Erin Bradley at Bryneven: Linking with Purple Mash

Today's Bryneven Primary School lesson returned to explore our HTML code, built in the text editor, Notepad. We engaged with 2Simple's activities that we used to feed our web pages. Bryneven's coding group looked at saving our HTML files in folders; these were called “first” and “second”. We used each of these HTML (hypertext markup language files) to link -using an image element within an anchor. Our lesson referred back to some shortcut and quick methods of our earlier lessons e.g., shift + right click. We used an animated GIF file, created in Purple Mash’s 2Animate. Then we explored the process of creating the animation file; we exported the animation to the computer's download folder. We note that the default naming convention is with the GIF extension. This animated GIF file’s address (location) was then placed in the image element — within the anchor. In the other complementing HTML file we placed another anchor- with some text. At this point, both of the files then became linked with hyperlinks. By clicking on the animated GIF file we were navigating to the other HTML file. We moved between the two -to press the point i.e., seeing the connection. This was an interesting lesson — though it held some difficulty for the younger learners. We placed the HTML code in the coding group’s blog. This posting in the block allowed learners to be able to concentrate solely on the mechanics and techniques of file location in the 'href' and 'src' properties of the anchor, as well as the image element. Mr Bradley teaches for the Gauteng Department of Education. Mr Bradley teaches at Bryneven Primary School. This is a public school in Bryanston, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Bryneven Primary has introduced coding dynamics -using Purple Mash- since 2017. https://youtu.be/trF6_ogQjUw by Erin Bradley