Just 2 Easy have announce not one but two updates to their popular suite of tools.
The first update is to JIT: Junior Infant Toolkit, part of the Just2easy Toolsuite which has a range of digital tools to help introduce basic computing skills such as word processing, animation, graphing, coding and digital publishing. The online infant toolkit allows the following features – all linked via the LGfL USO log in:
- Word processing
- Animation
- Graphing
- Painting
- Pictogram
- Turtle control
- Mix of all the above into an online document
We are really excited to say that this popular program has had some new features added!
Pupils can now paint or fill using textures as well as solid colours, the colour picker and pen sizing have all been improved and an eraser has also been added. You can see these new features in the picture below.
Speech bubbles and text can now be added to painting or animations, vastly improving the learning possibilities, enabling story boards to be created across a range of curriculum subjects. A new stamp feature takes the creativity on to new levels, you now have the ability to not only create your own stamps but these are then all saved in a new My Stamps area and these can then be used across the JIT progam.
Internet search has also been added to the JIT program - this is a safe search with copyright filters in place.
You can see all the features in action by watching the short video below
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The second update is to Visual part of j2Code, adding a new sprite in visual is now even easier, 3 tabs have been added and you can choose from my pictures (pictures stored within your own files on j2e), shared files any pictures that have been shared with you and a web search. Using the web search you can either search for all images, faces, pictures and clip art, once you have search for an image you can then set it as your background, making it easier to add backgrounds into visual.
If adding a new sprite from clip art, there are a new set of commands with added directions so that you can set the direction you want the sprite to move.
The video below explains the new added improvements:
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We would love to hear what you think of these new features or if you have any examples that you would like to share with us on how you have made use of the new features via our Twitter or Facebook pages.