Digital BrainDigital Brain20082008

Digital BrainDigital Brain20082008

An exciting, new adventure!An exciting, new adventure!

What is Digital Brain?

Digital Brain

VLEProvides a class and school community

A home school link

An exciting new way to learn

The purpose of Digital Brain

• To help us, as pupils, teachers and parents to learn using a different approach.

• To broaden our learning horizon• To provide important links

between learning in school and in the home.

Objectives for today• To log onto your own digital brain

account.• To personalise the profile on your

digital brain account.• To set your password (date of birth)• To explore the Year 5 community• To send an email to a class member

Logging On• On the Nabb school homepage

you will need to select

Digital Brain Primary

Logging On• Your username will be your first

name and first letter of your surname and then holmfirthhin.kgflE.g. – gracew.holmfirthjin.kgfl

• Your password at the moment ischangeme

Create

Welcome to Digital Brain

• You will then be welcomed to Digital Brain and asked to create your account. You need to press on the Create button.

• This will then take you to the Change My Details page.

Changing your password

• On this page you need to change your password to your date of birth.

E.g. if your birthday is 29th April 2001Your date of birth would be:

290401

Change your picture• Click on the green button which allows

you to change your picture

• Click on the browse button• Go to student shared area• Year 5• Class Pictures• Find your picture and click on it and then

press the open button at the bottom.• Click save!

Change picture

Colour• Finally if you wish to change the

colour, click on another option on the page

• Now press save changes

Save changes

Year 5 Community• We all belong to the Year 5

Community along with myself, Mrs Foster and Steve

• Click at the top on Year 5 – where our photograph is.

Year 5 Community• Here you can see different options:1. Gallery2. Tests3. Calendar4. Forum5. People6. Content

Gallery• This is an area where we can show

any pictures or videos of work we have carried out in our class.

• Currently you can not access this without permission

Tests• If I wished as part of your

homework to set you a test, I could create one through my homepage and you could then answer on your digital brain at home.

Calendar• On the calendar we can choose to

add what the weather is like for the day – look at Sunday’s example

• We can also click on a date and enter any events that are happening on a certain day so that we can all be reminded

Calendar

• If we look at year 5 calendar we can scroll along each month at the top.

• Can you all add your birthday into the calendar?

Forum• This is a place where we can discuss

things that might be happening in school or within our class.

• I have currently set one up to discuss what we think about the digital brain.

• If you click on Forum – you can then click on my discussion.

• If you wish to make a comment you can press on ‘reply’ and add to the discussion taking place.

• Have a go at replying – think about the positive aspects of digital brain

People

• If you click on ‘people’ you will be able to see everyone who belongs to our community.

Personal Blog• By each person’s name there will

be either a picture of themselves or at the moment a if you press on this it will take you to any blog they might have set up.

• What is a blog?

Email• On the other side of their name is a

little envelope – this will allow you to send an email to that person.

• See if you can send me or Steve an email to let us know that you can successfully write an email on digital brain.

Content• On this page there are resources

which have been placed here by Kirklees. This could change and be something which is checked on frequently.

What have I achieved?Have you:- Changed your password?- Changed your picture?- Changed the background colour?- Added your birthday to the calendar?- Entered a response to the forum?- Sent an email?