A Blog for John Bentley School - Wiltshire


Audio CLips
April 1, 2008, 7:08 pm
Filed under: Uncategorized

I’ve played with these clips - they will be the words you have said but not necessarily all of them and not necessarily in the right order.

Click here to see all the files

Not much (anything) here about how well you got on with scratch though ..



How did you get on today?
April 1, 2008, 4:32 pm
Filed under: Teaching and Learning

It was quite tricky to pick up the lesson today and I was disappointed not to be able to get round and look at all of the projects..

I wanted to give you a lot of time so that you could get on with building your own game but I don’t think that the large amount of time in the lesson was used well by most, perhaps you thought there was more time than there was.  I’d really welcome your thoughts.

I didn’t have any time to do the videos but I do have the voice recordings, unfortunately most of the recordings are “messing about”, I guess that leaving a mic in the class like that isn’t such a good idea!  I’ll try and get some samples here soon.



How do I get the helicopter to face the other way?
April 1, 2008, 8:59 am
Filed under: Scratch

You may notice that Scratch doesn’t have a command that allows you to turn around and face the other way.  The helecopter normally faces to the right (90)  if you <Point in direction 180> (that is point left) then you’ll find you are upside down.

The trick is to create a new costume, do into the editor and flip vertically and save.  Now when toy want to turn around you just change costume



It’s no april fool
April 1, 2008, 8:58 am
Filed under: Uncategorized

First person who comes to me and says “I’m no april fool” will get themselves a memory stick.



Sad news - Happy News
March 11, 2008, 10:22 pm
Filed under: Teaching and Learning

I’ve just found out that you have a PSHE day on Tuesday next (18th March) so there will be no ICT lesson - no Scratch.

The school is closed for your lesson after that (Easter Monday) BUT Mr McElroy has said that I can come in on April 1st (which is all fools day).  What do you say that we all wear odd socks on that day?