What I am proud of

In this video I showed what I am mostly proud of.

 

canva gif

 

Today we were making gifs on a website called canva. I have used canva before but not for making gifs. Next time I think I will try and make it more advanced otherwise I found this activity fun and exciting to do.

Lockdown

 Today I was working on the book I've been writing and I made a timetable. :)

Talk to future self

Today we were making videos on WeVideo/ Screencastify. I enjoyed the fact I got to add humour to it and include my friends.
 

Writing sample

 

The other day we were doing a writing sample. One thing I will do differently next time is I will use less of the same words. But here's a sneak peek of my topic. One thing I liked was the fact I could try and persuade the teachers to make it so students can pick their own topics.

Gamefroot

 

On wednesday we were continuing on our gamefroot and I have added alot more coding.

Mathletics Fractions

 Tonight I was working on my mathletics points when I noticed a common occurrence of making a mistake on adding with no common denominator. I will work on this problem by practicing at home when I have free time and trying multiple times on this quiz. Hope you have a good night or day whenever you are reading this :).

Progress of my gamefroot :)

 Today I decided to share with you the outcome so far of my gamefroot game. I hope you enjoy it and I will add the link to a blog post once I have finished it.

Gamefroot craziness

Today we were continuing our games from last week because we couldn't open marketplace. I really enjoyed this and found it quite simple. The thing that confused me the most was how to make the character turn to the left when running that way rather than doing a Michael Jackson. I fixed that problem from watching the entire tutorial video. Next time I will figure out how to do the background and make it move along with the character. Overall this activity was very fun and you should definitely try it on the gamefroot app. (Will post up the final project when its done ^^).

Kapa Haka Practice

 Today we were doing Kapa Haka practice. I liked learning how to do the actions and words. These are the words that we had to learn. I am really excited to learn more next week.

Katanuku e Katanuku e Katanuku koa Katanuku koa x2  Te tihi o Hikurangi Katanuku ahaha E kapo ki nga whetu

E kapo ki te marama E kapo ki te ata o aku raukura kua riro Haere mai Haere mai aue Haere mai Haere mai aue Ki taku hui Hi

Gamefroot

 Today we were making video games on gamefroot. I didn't get to because the marketplace isn't working but when it starts working I will post about it. Sorry..

Kaleidoscope art

 Today we were finishing our Kaleidoscope art we started on wednesday. I really enjoyed this because we got to put our names in and decide if we wanted it to be x4 x8 or x16. I decided on x16 which i think would make look even better. Next time I think I will try to do maybe some patterns rather than my name. Overall it was a really fun experience. (Example above).

Piskel Maker

 Today we were working on a piskel to later import into our Mihi Maker game (A few posts below). What I really enjoyed was seeing the finished project. Most of the time I found it challenging to draw but once I got the head shape under control the I found the rest of the body pretty easy. I decided to put the most used expression which lead to a conversation about how it was hard for my friends to figure out if I was sarcastic or not. My next steps will be to upload it to my Mihi Maker and make the main character running me. I would definitely recommend this to other students to try.  

Takaro

Today two girls from hub Mako came into Manawanui and taught us how to play takaro. Takaro is a game where you are given a card with multiple pictures and the rest will be in the middle, if you have a matching picture then you have to say the maori name for it and put it at the top of your pile and you continue doing that until you use all cards in the middle. 

Mihi Maker!

 Today we were making a game based on our pepeha. I enjoyed it because it was apart of my culture. One thing I didn't like was how I had to help my friends most of the time and got ten minutes to finish it. At the beginning I found it a little difficult but after a while I figured out what to do. Otherwise would definitely recommend this to other kids and would do it again. 

Mihi Maker

Mahi Tracker

 Last week we were working on our Class Mahi Tracker, updating it every day for the teachers so they have the information.

Creative drawing

 

Today we were assigned the task to make a drawing that only includes the tools Polyline and Curve. What I struggled with was using curve since I usually use shapes. One thing I found easy was using polyline. A thing I like was how I got to interpret something that I am passionate about.  One thing I will do differently is try a bit more on the curve to so it looks natural.

Copyright challenge

 Today we were assigned a copyright challenge and I found making the music easy and importing the audio easy. I really enjoyed letting myself be creative. Next time I will talk to my friends less. And what I found challenging was trying out a new site i'm not familiar with. 

We Video Manaiakalani

Today we were making We Videos on how to use mathletics for a new student .

-Kahungunu-

 Today we were reading the story of Kahungunu we wrote before we travelled away to Mahia for camp on a screencastify.

ANZAC Day

Anzac day is a day of remembrance for the soldiers that fought in World War 2 with allied soldiers and against the German Nazi’s. Every year for Anzac day there would be two parades being based in each city during the Dawn Parade there will be a speaker who will speak on behalf of the soldiers. And later in the day there is the Civic parade where they will let 3 shots out of a canon. Most families on this day will go out to their family members who lost their lives in war or died following the war and will lay a poppy on the grave site. In most cemeteries there is a section where soldiers are buried.  The symbol for ANZAC soldiers is a poppy. The reason it is a poppy is because there was a poppy field where the soldiers were based at one point and lots of soldiers passed there. And this is the saying said at the service: They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. 

The place that alot more soldiers passed away was ANZAC Cove in Turkey and whilst they were there alot of soldiers were waiting for the ANZAC soldiers there and started shooting them when their boats reached the sand. The cause of this incident was miscommunication and travelling to the wrong spot. The soldiers were originally meant to arrive on the other side of the island to fire at the Turks but it changed to the Turks shooting them. 

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Today for our Power play we had to write what we know about Anzac Day. All the information I included in this piece is information I was given from my Mother since my Fathers Dad fought in World War 2. 

A: Australian

N: New

Z: Zealand

A: Army

C: Corps

Profile Animation

 Profile Animating                (Click the arrows)                                                                    

In todays session and last weeks session of Manaiakalani we have been learning how to animate profiles to use on our blogs once we have finished.  Also in the session we were learning what information we should keep private and what we can share online. One thing I found mainly surprising was not to share your address on social media, not because I do but because I thought it would be common knowledge not to share those things. I haven't learnt anything new in the past two sessions because I have done these things before but I have acted upon  my feedback and feel like I made a better version than last time. And I want people to think of me as a creative person.