Welcome to 2019 Tech

Welcome to 2019 Tech
We have an exciting time this term with lots of new programmes to learn.
Our topic is "Our Voices are Powerful" so we have tried to integrate the tech' and computer work to create content made by the students.

this will be over 5 weeks with a 90 minute lesson each week.......

BRING IT ON !

THE BASIC IDEA....

#1
Everyone has a Pepeha or Mihi to say this term so we thought we would create a few assignments for the students...

Using Comic Life we are going to create a comic based on their pepeha so each line in the pepeha is a segment in the comic

Each segment is going to have 2 speech bubbles - one Maori and one English
insert that - then add a picture to complete it

Sounds simple so far .......

#2
They are drawing a cartoon character of themselves.. either from scratch or using a template....
do this on A4 then outline it in felt pen
We take a photo of it to insert into their cartoon (#1) and into Crazytalk 4  (#4)

#3
Audacity - we have written the pepeha and said it out loud so now we use Audacity to record ourselves saying it - save the files as a sound file and then it goes into Crazytalk

#4
Crazytalk 4 - we need to work out how the programme works first then explore how we can use it to display the pepeha...

After exploring we worked out this assignment...

Using the cartoon they drew we took a picture and loaded it into Crazytalk 4 - set up the eyes and mouth points and then saved it
We loaded the sound file from Audacity into Crazytalk and then voice synced it to the cartoon.

Play it and the cartoon is saying their pepeha !!!!

now convert it to an avi movies and we ARE  DONE !

#5
gamefroot.com
use the gaefroot website to make a game based on their pepha...
the best way is to use their tutorial to create it

this is just a brief introduction to coding...

gamefroot is a NZ company so we are trying to support NZ companies !

we will be posting samples by the end of week 4 or 5