Early life in Aotearoa: The Rain Bird

 

We were learning to use polyline and curve to make a new species because the instructions said that if we were one of the first polynesians to arrive in New Zealand, what would you see instead of all the trees, bushes, and dirt. 

I found it easy to use curve to create the log and little textures inside it as well. It was easy to come up with the description with ts behaviour and how its acts. 

I found it hard to find an image online to add on to with curve and polyline because I find it hard to control mouse moving it around to create this new species.

I really enjoyed making  a gradient for the extra feathers that are on the sides and on the head of the bird because I thought that they were a great mix of colours that looked good with all the different shades of colours.

Next time I need to think about putting more effort into polylining and curving all I have added are some feathers, eyes and a beak.

Change Poem

 

We were learning to write a poem about change and what change meant to us. We had to brainstorm as many ideas as we could about change e.g: Change is friendships, climate, money, etc. There are many possible ways to show change.

I found it easy to choose the one word that sums up change in that one word fits the word CHANGE. It was easy to decide what nine ideas I put in my poem because everyone wrote down their ideas on sheets of papers that were all around the classroom.

I found it hard to decide what font I was going to choose for this poem because I like many fonts but I like the font I chose the most.

I enjoyed making a gradient for my background because I like the mix of soft pink and pastel yellow. I also found it fun to walk around the class write my ideas down for what change meant to me because I have many reasons why change is very important.

Next time I need to think about level 3 vocab in my poem because I think I could use some work on that. 

Where I learn best

 

We were learning to create a slide about where we learn best in the Room 3. Room 3 is a very big classroom and a quiet place to do your work whether you would like to focus on your work there are three places you can go to: The cubby holes. The room four work space. Also the on the mat. 

I found it easy to decide where I was going to take the selfie and who I was going to do it with. It was not challenging to create gradients for my text box and background because I love using colours on slides.

I found it hard to whether I wanted to write about one place I like working at or two. It was hard to decide where I was going to place my chromebook in room four because there wasn't many places to put my device.

I enjoyed using different fonts and colours on this slide because lots of different shades of colours to choose from for my background and text box. I liked working with my friend Milah and Holly because we had photos that were AMAZING and photos that were really BAD.

Next time I need to think about using more level three vocab in my reflection underneath my title because I think I can do much better than before.    

  

Piskel GIF

 

We were learning to use the app piskel. The app piskel helps to create sprites and GIFs. Here is a link showing you where the website is https://www.piskelapp.com/ We learned how to use rotation, reflection, and translation. A GIF is a graphics interchange format. To make a link onto your own blog post simply follow these steps:

   I found it easy to do this. Go to the website that you are wanting to link. Next, go to the top bar and there will be a code mixed up with different numbers and letters. After that, you have to highlight that code using your mouse and dragging it along the line of the code and click control c at the same time to copy the code. Upcoming, click into the tab that you were using to link whatever you wanted to link. Following after all that, click on this button here on your screen. It looks a little bit like paperclip.

Then, if you are on google slides, click on the bar and push control v to paste the link in the bar. Lastly, click "APPLY" and when you click on the image that you had linked the website to it will take you straight to it. Or if you have a blog post that you are wanting to link to when you press apply it will show up on the sentence that you were writing.

I found it hard to add all the details to the rabbit jumping around the screen because I had to click the rotation and translation button so many times that it took thirty-four slides to complete this GIF.  I found it a bit challenging to line up the bunny's head and body shape because when I was using the pen tool sometimes the lines would not be straight.

I really enjoyed choosing what I was going to draw on the GIF and how I wanted it to move around the screen. It was fun to choose the colour of the rabbit because there were so many different shades of different colours to choose from. I liked the pastel colours the most.

Next time I need to improve on making more slides to make the GIF more longer and more satisfying to watch. Maybe I could try to make my art skills better try and make the rabbit more detailed and have other people think that it looks superior.

