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ICT in the International Primary Curriculum (IPC)

A wiki for pupils, teachers and parents in primary schools that use the International Primary Curriculum (IPC). This site is administered and promoted by a group of Year 5 & 6 school children. Anyone can add useful information. The idea is to create a 'one stop shop' of online resources that can be used to support all subjects and IPC topics. If you find something useful become a writer (click the sign up button) and upload the link and blurb to the appropriate page yourself. The idea is not to have endless pages of links but rather a collection of well described useful resources that we all can easily access. Ideally it would be great if every link added had the relevant IPC topic mentioned in the blurb to make searching the site very simple.

Digital story telling- using Photostory a Year 6 ICT project we have just finished. For most of the children English is not their first language- this proved to be a valuable language learning exercise which they all enjoyed- Many more here

NEW!!- a new page of lessons in Google Presenation format that cover essential ICT and IPC skills-please feel free to add your own lessons to this page.
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EXAMPLE
A unit devised for Year 5/6 children to mindmap/ storyboard/ write/illustrate and record a fairytale for younger children.

Year 5 IPC "Making the News"
(Current Affairs and the Media) -
using Youblisher- the Year 5 class made their own newspaper - -cc
Youblisher is a PDF publishing service that turns your PDF's into an online newspaper or magazine. Which can then be embedded into your blog or website.

Music Video project- the theme Technology - Year 5- A fun project that included video production /editing/ stop motion/ and much more- excellent for team building-

Circus Posters made in Year 2 in publisher for the IPC topic Circus
Covered some essential multimedia ICT skills and was lots of fun.

We haven't used powerpont for a while this idea gave the whole thing a new lease of life.

IPC The Active Planet (Earthquakes and Volcanoes)- A project created on the recent Japanese earthquake- The idea is for pupils to create a mini website using wikispaces on the recent earthquake in Japan.
http://sendai-earthquake.wikispaces.com/

IPC TOPIC_ "Money Makes the World Go Round"

A Monty Python themed animation made in Scratch for the Money and Trade IPC Topic

Stop Motion Animation by Year 5

Stop motion animation (also known as stop action animation) is the process of stringing together a series of still shots to create a movie. It can be done with clay (Wallace & Gromit and Gumby), puppets (The Nightmare Before Christmas) or anything else you can easily photograph and move around. Although you can achieve stunning results, don't be nervous! Stop motion animation is easy and fun to do with kids, even the younger ones.

Necessary tools:

-- a digital camera,

-- video editing software,

-- plenty of hard drive space to hold your photos and movie,

-- for longer movies, a place where you can record and leave the camera and set uninterrupted if you need a break,

-- optional: a tripod to keep the camera steady, adjustable lighting,

As you get started, please keep in mind the following tips:

Stop motion animation is fairly simple, but it's also time consuming. Don't expect to make a feature-length film, or even a 5-minute short, on your first attempt.
You'll want at least 10 photos for each second of film. Plan accordingly!
One of the more important rules of stop motion animation is that the camera cannot movie during shooting. Use a tripod or a solid surface where you can keep the camera stable.
Directions always say this, but read this step-by-step through once before getting started. That way, you'll avoid surprises later

A World Cup Ticket made in Paint.net by Year 4 using layers etc.

Ticket

A great idea from http://www.what2learn.com/world_cup_2010/
There is a single resource needed to deliver this activity – the PowerPoint presentation ‘Ticket.ppt’ (see link)The first slide introduces the task and requires students to decide in pairs what the ticket should look like and what is should contain. This should lead to a class discussion on this topic.

The second slide provides the main task and clarifies the features the ticket needs to include. About halfway through their working time, students should be stopped and shown the final slide – a copy of an actual ticket for a match at the tournament. Following a class discussion on this students should return to and improve their own ticket designs.

We used Paint.net for the activity as we had just been using it to create Volcano & Star Wars posters see here

SCRATCH

To teach programming at primary there are a range of resources out there- so far I've used- roamer-beebots- logo- & now we have moved on to Scratch -

This is a simple Scratch program made for the IPC topic Chocolate- by a Year 3 student- As simple looking project that covered a lot of skills- including image/sound editing- internet research -importing sprites -file management- - the list goes on- It was fun to make!

