, go to Add Media > Insert Embed Code
Paste your embed code and press Insert Into Post
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Tuesday, 5 March 2019
Getting started with the March blogging challenge
Today we are starting the Student Blogging Challenge week 1.
So far there are nearly 800 individual students and 115 classes registered. The participants represent 25 countries and 6 continents.
Our tasks for today are to create an About Me page and put information in it, add an avatar, visit another blog and add a comment.
This symballoo has some information about avatars, but we are rather going to use www.cartoonify.de
Add code
We must remember not to yap our yappy and give out personal information.
We must also write good comments on other people’s blogs.
Hello my name is…
I am from Cape Town in South Africa.
I like…
Please visit my blog
So far there are nearly 800 individual students and 115 classes registered. The participants represent 25 countries and 6 continents.
Our tasks for today are to create an About Me page and put information in it, add an avatar, visit another blog and add a comment.
This symballoo has some information about avatars, but we are rather going to use www.cartoonify.de
Add code
We must remember not to yap our yappy and give out personal information.
We must also write good comments on other people’s blogs.
Hello my name is…
I am from Cape Town in South Africa.
I like…
Please visit my blog
Tuesday, 19 February 2019
Tuesday, 9 October 2018
Tuesday, 21 August 2018
Digital storytelling project - add narration to a story
This is part of Challenge #3: Become a STORY NARRATOR WHIZZ. We turned our stories into videos with narration today using a Chrome extension called Screencastify. First we installed the Chrome extension, Screencastify, and then we practised narrating our stories. The extension saves them in our Google Drive. Here is mine:
My digital story - The little girl and her flowerpot
This story is part of Challenge #2: Become a STORY WHIZZ KID. We used stories from the African Storybook website (https://www.africanstorybook.org/) that are free to reuse and change completely, and we recreated them. We kept the art. We did these in Google Slides. Here is mine:
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