8 July 2022
So time has taken off again and we are still posting
Thursday, July 7, 2022
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
2020 Tech - keep re visiting as we post more work
We had some technical difficulties with new server installs but its all fixed again
Our Google slideshows and classroom links were changed so lets start again with new links
We have linked to the Google Classrooms and to some of the Assignments
Covid 19 Response
Bedroom to Classroom
Minecraft Challenge
Part of the lockdown tech' challenge for Earth Day
Makerspace Term 2
We are researching, designing and making sandpit diggers for the juniors
The overalls are all part of the uniform !
Photoshop Project
we got this idea from Adobe and decided to expand on it more - and the results were outstanding..
when we return to school we will post these up... Brilliant work !!
Our Google slideshows and classroom links were changed so lets start again with new links
We have linked to the Google Classrooms and to some of the Assignments
Covid 19 Response
Bedroom to Classroom
Minecraft Challenge
Part of the lockdown tech' challenge for Earth Day
Makerspace Term 2
We are researching, designing and making sandpit diggers for the juniors
The overalls are all part of the uniform !
Photoshop Project
we got this idea from Adobe and decided to expand on it more - and the results were outstanding..
when we return to school we will post these up... Brilliant work !!
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Term 4 2019
This term it is all about looking after ones self - health and well being...
The challenge was to work out a good "tech" slant to it... and as usual we came up with a good one !
It fits well with "hard tech" but is not WOOD
It's CONCRETE !
hard enough for you ! haha !
We are currently looking at a happy place, stress and nerves and a de stress method !
Now we are looking at makiong gifts for 5 people we know - with the stipulation its made by hand !
The we looked at the criteria for the project - the materials we will use
water sand and cement !
now they go away and research what could be made with these materials as a craft / gift possibility !
Good luck !
more next week.....
The challenge was to work out a good "tech" slant to it... and as usual we came up with a good one !
It fits well with "hard tech" but is not WOOD
It's CONCRETE !
hard enough for you ! haha !
We are currently looking at a happy place, stress and nerves and a de stress method !
Now we are looking at makiong gifts for 5 people we know - with the stipulation its made by hand !
The we looked at the criteria for the project - the materials we will use
water sand and cement !
now they go away and research what could be made with these materials as a craft / gift possibility !
Good luck !
more next week.....
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Perception Neuron and iClone
Imagine "Lord of the Rings" - remember Golim - how the digital character moved round - it was controlled by an actor in a "suit"
"incredible technology"
Now what about this - we have a "suit" too - and its got so much potential - we have spent last term "playing with it" and getting to know the suit - the programme and then Iclone 7 as well....
This term we have had some incredible success and we got it going - thats a milestone !
A pictures worth a 100 words - watch this and see the excitement in the boys voices......
"incredible technology"
Now what about this - we have a "suit" too - and its got so much potential - we have spent last term "playing with it" and getting to know the suit - the programme and then Iclone 7 as well....
This term we have had some incredible success and we got it going - thats a milestone !
A pictures worth a 100 words - watch this and see the excitement in the boys voices......
...... now that has possibilities !!!!
We are going to partner this with character creator so even better !
there's lots of just in time learning going on right now....
Friday, August 16, 2019
STEAM Lessons with Chinese Students
August 12-16 saw 29 Chinese students visit MVS to complete a week long course on their STEAM Water Turbine lessons with students at MVS
Mr Gover was away so Mrs Sutton stepped in and completed the 5 lessons for him.
Mr Gover said he was extremely jealous he missed out on the lesson but Mrs Sutton - Room 17 students and the 29 chinese students all worked so hard during the week to complete the design and prototypes
Here are a series of photos of the week
Monday was getting to know each other with the first stages of planning underway
Thursday was the day we saw it all come together - all the planning, the discussion, the prototyping in cardboard helped make the final prototype come to being.....we got to glue it together and it started to come together....
Mr Gover was away so Mrs Sutton stepped in and completed the 5 lessons for him.
