Hello! We are Francesca and Martina, today we are doing a blog that is going to be a little different than the other ones.
Last two Informatic class we used a new method, in this a web page, to learn.It is called Khan Academy. Khan Academy is a educational website that contains free videos tutorials and interactive exercises.You can register as a student, a teacher or as a parent. This gives you different control over the things. For example: a teacher can create something that is called lesson, see the progress of the students and how much they spent working in a certain period of time.You also earn points every time you finish a chapter from the lesson. In this post we want to show you my progress on the web site and give you a resumed information about the topics that our lesson contains.
You are going to learn how to use the language of JavaScript, doing drawings with different codes, and the library ProcessingJS.
(Khan Academy Logo taken from Wikipedia)
Our first challenge after the first tutorials was drawing a simple snowman:
(Martu’s work on “Challenge: Simple snowman”)
This one was our first challenge and as you can see they gave us a little help with the first codes and also corrections to make our work better.On the right corner
Our first challenge after the first tutorials was drawing a simple snowman, and these are our results!
(Fran’s work on “Challenge:Simple snowman”)
But before starting with the project, we watched one of the tutorials, where we got explained how to do it. Without this explanation it would have been impossible for us to achieve the challenge on our own. This video was not only very informative, it was short and very easy to understand. We highly recommend you to watch the tutorials in the Khan Academy page and not for example in Youtube, because you don’t get points if you watch it in another platform.
And points are very important so that your teacher can know how much do you work ;)
As you can see in each lesson they tell you how many points you win!
Points are also very important for YOU to see your progress and how are you going with the lesson in general and they also motivate you to continue.
Tutorials
In reference to the videos that give you the information to complete the challenges, we think they are great.They explain you in a very short time basic concepts that you need to know in a very simple way.
You can always work on your projects any time you want and you can always achieve goals in your lessons.We had three very important projects, one we had to do a “Super Snowman”, the second one was doing a wild animal and last but not least doing a self portrait.
We both think the best project or challenge was the one with wild animals because we could put lots of details and also use the animal we liked the most!
These projects take a little bit more of time than the others but they are worth it because there are amazing results!
(Martu’s “Wild animal” project)
A little bit about the Web Page:
In the next paragraphs we are going to tell you what means what on the start page and also for what can you actually use Khan Academy? For this last thing we are going to leave you a video from: Khan Academy!!
(Screenshot about: what do we see on the home page)
Here we leave you the the video from Khan Academy so that you can understand for what to use this useful and awesome website.
If you cant play the video please try with the following link:
If you cant play the video please try with the following link:
So that is all we have for you guys today! We hope you liked it and helped you.Until next time!!
Fran and Martu
Fran and Martu
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