7.1 Lesson 3 Where I live – Adding Images

 Recap:

Last lesson we:

• evaluated a presentation – saying how it could be improved and whether it was suitable and appropriate for the target audience. (Overview – see yellow sheet)
• opened a new folder to save our presentation in. We called the folder: ‘Unit 7.1 Where I Live.’  We called our presentation…?(can you remember?). On your whiteboard write the file path for your presentation folder, e.g. My documents/…
• started to create a presentation in outline view(why did we use this view..? can you remember?)

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

In today’s lesson you will learn how to;

• Find suitable images for each slide
• Be able to alter the images
• Insert them into a presentation

STARTER – Image Cards

Grab a white board, pen and cloth.  Work in pairs. 

1. Open Starter Image Cards and decide which group or groups of people would like each image.  Choose from Teenagers / Older People / Nobody / Everybody. 
2. What makes some images appeal to different audiences?
3. What makes some images unappealing?

It is important to use powerful pictures – positive images will appeal to students and their parents e.g. smiling children, all age groups. 

Task 1 Finding Images on the Internet

Use Google Image Search to find images of your local area.  Use keywords and the + sign to narrow your search. E.g. “Shrewsbury” + “River Severn”. 

Task 2 Collecting and Saving Images for your Presentation

1. Collect and decide on one image for each of your slides.  NOTE: the maximum number of images allowed per slide is two.  Your images must appeal to all age groups. 
2. When you have found a good images, right click on it and choose Save Picture As.  Give it a name you will recognise e.g. Music Hall.  Create a new folder in your Unit 7.1 Where I Live folder.  Call this subfolder Images or Pictures.  REMEMBER to save all of your images for your presentation in here. 

Task 3 Inserting Images into your Presentation

1. Open the slide in which you want to insert the image. 
2. Choose Insert / Picture / From File.  Find the Image or Picture folder.  Find the image and click Insert.  The image will appear on your slide. 

Task 4 Editing images

• Crop

To cut unwanted areas off an image, open the Picture toolbar (View / Toolbars / Picture) Select the picture and choose the crop tool.  Click and drag on the picture’s selection handles to cut off the bit you don’t want.  To come out of Crop mode, click on the page away from the image. 

• Resize

To make a picture bigger or smaller, select the picture and click and drag on a corner selection handle.  IMPORTANT if you don’t use the corner handles you will distort the image!

2 *’s and a wish (yellow sheet)

We are going to show our slide show to others in the class and we are going to provide  constructive criticisms – share your thoughts on the yellow sheet, but be mindful of their feelings.  Choose 2 things that you like (2 *’s)  e.g. What images do you like?  Tactfully suggest one improvement! (1 wish)

Task 5 (when you have finished inserting images)

What ever your personal preference for colour, font, etc, it is important that your presentation has “consistency” – the same fonts and background throughout the document to make it clear, easy to read and professional looking. 

The key purpose of adding text to your presentation is to convince people that your town is a great place to live – be persuasive.  REMEMBER: your text needs to appeal to all of the family! 

1. To add text to a slide, click into the text box and start typing. 
2. To add a text box to a slide, click on the text box icon, click on the slide where you want the text box to be and start typing. 

You should not use more than two fonts in your presentation.  Add interest by using BOLD, ITALIC and UNDERLINE. 

1. To add further effects to text, chose Format / Font.  

Do not get carried away adding text.  The GOLDEN RULE is no more than 5 lines of text with no more than 6 words per line – that’s 30 words – be concise. 

Recap:

Today we started to select and insert images;

say 3 things we learned (type this up in word) OR recap working in pairs as a critical friend.

WEEK 4 – 22^nd September

9.1 Lesson 4 Mayhem Manor: Main Routines – Sensors and Safety

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

In today’s lesson you will learn how to;

• Understand the use of sensors in a system. 
• Identify safety issues and possible ICT solutions. 
• Create a program and add a safety feature. 

Starter – Automatic Door Flowchart. 

1. Watch the presentation Sensors and Flowcharts (Reso4a) – slides 1 – 7. 
2. Open the Automatic Door Flowchart (Reso4b).  Save this into your Unit 9.1 Mayhem Manor folder.  Add your name to the NAME dialogue box.  Work in pairs.  Arrange the flowchart symbols to build a working program to control an automatic door.  Add lines or arrows to show the order in which each instruction is carried out.  Then add loops to show how the system repeats, or goes back to check something.  You will need to add your own lines or arrows to do this.  REMEMBER: Your door must be safe, and not trap anyone in it! 
3. Watch the presentation Sensors and Flowcharts (Reso4a) – slide 8. 

• What is the problem with this solution? 
• How could you change it?

(HINT: You must make sure that your program has a safety feature. 

1. Watch the presentation Sensors and Flowcharts (Reso4a) – slide 9. 

• Compare your solution to the one shown on slide 9. 

Task 1 Mind Map Safety Issues. 

Grab a white board, pen and cloth.  Work in pairs.  On your white boards sketch a mind map of safety issues relating to a big wheel.  Think about fairground rides you have been on to help you think of ideas.  Expand your mind map to include possible solutions to each problem. 

Task 2 Controlling the Movement of the Wheel. 

Open Flowol.  Open Big Wheel Mimic. 

• Which elements of this mimic can be controlled? 
• Which could be used to increase safety? 
• What are these elements named? 

REMEMBER: an input puts something into the system – in this case it tells the wheel whether to move or not. 

HINT:  There are two components in the mimic that are essential for controlling the movement of the wheel, and one that is needed for safety. 

Task 3 Planning the Wheel Movement. 

Open the Wheel Movement Design Sheet (Reso3b).  Save this into your Unit 9.1 Mayhem Manor folder.  Add your name to the NAME dialogue box.  Work in pairs.  Write the instructions that will control the wheel.  REMEMBER: Input 2 is a switch that turns the ride on and that input 3 (gate) must be closed before the wheel will start turning (Mot A). 

Task 4 Create the Movement Program

Open Flowol.  Open your Lights Program.  Create the new Movement Program on the same page, next to the lights program.  Don’t add the safety feature yet. 

Task 5 Adding a Safety Feature

You should now have a program that allows you to make the wheel turn by clicking on Input 2 on the Big Wheel Mimic (Input 1 controls the lights).  When you click Input 2 off, the wheel should stop turning. 

The gate is a safety element in the Big Wheel Mimic.  You need your program to tell the wheel to move ONLY if both Input 2 and Input 3 (the gate) are on.  If one of these components is switched off, the wheel should stop moving. 

To add the gate safety feature, you will need to insert a new symbol into the flowchart.  Click on the symbol you want to add on the left-hand toolbar, and then click on your flowchart in the place where you want to add the symbol.  Use the grey prompt box to program it.  

You will need to draw new lines to connect the symbols together.  To remove lines or boxes use the Edit tool, then click on the line or symbol you want to remove.  Finally, click on the Erase tool. 

There is more than one safe solution to include the gate input.

Task 6 Annotating your Flowcharts. 

To annotate programs, use the Add Label tool.  Annotate each process box and any loops to explain what each part of the program is doing. 

TEST YOURSELF

I am going to divide you into four or five teams.  Each team will have a copy off the quiz.  Answer the questions for ROUND 1.  Swap sheets with another team to mark your answers.  Swap back.  Answer the questions for ROUND 2.  Swap sheets with another team to mark your answers.  Swap back.  Answer the questions for ROUND 3.  Swap sheets with another team to mark your answers.  Swap back.  Answer the tie break question.  Swap sheets with another team to mark your answers.  Swap back. 

 EXTENDED TASK

Continue the competitor research extended task that you were given.