A new start..also known as "WHAT HAVE I DONE!!!?????"

So back into the swing of things, day 6 of school (although it feels like week 6!) and our digital classroom is all go! To be honest it is incredibly manic, the children are coping well and they are picking things up quickly which helps as I find myself going at full speed and there has been no easing in period.  At this stage I can see that my work load is going to be fairly heavy until the class becomes used to using laptops and ICT more and more. Luckily most of them have a good grounding in the basics! Here are a couple of examples of what we are doing so far.

After reading The Cave of the One Eyed Giant and analysing the character of the Cyclops the children made up a wanted poster using comiclife and photobooth. To begin with Children used the Mirror effect on Photobooth to create a photo of themselves as the cyclops, after a few attempts the children were able to line themselves up and make one eye! They then sent the photo to the student disk where I deleted the background using photoshop (I think it's a bit early in the term to get the kids on photoshop!) They then went to kidpix to find an environment for their cyclops to stand in front of, dark forest, cave etc. After screen clipping the background they then layout all the elements on comiclife and finally added their cyclops!

Here are a few of the hideous creations!