Mr Gover said he was extremely jealous he missed out on the lesson but Mrs Sutton - Room 17 students and the 29 chinese students all worked so hard during the week to complete the design and prototypes
Here are a series of photos of the week
Monday was getting to know each other with the first stages of planning underway
Tuesday and Wednesday were all about the research, planning, design and most importantly getting the measurements right - measure twice cut one was the motto as we didnt have endless supplies of materials
Thursday was the day we saw it all come together - all the planning, the discussion, the prototyping in cardboard helped make the final prototype come to being.....we got to glue it together and it started to come together....
Friday 3:00 and the day was over but for most groups they didnt get it all completed ... probbly a time issue but not because we wasted time - more because we just had so much to do and not enough time... but the results were brilliant !
we were so proud of what we had achieved and there was more to do. Our Chinese students had to go but Room 17 will truck on next week and finish the water turbines off and send a video to the Chinese students when they have finished
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Term 3 Posts
We will put all the details here so keep coming back to this page for the general stuff - extras will be separate posts
Term 2 posts
We will put all the details here so keep coming back to this page for the general stuff - extras will be separate posts
Monday, March 11, 2019
Dr Amanda, William and the Blood Box
This is a 3 week catch up on whats been going on behind the scenes ...
We are on "Round 2" of the "blood box" and William has made it his mission to help improve the 2018 Blood Box"
He has sent Amanda a video as an introduction and a plan of attack for the 2019 model
link here.......... William to Dr Amanda
So far William has re designed the box to a more streamlined version and adapted the name by making it an insert/stamp like motif... Dr Amanda commented that the old one would have blood etc in it and it was hard to clean
So Williams solution was to fill the lettering "holes" with resin to make it flat while still having the Marina View School name visible...
at this stage we have sent it back to Amanda for a review and feedback
11-3-19
Dr Amanda has sent back a reply via video
12-3-19
William will review the video then we can have a discussion on the next step
We are on "Round 2" of the "blood box" and William has made it his mission to help improve the 2018 Blood Box"
He has sent Amanda a video as an introduction and a plan of attack for the 2019 model
link here.......... William to Dr Amanda
So far William has re designed the box to a more streamlined version and adapted the name by making it an insert/stamp like motif... Dr Amanda commented that the old one would have blood etc in it and it was hard to clean
So Williams solution was to fill the lettering "holes" with resin to make it flat while still having the Marina View School name visible...
at this stage we have sent it back to Amanda for a review and feedback
11-3-19
Dr Amanda has sent back a reply via video
12-3-19
William will review the video then we can have a discussion on the next step
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Week 6 and "we rock"
We are all so pleased with the movies and games we have produced in 5 weeks.
The feedback the students have given says they thoroughly enjoyed the unit.
Our pephas we recorded with audacity we very successful and to put them into Crazytalk and animate the cartoon characters were brilliant
We will post the finished movies to Linc-ed along with the comics they produced as a pdf...
We dipped our toes in using Gamefroot and want to continue using it to learn more more coding - most of the students gave it 8 or 9 out of 10 for ease of use so we look forward to doing more coding next term
we will post a few examples here later this week
The feedback the students have given says they thoroughly enjoyed the unit.
Our pephas we recorded with audacity we very successful and to put them into Crazytalk and animate the cartoon characters were brilliant
We will post the finished movies to Linc-ed along with the comics they produced as a pdf...
We dipped our toes in using Gamefroot and want to continue using it to learn more more coding - most of the students gave it 8 or 9 out of 10 for ease of use so we look forward to doing more coding next term
we will post a few examples here later this week
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
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
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
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Minecraft Worlds to view
We got each group in each class to tell us about their world in 30 seconds
Yes - some went over - but some of the worlds are looking fantastic
So much time - effort and creativity went into them !
Room FLS #1
Room FLS #2
Room 25
Room 26
Room 29
Yes - some went over - but some of the worlds are looking fantastic
So much time - effort and creativity went into them !
Room FLS #1
Room FLS #2
Room 25
Room 26
Room 29
Sunday, September 23, 2018
Perception Neuron
This, for us, is a major highlight for our Tech' for the year
We are on a steep learning curve and have just started and we have lots of students lining up to join..
Little steps and we are hitting the ground running...
Thanks to the staff at Reallusion for helping us get it all organised and sorted
Watch this space !!!!!
Perception Neuron 1
Perception Neuron short for MVTV
We are on a steep learning curve and have just started and we have lots of students lining up to join..
Little steps and we are hitting the ground running...
Thanks to the staff at Reallusion for helping us get it all organised and sorted
Watch this space !!!!!
Perception Neuron 1
Perception Neuron short for MVTV
STEAM Classes with China
We have 4 teachers this term who are having Dual classes of STEAM with classes in China.
Room 15 STEAM
BEATOP - the software we use to communicate with China
We also had a group of Chinese students visit Marina View School for a week to have an intensive STEAM course with our students
China 1
China 2
China 3
China 4
China evaluation - reflection
Room 15 STEAM
BEATOP - the software we use to communicate with China
We also had a group of Chinese students visit Marina View School for a week to have an intensive STEAM course with our students
China 1
China 2
China 3
China 4
China evaluation - reflection
Term 3 Inquiry and Technology
This term we have an exciting project for everyone
They are going to look at Art and Culture for the first 3 weeks and do a 3D family Tree
Thats a big project to complete in 3 weeks but it is achievable
Senior Word Cloud
In week 4 to 10 we will be researching our own chosen topic about a particular country culture or a part in history that interests them - example - Pirates, Vikings, The Eifel Tower, Egypt
They then do the research and present their findings as a google slideshow
Once they have done this they then build the city - town building, structure in Minecraft.
Each group will assign different aspects of the build and then, using the 4C's work on completing the "world" before week 10 when they present it to class.
This will also be presented in the Art Exhibition in Week 10 in the hall
Here are some videos we made to go on MVTV to show what we are doing during the term
Export the world
Minecraft Seniors
Minecraft August 30
After we had made our world we looked back on how we did and reflected on the result
Minecraft reflection
Sophie and Ali Sophie and Ali were making some art projects to compliment their research for their art and culture topic
NOTE TO PARENTS:
We have posted videos to Flipgrid on what the students have achieved throughout the term. If you go to Linc-Ed on your child's login then you will be able to view their video and the Minecraft Reflection slideshow they made as well
They are going to look at Art and Culture for the first 3 weeks and do a 3D family Tree
Thats a big project to complete in 3 weeks but it is achievable
Senior Word Cloud
In week 4 to 10 we will be researching our own chosen topic about a particular country culture or a part in history that interests them - example - Pirates, Vikings, The Eifel Tower, Egypt
They then do the research and present their findings as a google slideshow
Once they have done this they then build the city - town building, structure in Minecraft.
Each group will assign different aspects of the build and then, using the 4C's work on completing the "world" before week 10 when they present it to class.
This will also be presented in the Art Exhibition in Week 10 in the hall
Here are some videos we made to go on MVTV to show what we are doing during the term
Export the world
Minecraft Seniors
Minecraft August 30
After we had made our world we looked back on how we did and reflected on the result
Minecraft reflection
Sophie and Ali Sophie and Ali were making some art projects to compliment their research for their art and culture topic
NOTE TO PARENTS:
We have posted videos to Flipgrid on what the students have achieved throughout the term. If you go to Linc-Ed on your child's login then you will be able to view their video and the Minecraft Reflection slideshow they made as well
Monday, June 25, 2018
GATE programmes throughout the school - Term 3
We are all doing some great GATE programmes throughout the school so we decided to highlight these as well.
They go from Year 2 to year 6 so have a look at some of these
Year 6 Bonus footage
Year 2 Carrot Piano
Year 6 Sketchup
Year 2 August
Year 5 GATE 3D
Year 5-6 GATE 3D
William Lobster
Crazytalk 30-7
Electric Knee this was part of the MakeyMakey project with the year 2 students
They go from Year 2 to year 6 so have a look at some of these
Year 6 Bonus footage
Year 2 Carrot Piano
Year 6 Sketchup
Year 2 August
Year 5 GATE 3D
Year 5-6 GATE 3D
William Lobster
Crazytalk 30-7
Electric Knee this was part of the MakeyMakey project with the year 2 students
Crazytalk 15 may
Crazytalk 24 may
Kahootz y2
Lily +
Y6 sketchup
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Term 2 so far ... updated version
This term we are incorporating STEAM into our Inquiry topic and we have had lots of fun making different projects
These have been researched and made as a prototype - they will work - but may need further development - all this in 3 weeks !!!!
have a look at the videos to see what we are doing - more to come !
General working scenes at the beginning - https://youtu.be/eG5UZYzCqWA
A wind turbine - Wind turbine https://youtu.be/YX5SjjnkqPo
Pedal power from a bike and a 3v motor - https://youtu.be/xsBMjjGZVmk
A water turbine from plastic bottles and caps - https://youtu.be/Vre0zPdFRX0
Growing crystals https://youtu.be/287sMptrbBg
Crystal update https://youtu.be/2r5lrexaH1k
Pinhole camera https://youtu.be/pBvBzuzFERg
Boys battery test https://youtu.be/XSW2PqDzJYg
Elephant toothpaste https://youtu.be/bAllK2T0Rkk
These have been researched and made as a prototype - they will work - but may need further development - all this in 3 weeks !!!!
have a look at the videos to see what we are doing - more to come !
General working scenes at the beginning - https://youtu.be/eG5UZYzCqWA
A wind turbine - Wind turbine https://youtu.be/YX5SjjnkqPo
Pedal power from a bike and a 3v motor - https://youtu.be/xsBMjjGZVmk
A water turbine from plastic bottles and caps - https://youtu.be/Vre0zPdFRX0
Growing crystals https://youtu.be/287sMptrbBg
Crystal update https://youtu.be/2r5lrexaH1k
Pinhole camera https://youtu.be/pBvBzuzFERg
Boys battery test https://youtu.be/XSW2PqDzJYg
Elephant toothpaste https://youtu.be/bAllK2T0Rkk
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Welcome to Term 1 2018 - keep re visiting here
This term we are looking at using different types of technology to help us with our learning.
We are refining our skills in using different types of software and programmes to enhance our learning...
In the next few weeks we are looking at google forms, survey monkey, edpuzzle and flipgrid to enhance our learning and help us with evaluation and reflection....
Technology is great when it works and today was no exception - ! some things just didn't work !
Our WALTS for today included :
We are refining our skills in using different types of software and programmes to enhance our learning...
In the next few weeks we are looking at google forms, survey monkey, edpuzzle and flipgrid to enhance our learning and help us with evaluation and reflection....
Technology is great when it works and today was no exception - ! some things just didn't work !
Our WALTS for today included :
WALHT - change our perception on how we view the world
WALHT - develop empathy towards people less fortunate than ourselves
We talked about homelessnes and child poverty and feeding the needy and what we could do about it
We realized we didn't know a lot about the organisations that can help them so we are doing quite a bit of research about the different agencies
We used edpuzzle to view a video and give feedback about it and looked at some amazing statistics around the topic
While the figures were big we decided it was more embarrassing, sad and terrible that people in NZ and children in NZ are going hungry and living below the poverty line...
here are a few videos so far... (COMING)
We did some short videos so look at these
We looked at what a good lunch was then rated our own lunch
We talked about homelessnes and child poverty and feeding the needy and what we could do about it
We realized we didn't know a lot about the organisations that can help them so we are doing quite a bit of research about the different agencies
We used edpuzzle to view a video and give feedback about it and looked at some amazing statistics around the topic
While the figures were big we decided it was more embarrassing, sad and terrible that people in NZ and children in NZ are going hungry and living below the poverty line...
