Scratch Project - America's Cup

Try "remixing" this 2 player America's cup scratch game to improve it.

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/387598234

Race around Auckland's Harbour using the arrow keys and A S D W keys (for up, down and sideways) to move the foiling AC75 monohull race boats of Emirates Team NZ (Red) and Italy's Luna Rosa Prada Pirelli Team (Yellow) around the 6-course markers.

Scratch Month is Coming! REMIX

Here is a fun Remix to get you ready for Scratch's Birthday Month 🎂😸🎈🎈🎈🎈

From the Scratch Team:

This year, to celebrate Scratch’s birthday, 

we are going beyond Scratch Day and 

will be celebrating throughout the entire month of May! 

We will be sharing new activities you can participate in each week. 

The first activities start next Monday, May 4th, 2020 and will be featured on the home page in the “studios” row. We hope you’ll join us! 

Original Project

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/389457610

My Remix: 

Press space or tap the screen, if on mobile, to move through the project. 
Please be sure to remix to add yourself dancing with me in anticipation of Scratch Month!

Meow! =^..^=

This week’s Code Break activities

I received this update today from code.org. The Code Break activities look great and you don't have to participate live, although this would be fun to try out. I'm planning to get up early next week an join a session, let's get New Zealand on the Code.org map! Go to https://code.org/break

We hope you enjoyed this week’s Code Break with Keegan-Michael Key and Vint Cerf.
As always, you can find previous episodes and activities on our website (Episode 6 will be listed tomorrow morning).

This week’s activities include creating your own protocols for sending messages 
and building your own simple websites:

• Code Break Ep. 6 Activities for Younger Students (under 13)
• Code Break Ep. 6 Activities for Ages 13+ (login required)

  

No computer at home?
Use your mobile device to watch this series of very short videos to learn How the Internet Works, 

starring Vint Cerf, to go deeper into what we learned.

No screen-time?
Check out this week's Activity Guide and Challenge worksheets. 

Students can practice sending their own images to family or friends, and then create a new protocol

 to send numbers or letters.

• Protocol Practice - Activity Guide
• Protocol Challenge

Join us live on camera next week
If you’d like a chance to share your code creations on next week’s episode, make sure to share your 

websites or pictures of you using your message sending devices with us! 

Post your project on Twitter using #CodeBreak (or email it to us at codebreaktech@code.org).

Next week’s Code Break
Don’t forget to add Code Break to your calendar, and tune in next Wednesday. 

Please spread the word about Code Break by sending this email to other parents or teachers, 

or post on Facebook and share on Twitter using the hashtag #CodeBreak.

Thank you again for your support as together we build the world’s largest live interactive classroom. 

See you next week!

Hadi Partovi, 
Code.org

Online Safety Tips for Parents

As we move into Level 3, many students will remain at home and continue with Distance Learning.
We have put together some survival tips for families to help out with digital learning at home.

Distance Learning tips from your school: 

• Be involved in your child’s online activities. 

• Ask questions and sit alongside younger children when they are doing live activities like video conferencing or other forms of social media.

• Keep devices to family spaces like the kitchen or lounge if possible, so the screen is visible to you. 

• If children are doing online video calls from a bedroom or office make sure everyone knows they are online. This will protect your family’s privacy as well as allow you to monitor your child. 

• Keep track of how much time your children spend online during the day. Children should be taking regular breaks from their screens as they would at school. The learning programme should be a mixture of online and unplugged activities. 

Be aware that most social networking sites have a minimum age for users aged 13 years and over. 
You may need to monitor your child's activity on such sites. 

For more tips, NetSafe offers great advice. Take a look at 7 Steps for Whanau.
This is a fully comprehensive plan for you and your family.

More recently NetSafe has published - The best online safety tips for lockdown,
and this is also worth reading over.

Contact NetSafe: 

If you’re concerned about the immediate safety of you or someone else, please call 111.
If you want help or expert incident advice, you can contact us.
Our service is free, non-judgemental and available seven days a week.
Email help@netsafe.org.nz
Call toll-free on 0508 NETSAFE (0508 638 723)
Online report at netsafe.org.nz/report
Text ‘Netsafe’ to 4282

Filtering Unwanted Content

Do you have filtering of your internet at home? 
If you are not sure, you can check with your internet service provider eg. Spark.
If the answer is no, then now would be a good time because Network 4 Learning (N4L)
which is your child’s school filtering company and the Ministry of Education is offering
filtering in your home for free. It’s called Switch on Safety.
Please follow the above link to find out more.

An easy alternative for students using Chromebooks would be a free extension called TinyFilter. TinyFilter is a light-weight web content filtering application which monitors browser activities and blocks inappropriate or offensive content.

TinyFilter also provides a password to unlock the filtering function. Click here to watch how to install and set up TinyFilter.

Here is a link to the Google Doc, you are welcome to make a copy and modify for your school.
Here is a link to PDF Copy.