Mind mapping for planning

This week in ICT club we all got VERY excited about a film we will make to enter a competition...we shared our ideas and then got into groups to make mind maps using http://www.bubbl.us/

Here are a couple of our mind maps we made...stay tuned for our film too!!

Ellie, Daisy and Henry's group



Jamie, Louis and Ahnaf's group



Top Trumps

We have been looking at other packs of this game as we decide how we want our "Whitehill Pets past and present - TOP TRUMPS" to look.  We love animals at our school and really thought it would be a great idea to see them all together, those we have loved and that are no longer with us.  We have lots at the moment and they are always popular,  for all those children just started in year 3, we thought they would like to see JUST how many pets there have been here!

Top Trumps cards

Planning with Primary Pad!

Today was our first club session, we started with everyone sharing which ICT activity they either really enjoyed or as yet hadnt had a chance to do at Whitehill Junior School. Then Mrs Cooper said we are going to make our own set of Top Trumps cards. As we are first doing this as a whole club activity, we needed to decide what our card set would be, and the categories. We found a fun way to do this by logging onto a web page that Mrs Cooper had set up using Primarypad

Primary pad is a great free tool, that allows a group of people to contribute LIVE to one document. So instead of writing all our ideas down on paper and then someone typing it into word, we can all input into our shared idea. What's more Mrs Cooper can see who contributed what, as you sign into the webpage, so we are sure that everyone has played a part in the planning of our first new project. We can export the pad to a word document to each follow up on our next stage.

Check back for more updates and we hope your new term is going great!