Design a kid’s book

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Ms Farrell

Write a story for a young child (perhaps a child you know?)

Think about who the main character is – maybe it can be an adventure of a toy somewhere?

Write the story and draw a storyboard to plan how your book will look.

Take photos or create graphics for the pages.

Use the vector editor in aviary.com to alter your text to make it more fun.

Use Blurb.com software to create your book and get an online version of your book that can put onto a website or blog. You could even buy your book to get a copy you can read to any young children you know.

Design a Scratch game with a controller

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Ms Farrell

Plan a Scratch game using a Lego WeDo tilt sensor (which can be used to move a character) and a light sensor (which can be used as a button)

Learn to code

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Ms Farrell

Make your New Year’s resolution learning to code. Sign up on Code Year to get a new interactive programming lesson sent to you each week and you’ll be building apps and web sites before you know it.

Code Year uses Codecademy. Codecademy helps you learn Javascript, HTML and CSS and earn badges and points along the way!

Create a film character

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Ms Farrell

Create a character for a film. Think about if they are a good or bad character? What do they look like? What do they like and dislike? How will they move and talk and sit? What is their name? What will they wear?

Have a look at this character generator for ideas

Draw your character.

Design a level

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Ms Farrell

Design the background for a level of a platform game. Think about where the sprite will start and end. What obstacles will the player overcome in the level?

Create a computer game character

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Ms Farrell

Create a character for a computer game. Think about if they are a good or bad character? What do they look like? How will they move? What is their name?

Have a look at this list of the 50 Greatest Video Game Characters for ideas

Draw your character.

Create a soundtrack

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Ms Farrell

Open up Firefox or Chrome (not Internet Explorer)

Go to Aviary.com then select Advanced tools and Music Creator.

Alternatively go to www.clubcreate.com Remix Studio (Thanks Lewin!)

Make your soundtrack (and make it better than mine!)

Plan a film

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Ms Farrell

Plan out a random film:

Select two objects that you can see in the room.
Type five genres into the fruit machine and have it select one for you. Alternatively you could use the Sub-genre Generator
Get a name for your film by using the B-Movie Generator or the Random Movie Title Generator.
You could use a Plot Generator too if you want.
You can choose your main character by using the Name Generator or the Fake Name Generator.

Now that you have some elements for your film, write the plot for your film. Try to write the script and storyboard a scene from your random film.

Finished Jumpman? Try a different game!

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Ms Farrell

Have you finished your Jumpman game? Have you tried tweaking how many points you get at the start or tried making Jumpman jump higher?

If so, then why not try to use the skills and code you’ve learned with Jumpman to make a different game?

Instead of jumpman skateboarding he could be scuba-diving and avoiding sharks….

…Or Jumpman could be in a plane avoiding storm clouds…

…Or a hot air balloon avoiding pointy flying objects…

…or a tank avoiding mines…

…or something else completely different!

Create a poster

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Ms Farrell

There are lousy posters up in the room promoting this Challenges website. Can you make better posters?

The text could be similar:

Finished all of your Digital Media Computing class work??

Try an EXTRA CHALLENGE!!

Go to bit.ly/dmcchallenges
to accept the challenge

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Design a kid’s book

Design a Scratch game with a controller

Learn to code

Create a film character

Design a level

Create a computer game character

Create a soundtrack

Plan a film

Finished Jumpman? Try a different game!

Create a poster