Tech Reflection|Digital Charity Box|Homeless

For one of the graphics task I was to create a charity box on a DLO. This was meant to be done as a charity box but in a digital version. As my charity box is based on homelessness I included phrases that says: please donate to the homeless and make someone's day happy. I have also included a photo of a homeless person to make my DLO more attractive. 

Tech Reflection|Certificate Charity Box|Graphics

For one of the tech task we were to make a DLO with all the activities we have been doing this term for graphic. This included the activities we posted on our blog, our t-shirt printing, and our charity box. I have included nearly everything I've done this term. I am really proud of myself for finishing a lot of work. Some activities are not up on this DLO since I couldn't find them. 

Tech Reflection|Production Plan of Charity Box

Today was our 5th week of Tech at Tamaki College. Tech at Tamaki College has been going great. In Mr Pineda's group (graphics) we were to finish off our charity box. I have already finished my charity box last week and today my task was to complete a google draw on the steps, materials tools, and the time on creating the charity box. It took me 20 to 30 minutes of painting my charity box which is pretty long. Today I also painted/printed on my t-shirt.

Tech Reflection - Charity Box Design Brief

Today was our 3rd session of Graphics for tech. Our tech teacher was Mr Pineda. Our task today was to complete a document that had the 5w's about our charity boxes. Some of the basic questions are: What are we going to design? What is the design going to be used for? and Why are we making this design? We also started making our Charity box out of cardboard paper. I have designed my charity box by adding a shelter since my charity box is based on the homeless. I have included a shelter because as you know homeless don't have any shelter to live in and they need it. On my charity box I have also included a writing saying Help The Homeless. 

Week 2 Technology - Graphics

Today was our second session of graphics for term 4. We didn't have Mr Pineda in so we had Mr McKenzie-Brown who is an English teacher in Tamaki College. Today since Mr Pineda wasn't here we were to finish off coloring and drawing our charity boxes. My charity box is based on helping the homeless so I have phrases such as Donate, Help the homeless,  and Please donate $1. I've also added a home/shelter which symbolizes that homeless people need shelter. I've nearly finished coloring and going to put together my charity box.

Tech Reflection - Analysis Chairty Collection Box

For reflection we had a third task which was to plan our charity box and how it would look like. In this analysis it includes what our letters are going to look like what slogan were going to use and also shapes for our charity box. As you can see I've decided to make my charity box about homeless so my slogan is "sharing is caring". The colors I'm going to use in my charity box is red, yellow, white, orange, and blue. 

Tech Reflection - 3D Shape Game

Today for tech Mr Pineda (tutor teacher) set a game based on 3D shapes. Examples of 3D shapes are cuboid, sphere, cone prism etc. For this activity there 3 games and for one of the game we were to see how many faces, edges, and vertices there were in the shape given. For example if the questions says how many vertices does a cuboid the answer will of course be 8. There are lives in this game and if you get a incorrect answer you loose 1 life. There is a maximum of 4 lives. I really enjoyed this game and hope to play it again next time. 

Tech Reflection - Art

Today was our first session of art for Term 4. Today were to finish off coloring or drawing our charity box. My charity box is based on helping the homeless. In my charity box I have written things based on homeless such as: Donate, Share The Love, Help The Pore etc. I have done my charity box based on helping the homeless because how many homeless people living in Auckland (800 homeless people).

Tech Reflection - Charity Box Vocab Saying

As part of our Graphic tasks we were to fill up the four clouds with the vocab that was written on the box below. As you can see the topics were slogans, donate, topic, and shape. Some of the vocab we were to write down I haven't heard of such as fork out and stump up. Other than that I found this task easy and also fun. I also got marker a merit for this task which I was surprisingly amazed by. So far graphics with Mr Pineda is going great and I can't wait to do more of his amazing activities. 

Tech Reflection - Decorative Letters|Names

Today for tech we were to finish our decorative letters of our names. I know my letters looks different but there supposed to because we were to be creative and draw something else for example instead of drawing an 'i' I have drawn a candle and instead of drawing a 'L' I have drawn a tree drunk. Mr Pineda who is our graphic teacher has kindly laminated this for us. After every task we do we get marked. The markings are Achieved, Merit, and Excellence. For this piece of art I got marked Excellence which I was really happy about. 

Tech Reflection - Graphics

This week was our second session of graphics for the second rotation. The year 8 B (my group) are doing graphics with Mr Pineda. Today we have been drawing and designing our names and some students are up to coloring. During this we have learnt to shade letters in our names and also how to use toondoos. For our toondoos we were to make a comic strip explaining what the graphic expectations are. One of the graphic expectations are: taking your time and don't rush your work. Hopefully next week everyone and get to coloring their names.

Tech Reflection - Cooking

It is the last week of the term meaning we will not learn anything for the nest two week (holidays). Today we cooked Meat Pies with Mrs Tuipolotu. It was interesting to see how people were cooping with challenges of cooking the meat pies because there were some onions that were over cooked and some of the ham was not cooked fully so they had to cook the ham for another 5-10 minutes. At the end everyone was happy of what they cooked and enjoyed their Meat Pie. We are looking forward to see what were going to cook for next terms sessions.

Here is the Recipe:

Step 1 - Dice the onion, ham, and mince

Step 2 - Fry the onion first, and then ham, and mince

Step 3 - Add the sauce, soya, sauce, and cornflour, mix herbs

Step 4 - Place the pastry on the round baking tin foil

Step 5 - Pour all your meat in and bake 180 degrees for 20 minutes.

