ICT Blog

Have a look at this animation about safe surfing!

Almost 40 countries will participate in the fourth edition of Safer Internet Day (SID) which this year takes place on 6 February.

The event is organised by European Schoolnet….read more

Students at the BSA will be having lessons and activities about Internet Safety.

Year Six have already been introduced to the CyberCafe Website.

Year 8 had the task of researching how search engines work for homework. In their ICT lesson they then had to present this information for a younger audience (Year 6 or 7). Here are some examples of their work (more to follow….).

Nick`s Presentation Natalie’s presentation Emily’s presentation

Priscille’s presentation Tom’s presentation Lance’s presentation

Dyonne’s presentation Nina’s presentation Takahiro’s presentation

Oskar’s presentation Alexander’s presentation Lars’ presentation

Doris’s presentation Joey’s presentation Maris’s presentation

Mohammed’s presentation

We are beginning work on CSS.

What are Cascading Style Sheets?

For more information click here

To start the work we looked at the skill of making template in MSWord, to apply to the same text.  We then moved on to creating webpages and making and attaching CSS files to give the pages different styles.

Here is Natasha’s and Jung Hwa’s work on Word.

In Y7 we have been talking about `Life Changes`- situations in our life where we have had to cope with changes.

We created life maps using publisher. Here are some of our ‘life maps’.

Sasha Anna M Victoria Jake

Adelaide Laura Yu-Jung Calum

Year 7 had a task to design a set of 3 leaflets about 3 of their subjects at Year 7. They were designed with a younger audience in mind.

The leaflet had to have a ‘corporate image’. The same look going through each of the 3 leaflets.

You can see some of their designs here -

Laura’s_leaflets AnnaM’s_leaflets Dilruba’s_leaflets Sasha’s_leaflets Calum’s_leaflets

Pandora radio is like having your own personal DJ.  You can select the type of music you want to listen to, or an artist you like the sound of, and pandora will select similar tracks to the sounds that you want.  You can even fine tune it by saying if you like the song or not.

Try it and let me know what you think!

I have been reading some articles about Independent Thinking and really like the work of Ian Gilbert. He has been using THUNKS to promote independent thinking. A thunk is a question that promotes thinking and has no right or wrong answer. Here are a few examples… Can you post your thoughts on them? Can you post some more thunks?

1. Is there more future or past?
2. If I lose my memory am I the same person?
3. What does the back of a rainbow look like?

Mrs Mulhall

This is a great tool to see who is looking at your blog.

I am in the process of creating a page for video tutorials.  I`ll add more soon.  If there is a specific skill in wordpress that you think would be useful as a video, let me know.