Tech Reflection 2017

Digi Tech

 Graphics

Food Tech

It has come to an end of the tech for 2017. We have finished our rotations for this year. For the year 7 we had three rotations. First we had graphics with Mrs Ferguson. We planned ideas for making jewelry. It was exciting drawing the elements we wanted on our jewelry. I was planning to make my jewelry for Mrs Anderson. I found out that she liked handbags so I decided to draw a handbag for my jewelry. The fun part about design with Mrs Ferguson was making fidget spinners. During this rotation I learnt how to use the laser cutter and the 3D printer works. I have also learnt the different kinds of jewelry like watches, bracelets, earrings etc. The year 7 second rotation was digital tech with Mrs Anderson. For digi tech we made an animation on scratch about healthy living in the Tamaki Community. In my animation it shows someone exercising and why its good to exercise. The fun part about using scratch was searching through all the different characters in scratch. Our last rotation was cooking with Mrs Heka. Cooking was the best out of all because we go to cook amazing and delicious dishes. In our first session we made Oreo Milkshake. I think this was my second best thing I made in food tech. My favorite food I made with Mrs Heka was Pancakes with Ice Cream. During this tech time I have learnt a lot of things especially in digi tech. I learnt what how to use scratch and how to edit things on scratch. I would like to say a big thank you to Mrs Ferguson for her hard effort in teaching us how to use the 3D printer, Mr Anderson for teaching us how to use scratch and Mrs Heka for tutoring us on how to cook delicious food. 

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.

Tech - Design

Today the year 7 and 8 went to tech. My group with was half of the year 7 did design. First we had to go on tinkacad and finish of doing our pictures of Mrs Anderson. Some of our pictures look like chickens and witches. Soon we had to put together our jewelry pictures on tinkacad for our client. I made a coffee for Mrs Anderson (teacher).  It looked awesome. 

How to make an eye out of Cylnder

Today for tech we had to go on Tinkacad and we had to make an eye with just Cylinder. It was pretty hard making it but, I stall managed to do it. I had some help from Mataio. Now I have learnt how to make an eye out of Cylinder. The words that we used for making the eyes were Align, Hole, and Grouped. After grouping our Cylinder we rotated them to 180 degrees. This was a lot of fun.

Tech - Design - 2D Models Compare and Contrast

Today for Tech we had to finish drawing our Pictures that will be made into Jewelry's. We had to make 2. After that Mrs Ferguson took pictures of our 2 pictures we been drawing. All of us had fun drawing our pictures. After Mrs Ferguson had took our pictures we had to go on a google drawing that was made by Mrs Ferguson and put both our pictures there. We had to write down what is the same of the two pictures and the differences between the two pictures.

Tech - Design

Today the year 7 and 8 went to tech. They year 7 did hard material and design. For design we had Mrs Ferguson. Today we went on Tinkercad and creat 3-d shapes. This was really awesome. There were shapes like cones , cubes , Sphere and other shapes. We had fun doing this. We also helped each other to finish our work. After creating our shapes we had to take screenshots. We also took videos of what we did. I have uploaded a video of Mataio and I explaining what we did with shapes.