Food Tech Reflection

Today was our 5th session of food tech with Mrs Tuipolotu (cooking teacher). We were really excited because this was our second time cooking it and we know how delicious the muffins are. We followed the 3 instructions that were compulsory which is follow the instructions, correctly measure the ingredients and being able to read the ingredients properly. I worked with Jeremiah to cook 12 chocolate chip muffins and we enjoyed cooking together. The most important thing we learnt today is to not under mix or over mix our ingredients because if you over mix the muffins the air in the mixture will decrease and if you under mix the mixture the muffins will look really heavy and dents like a rock. If, next time I was to cook chocolate chips muffin I would change something which is to mix more because in my mixture it showed some flowers which meant I didn't mix my ingredient properly. Thank you to Mrs Tuipolotu for teaching us how to cook Chocolate Chip Muffins.

Chocolate Chip Muffin Recipe:

Step 1 - 1, 1/2 cup of Sugar.Flour

Step 2 - 1/2 cup of sugar

Step 3 - 1/2 cup of oil, 1/2 cup of ,milk

Step 4 - 1/4 cup of cocoa, chocolate chips

Step 5 - 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence

Step 6 - 1 egg

Step 7 - Mix all ingredients and scoop 1 teaspoons each muffin into muffin tray

Step 8 - Bake 180 degrees for 15 minutes

Tech Reflection

Today was our 5 session of food tech but our first tome cooking a savoury meal with Mrs Tuipolotu (cooking teacher). Today Jeremiah and I baked 12 quiches. Cooking the quiches was pretty easy for me since I've already made them at home. Mrs Tuipolotu taught us how to whisk and also how to prepare all the equipment we need to cook. At the end we took a photo of our master piece and the fun part was enjoying our delicious quiches. Thank you to Mrs Tuipolotu for teaching us how to make quiches.

Steps to cooking Quiches:

Step 1 - Cut the pastry into 12 pieces. Past into muffin tray

Step 2 - Dice Ham + Add ham and cheese into the muffin tray

Step 3 - Whisk 4 eggs with 1/2 cup of milk. Dip in top of ham & cheese. Bake 180 degress for 15 minnutes.

Tech Reflections | Art

Today was our fourth session for art and will be our last session since we are rotating next week. For our last session of art we finished of our wakahuia (wakahuia is special jewelry box) drawings. We learnt that there is two different types of wakahuia which is the traditional one and the contemporary one. The traditional wakahuia includes feathers from the huia birds and has more cultural Maori patterns. It also consist carving on it.The contemporary is the opposite. It has no feathers from the huia bird has no carving on it. It has less details and patterns. My wakahuia drawing above has two different parts to it. The drawing of lid is at the bottom and my patterns are on the top. A big thank you to Mrs Telefoni for teaching us last term and a bit of this term.

Evaluation Of My Animated Digital Story

Evaluation of My Animated Digital Story

The digital media outcome will be an animated digital story in ‘Scratch’, relating to the context of Healthy Living in the Tamaki community.

The animated story must include the following:

• Information on that informs readers about concepts relating to Healthy Living in the Tamaki community
• At least two sprites
• At least two different backdropsMy Animated Digital Story is about why Littering is a problem
  My Animated Digital Story relates to the context of Healthy Living in the Tamaki Community because littering is unhealthy to the community and if it keeps on happening our home will be polluted.
  My Animated Digital Story informs readers about concepts relating to Healthy Living in the Tamaki Community by telling them why it is important to stop littering.
  My Animated Digital Story includes at least two sprites.  I did three sprites. These sprites are a soccer ball, a girl name Hannah and a Referee.
  My Animated Digital Story includes at least two different backdrops. I did two backdrops. These backdrops are a Soccer Field and a Basketball Court.
  I think that readers will enjoy my Animated Digital Story because It is going to show them some sports that will help them become healthy and encourage them to enjoy exercise.
  
  
  Changes and adjustments that I could make to improve my Animated Digital Story Include better backdrops, sprites and a longer Animated Story.

Tech - Digital Tech

Today for tech we started on making our own animated story on  scatch. It took us a a long time to find our backdrops and sprites. Our animated story had to be based on Healthy Living in the Tamaki Community. First we had to read the project insturction on how to create our animated story. We reflected back to our Abbey and Devin animated story to get an example. My animated story is on picking up rubbish. I have learnt that we had to include a minimum of three pages.

Tech - Digi Tech

Today for tech we did a new rotation so the year 8 are now on design with Mrs Ferguson, Half of the year 7 are are doing Food Tech with Mrs Tuipolotu and the other half which is my group is doing Digi Tech with Ms Anderson. Today for Digi Tech we made our own site where we had to put all our work that we do at Digi Tech. We also went on scratch and played a game called Moana Hour Code. We had to code blocks to make Moana's and Maui's waka (boat) move foward to where they want to go. For example if the waka had to go turn left we had to put a block saying turn left. There were levels from 1 to 19. I really liked this game and I feel like playing it again.

Tech - Design

Today at tech the design group were drawing 3D shapes. We traced all the shapes on a grid. The easiest shape to draw was the cube. We had to draw a 3 by 3 cube shape and color one side light , the other side dark, and the third side in between light and dark. This was called tone. We also learnt how to draw a 3D crating and a cuboid. It was hard to draw it, but I managed to get help from Mrs Ferguson. The hardest thing was trying to shade the cubes neatly without any scribbles.

Tech - Design

Jewellery Design

Today the year 7 and 8 went to tech. My group is stall on design with Mrs Ferguson. Today we went on tinkacad and had to finish of our design for the person we are making our jewellery for. I am making my design for my teacher Mrs Anderson. After that we had to draw a oblong mixed with two or three different kinds of animals. I did a pig, cat, unicorn picture. It looked very hilarious and funny. After drawing our picture in pencil we had to trace it in pen. After tracing the picture in pen we had to rub out the pencil and only have the pen. Mrs Ferguson's oblong looked very awesome.