Pop Art

PopArt by Year 2- made with Paint.net- ties in nicely with a number of IPC topics , Clothes (MP1) (We had t-shirts made), Visual Representations (MP2)- for a tutorial see http://www.designandtech.com/fotoshop/tutorials/julianopie/julian_opie_tutorial.htm its basically Julian Opie Style with a Twist. We used Paint.net for some of the effects. I believe that giving students positive experiences in selecting appropriate technology tools and in applying technologies to their work supports the performance of authentic tasks and provides experiences that prepare students for the world outside of school. By authentic I mean students are using them for the same kinds of purposes and in the same ways that adults would use technology outside the school walls. I think this project is a good example. We looked at how technology has transformed many industries and how it has given the individual much more control over design. Nowadays there are many websites that offer bespoke consumer goods.

PopArt by Year 2- made with Paint.net- ties in nicely with a number of IPC topics , Clothes (MP1)
(We had t-shirts made), Visual Representations (MP2)- for a tutorial see
http://www.designandtech.com/fotoshop/tutorials/julianopie/julian_opie_tutorial.htm its basically Julian Opie
Style with a Twist. We used Paint.net for some of the effects.

I believe that giving students positive experiences in selecting appropriate technology tools and in applying technologies to their work supports the performance of authentic tasks and provides experiences that prepare students for the world outside of school. By authentic I mean students are using them for the same kinds of purposes and in the same ways that adults would use technology outside the school walls. I think this project is a good example. We looked at how technology has transformed many industries and how it has given the individual much more control over design. Nowadays there are many websites that offer bespoke consumer goods.

A Year 4 IPC topic Saving the World (Rainforests) / Habitats presentation done in Scrapblog. Scrapblog is an online mulitmedia scrapbook. it was ideally suited to our purposes as we needed to use a app that we could embed in the Student websites. Scrapblog now asks users to pay for certain images or 'stickers' as it calls them but we found a way round that by making our own png images (images with no visible background) in paint.net then uploading them to picassa.

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In class we built 3D farms using Google Sketchup to enhance the IPC topic ‘Food and Farming’.
Sketchup is a powerful, yet easy-to-learn, free computer-assisted design program (CAD) that allows for quick and easy 3D form creation. As you can see from the video, Y4 created some wonderfully detailed 3D farms in quite a short period of time. Also ties in with the IPC topics The Things People Do , Buildings (Structures) The Environment (Sustainability).

Imagine then we had a machine that could make the models we design- well its out there Reprap- RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototype. It is the practical self-copying 3D printer introduced in the video below- a self-replicating
machine. This 3D printer builds the parts up in layers of plastic. This technology already exists, but the cheapest commercial machine would cost you about €30,000. And it isn't even designed so that it can make itself.

So what the RepRap team are doing is to develop and to give away the designs for a much cheaper machine with the novel capability of being able to self-copy (material costs are about €350). That way it's accessible to small communities in the developing world as well as individuals in the developed world. Following the principles of the Free Software Movement they are distributing the RepRap machine at no cost to everyone under the GNU General Public Licence. So, if you have a RepRap machine, you can use it to make another and give that one to a friend... (RepRap) http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/apr/04/3d-printing-design

Year 4 mapping work - As part of the IPC topic explorers and adventurers we made collaborative interactive maps with customised icons in Google then inserted them into Google Earth. The maps both 2D and 3D were the embedded into our Google sites.google maps could also be used with other IPC topics such as Going for Gold (The Olympic Games), What does our World look like? (Big Geographical Picture) or even Black Gold (The Oil Industry)
Having problems embedding Google maps at the moment have a look in here instead http://sites.google.com/site/ipcexplorers/home

ICT / IPC PROJECT WORK
YEAR 6 WEB DESIGN (may take a minute to load- its worth the wait, promise)
British International School Vietnam
"Kids Guide To Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam"- created in just 10 hours by 4 girls aged 11 using drawings-photos-sounds-animations. The students really had fun making this website- the initial idea was that it should look as personal and original as possible- to achieve this they had to be convinced to draw their own navigation buttons and add as much of their own art- photos etc as possible. everything was uploaded onto www.wix.com and linked up and animated. This really was a valuable exercise combining a range of skills - eg photo editing- scanning uploading downloading, resizing adding effects, links not to mention the fantastic group work skills. Have a click around in the site its all here. Could be tied in with the IPC project Location.

Click on the about us page to find out more about the how the team worked together the and challenges that the team faced when building this site.

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Twitter Guide-

http://www.stuartridout.com/post/531538889/tips-for-new-tweeters

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