2009 January « Monteney Primary ICT Blog

Logo Fun: ‘Arty Maths’

January 22, 2009 at 10:33 am | In Logo | 1 Comment

We have been learning to use the Logo language to create spiral patterns. First we had to work out the angle of turn to create regular shapes e.g. a regular Octogon. Then we created a procedure to instantly create this shape.

Octogon Procedure

Once we created our procedures we incorporated them into a sequence of commands to produce our patterns.

Logo Spiral

Finally we saved our patterns as image files and opened them up in a graphics package e.g. Paint.Net or Gnu Paint and used the fill tool to create these beautiful patterns.

Graphical Modelling

January 16, 2009 at 4:05 pm | In QCA Y5 | Leave a Comment

In Year 5 we used a word processing package such as Open Office Writer or Word to create pictures (Why Not!!!).

We used the grouping facility to create individual elements from multiple elements.

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What’s The Point…

January 16, 2009 at 3:09 pm | In Animation | Leave a Comment

In Year 5 we tried to create a picture using pointillism ( tiny dots of primary colours) . A style made famous by the French painter Georges-Pierre Seurat.

Ellie

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Callum

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Simrath

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Brianna

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More Animation…

January 16, 2009 at 1:53 pm | In Animation | Leave a Comment

Found a lovely site for simple animations called Elastoplaststories sponsored by the Elastoplast Company. This animation was created by Zach in Y1 (with teacher scribing). The story boards can be printed out and used in literacy lessons etc.

Here is a link to a range of film and animations resources.