Tuesday, 28 February 2017

Design thinking

Today we are learning about Design Thinking

That means to...


We want to design a cool controller to hook up to the Makey Makey for our games we create. Think...
What materials will I need?

How do I want my controller to look?
How can I manage my time?
Do I want to work by myself or with a buddy?

Now we need to create a prototype...


You can use paper or Google Draw 
























Makey Makey Makin'



Today we are going be playing Flappy bird! We are going to experiment with the Makey Makey to create a keyboard to play it with. 

Click on the picture below to learn how to use Makey Makey...


Can you find things that will CONDUCT electricity to use with the Makey Makey?





Check out the code behind the Flappy Bird game, what types of scripts have been used?















Sunday, 12 February 2017

Getting Musical With Scratch

Kia ora and welcome to our IT sessions for 2017
For our first lesson we are going to use simple Scratch block code to create musical instruments. What sounds can you come up with?