Lesson video

Hello, and welcome to the final lesson of this computing systems and network unit with Oak National.

In this lesson, we're going to be exploring shared working.

For this lesson, you'll need access to a Google account, and you'll also need access to a Scratch account.

If you need help with either of those, please ask your parents or carer for assistance.

You'll need somewhere quiet, free of distractions, and a pen and a piece of paper will also be useful.

So when you're ready, let's begin.

In this lesson, you will evaluate different ways of working together online.

In doing that, you will identify ways of working together online, you'll recognise that working together on the Internet can be public or private, and finally, you will explain how the Internet enables effective collaboration.

In the previous two lessons, you have explored shared working.

You've seen how people can work together online.

Based on what you've seen and what you've done, what are your top tips for working online collaboratively? On the handout, there's some images that might help you.

Pause the video to complete your task and then resume when you're finished.

Here are the top tips we looked at in the previous lesson.

So first of all, it's really important to be kind when we're working online.

If you're kind to other people, they are much more likely to be kind to you and you're more likely to work together more effectively.

Be positive.

Tell people what they've done well and encourage them to do things even better next time.

And finally, asking questions is always a really good idea.

When you ask a question, that encourages the other person to reply.

And that dialogue, that conversation between two people, is a really good way of working together online.

You're now going to get the opportunity to contribute to a shared drawing online.

So the drawing has been started by someone else, but you're going to add to it and develop it.

And you can see the drawing you're going to add to on the right-hand side of this slide.

Once you've done something, you could then pass it on to someone else for them to develop it further.

After lots of people have worked on it, who does the drawing belong to? If you are new to Google Draw, here's a very quick demonstration of how you can use it.

And it's really, really simple.

We'll start by looking at how we can add some shapes.

So just click on these shape icon and then onto shapes.

And you can see you've got lots of different default choices, let's just choose a rectangle.

And I'm going to choose a rectangle to draw a chimney on my house.

And I'm going to send that behind the triangle, so just right-click and change the order.

So I'm going to send it to the back.

There we go.

So adding a chimney to the house, if you want to change the colour, so I can change the fill colour of the roof to red and I could add lines as well.

So we've got line tool here, so I could add a line along the bottom like that.

And once again, I'm going to put that behind the house, just like that.

Oder and send to back.

And you may have spotted that I accidentally added a second line there, which I don't want, so we can easily select and delete anything we don't want.

So just using the line and the shape tools, you can make lots and lots of changes to your drawing and have lots of fun changing the appearance of it.

There's other tools such as text boxes, which you can use as well.

So if you want to explore beyond just lines and shapes, feel free, but that will be enough to get you started.

So that's a very quick overview of Google Draw.

Now that you have the task and you've seen a demonstration of Google Draw, now is your opportunity to contribute to a shared drawing.

So add your own changes to the shared drawing.

And pause the video to complete your task and then resume again once you're finished.

If you reuse somebody else's work, like you did in the drawing activity, it's important that you give them an attribution.

And that means that you say thank you effectively for using their work and acknowledge that you've used somebody else's work.

You can see a couple of examples of this actually on this slide.

So we have some screenshots from scratch.

mit.

edu on this slide, so one here and one here.

And for both of them underneath, we have the credit for scratch.

mit.

edu.

So that's acknowledging that that content isn't something we've made; it's something we've picked up from another website.

For this activity, you're going to use Scratch.

So like you did in the drawing activity, you can reuse someone else's work in Scratch.

Use the see Inside Button in Scratch to see the blocks of a project.

You can change the blocks, but the original project won't change if you use the See Inside button.

You can find the project at ncce.

io/c56-2, that's ncce.

io/c56-2.

Pause the video to complete your task.

In Scratch, you can also remix projects.

So for this, you'll need to go back to the project page.

And instead of clicking on See Inside, click on Remix.

This creates a new version of the original project, which you can use as your own.

When you do this in Scratch, you do not have to credit the original creator, but it's good manners to do so.

So that's slightly different from when you change the drawing, where you would need to credit the original creator of the drawing.

In Scratch, you don't need to do that.

You will need to be locked into a Scratch account to complete this activity.

If you need help with that, ask your parents or carer for assistance.

Can you think of other examples of people's work being used? Is it always okay to use someone else's work? Complete the table on the handout and then we'll look at some examples where people's work is shared.

Here are three examples of where other people's work can be used by other people.

So, first of all, in music.

It's very common in music for other people's work to be sampled or for songs to be covered by other artists.

When that happens, they always have to ask for permission from the original artist, and often, they have to give them royalties or money in exchange for using their song or their words or their music.

In film, music is often used in the background to films. Again, if a film wants to use someone's music, they would need to ask for permission from the original artist.

And finally, pictures.

So if you go on any news website or look at any newspaper or magazine, you'll see there's lots of pictures on the website or in the magazine.

All of those pictures have been taken by someone and belong to someone.

So for the website or the newspaper or the magazine to use those pictures, they need to get permission from the photographer or the owner of the photograph.

Can you think of any other examples? Thank you for taking part in this lesson and this unit with Oak National.

I hope you've enjoyed completing the tasks in this lesson.

If you'd like to share some of your Scratch projects or Google Drawings, please ask your parent or carer to share them on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak.