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

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

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

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

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

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

Crazytalk 15 may    https://youtu.be/1G7xunxlMwc

Crazytalk 24 may    https://youtu.be/lz8Pc3i1or0

Kahootz y2     https://youtu.be/0OR0XdIWAdQ

Kahootz y2 fin      https://youtu.be/J1BbgLE8JFo  

Lily +      https://youtu.be/mBiGaTnJnfw

Y6 sketchup     https://youtu.be/sF0eOdfCmuM

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