India DLO

 

We were learning to create a DLO ( Digital Learning Object.)  A Digital Learning Object teaches people about different things virtually online. My DLO was about Neha in India. There were several choices of different children around the world. Here is a link for you to see and learn about all the struggles that some kids in the suffer. https://kidsinothercountries.org/?fbclid=IwAR2-4wSmTPh6VQ4dklwin2nSrOysH7VfUCOPpLohovMZoznx7BLekD-KXTQ. The DLO had to include audio, images from the video that we had watched and chosen, and a photo of the child that you were learning about to show which child you had chosen to learn about. I was learning to be a researcher because I found it easy to use my chromebook to find good uses for this DLO.

I found it easy to insert the link when you click on Neha it will also take you to the children around the world website with all the different videos. To link images to websites, all you need to do is: Go to the website that you are wanting to link. Next, go to the top bar and there will be a code mixed up with different numbers and letters. After that, you have to highlight that code using your mouse and dragging it along the line of the code and click control c at the same time to copy the code. Upcoming, click into the tab that you were using to link whatever you wanted to link. Following after all that, click on this button here on your screen. It looks like a paper clip.

Then, if you are on google slides, click on the bar and push control v to paste the link in the bar. Lastly, click "APPLY" and when you click on the image that you had linked the website to it will take you straight to it.

I found it hard to pause the video and take screenshots for this slide because I never knew where or when each of the topic was going to land on the video for the slide that I had created. It was challenging to move everything around to make it all fit on the slide because I thought that I had lots to put on the slide about India. I found it difficult to pick the right GIFs for the backgrounds because I wanted people to think that my work was cool and very enjoying to look at.

I really enjoyed inserting the butterfly that has the Indian flag on the wings because my teacher complimented it when she saw it. I was fun to make the background on the first slide because I liked using the gradient tool to help me make the colours of the Indian flag.

Real or fake media

 

We were learning to see if we could spot things online that were real or fake. Then we had to use Google Drawings and try to convince people that the media we created was real. We had to write a story also. The story had to be about the Google Drawing Media. 

I found it easy to pick a background because there were so many beautiful beaches to choose from. I'm delighted that there was a perfect bowl of salad for the squirrel-ostrich. I also found it easy to use the website Remove Background to remove the background to many things. Such as the lady, the ostrich, the squirrel, and the salad.

I found it hard to decide how the squirrel was going to stick on to the ostrich to make them a mutant. I also found it challenging to choose what two animals I was going to decide on either a bunny or a squirrel. It was hard to decide why the lady would come walking past.

I enjoyed getting to use Google Drawings because I don't use Google Drawings a lot.  It was very exciting to use my imagination to create the SQUIRREL- OSTRICH and how they would become friends. I adored looking at all the different beaches for the background

Next time I need to use better adjectives and verbs in my writing so it is more interesting and more exciting to read. I think I need to improve my imagination skills and think about better ways to express imagination.

My apples are stuck!

 

We were learning to write about creative explanation writing. Explanation writing is where you explain how something works or why something happens. There were three options to choose about what we will be writing about. The first option was about a kite that was stuck on the roof. The second option was about a sports ball that had popped. The last option was the one that I have written, about the apples that were on the top of the tree. Each problem had six items that we had to choose from. When we had to  decide the three items that we want to use to solve the problem that we had chosen to write about. I was being a thinker because I thought creatively to solve this problem about my apples. We had a planning sheet that we typed on so we could mostly copy and paste things on our good copy of writing.

I found it easy to decide what three items that I was going to use for my problem solving because there were quite handy and useful and different items to use to solve this problem . It was not very challenging to decide what problem I chose because I had a good idea about how I was going to solve this very different mishap.

I found it hard to choose technical words for writing because I don't think my writing was very detailed. It was very challenging to tell the owner of the spade why I had stolen the shovel had how I was let the owner know that I was taking it.

I really enjoyed choosing the title of this story because it was something very creative and chucklesome. I liked having to have a choice about what problem to choose. It was fun to write that I was going to stand on the car to get the apples down because I thought it was a insane to think like that. 

Next time I need to think better about how to think more imaginative to solve problems like this or maybe even different problems. I could possibly improve my vocabulary to make sure that it is all at level three.