We answered a few questions and then recorded our responses in a video
here are a few videos so far... (COMING)
We did some short videos so look at these
Room 23 tech https://youtu.be/CmQAitesoPE
Room 24 tech https://youtu.be/BfPtlCMJHKc
Room 25 tech https://youtu.be/S7hWoorIF6M
Room 26 tech https://youtu.be/jiQdqlHK1cE
Room 29 tech https://youtu.be/bN2S2tQRUQ0
We looked at what a good lunch was then rated our own lunch
Rate my lunch https://youtu.be/qdRIoNdnXQg
Mr M did some Food tech with his class and they cooked up a storm !
Mr M food tech kq6P0WnqbUI
Monday, December 11, 2017
Tractor Links
We have been asked for the tractor links for Youtube so here they are
Definitely the BEST PROJECT EVER !
Definitely the BEST PROJECT EVER !
Here is the list
Tractor week 1 18 May https://youtu.be/
Tractor week 2 22 May https://youtu.be/
Tractor June 1 ttps://youtu.be/
Tractor June 30 https://youtu.be/
Tractor 28 July https://youtu.be/M3NN0_5Af7w
Trailer August 18 https://youtu.be/9sgLgUB_r1Q
Tractor Sept 8 https://youtu.be/lFv-
Tractor Sept 15 https://youtu.be/
And now for the final one - the one you have all been waiting for !!!!!
tractor ride finished https://youtu.be/
And now for the final one - the one you have all been waiting for !!!!!
tractor ride finished https://youtu.be/
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Hydroponics and Sustainability - progress so far
We have got our designs and have made some prototypes and the plants are in and growing.
We have learnt about the failure rate of planting seeds and seedlings and how delicate they are.
Most of the problems we have had with the lettuces are OVER WATERING but we have got that under control now.
Here is a link from MVTV on whats happened so far
Report # 2
We have got all our units going but like anything they are all at different stages of growth. We have a few flowers on the tomatoes and pea pods on the peas.
This week they had to evaluate their plants and system to say if its going and they haven't killed their plants - we worked out that a mixture of pumice and coconut fibre works well for the lettuces and tomatoes and the peppers we got this week and they are already sprouting new growth
Report #1
The level of participation using Flipgrid and Quizizz is amazing and we will continue using these programmes into 2018.
Photos of the Hydroponic setups so far
One of the extra things we are getting them to do is to take photos of themselves with their plants to display them on the wall.
We are using Photoshop to place multiple shots of themselves with their plant so that will be a new experience using Photoshop and the rest is just pure fun !
Once we have the photos processed we will post them up here
Here is Amberley telling them how to do this
Amberley
MORE PICTURES
We have learnt about the failure rate of planting seeds and seedlings and how delicate they are.
Most of the problems we have had with the lettuces are OVER WATERING but we have got that under control now.
Here is a link from MVTV on whats happened so far
Report # 2
We have got all our units going but like anything they are all at different stages of growth. We have a few flowers on the tomatoes and pea pods on the peas.
This week they had to evaluate their plants and system to say if its going and they haven't killed their plants - we worked out that a mixture of pumice and coconut fibre works well for the lettuces and tomatoes and the peppers we got this week and they are already sprouting new growth
pix to follow
Report #1
The level of participation using Flipgrid and Quizizz is amazing and we will continue using these programmes into 2018.
Photos of the Hydroponic setups so far
One of the extra things we are getting them to do is to take photos of themselves with their plants to display them on the wall.
We are using Photoshop to place multiple shots of themselves with their plant so that will be a new experience using Photoshop and the rest is just pure fun !
Once we have the photos processed we will post them up here
Here is Amberley telling them how to do this
Amberley
MORE PICTURES
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