The Great Wave of Wainui

 This week was my last session ever in Manaiakalani, and got introduced to the Summer learning program. It is a program where there is a task every week that you can do and then post on your blog. Our first task was recolouring famous artworks and learning about the different textures of art on a website called art colouring book. We watched a video called the elements of art. We learnt that art was made up off line, shape, form, space, colour, value and texture. 

I found it very fun to pick my own colours and express my understanding of art. I was slightly annoyed at the amount of colours that were available to use when I was creating. I choose purple and yellow in my picture because they are complementary colours, and blue and pink because I thought they worked really well with the other colours. 

Can you spot the difference?

The Great Wave of Kanagawa coloured by Hannah

The Great Wave of Kanagawa coloured by Katsushika Hokusai

Smart Media

 This term we are moving on to learning about smart media. For our first session we learnt about what media really is, and the three different types of media. Broadcast media, print media and news media, which all shape what we believe and don't believe and heavily impact our lives. I worked with Georgia for this task. 

We had to make sure we didn't use images that weren't labeled for reuse, and at the start we found it very hard to find the right images as there wasn't many that fit with what we were trying to create. We found a website called unsplash which really helped us find the right images. We found it fun to design and work out the layout of our poster. If you would also like to make something like this we used google drawings. 

What does media mean to you?

Reporting from Boffinham High...

One of the many programs that we use in class in a thing called SHARP. I personally think it has improved my reading a lot this year. It trains our brains to think accurately while reading. Recently we have began to get tasks after our sharp sessions as an extra task. 

I really enjoyed creating the video with Georgia, even though it took us a few tries to get it right. We found it slightly hard to be creative with the questions as we didn't really have that much time to complete the task. Next time I would like to get costumes to make the characters more realistic, it would also be good to not spend as much time videoing and spend extra time on the script. 

What do you think we could improve on our video?

Can YOU help me with my maths?

 I have to admit, when we first got today's task I was very confused; I had no idea what I was going to do. After brainstorming a bit and thinking about different things like creating a art piece or a poster, I decided I would settle on making a scratch game.

 I found it a little challenging at first to put the voiceover in. I really enjoyed creating the maths questions. I am still pretty proud of my game though. I would really like to know how you did with the questions in the comments!

How many did you get right?

Ko Hannah Grace Webb Toku Ingoa

We were learning about our pepehas today. It was a great opportunity to learn what my pepeha was, as I only had a slight idea of what it was. Surprisingly I only knew what my awa and moana was. We used a website called pepeha.nz to fill it out and tour builder to show where my places are. The website made it very easy to learn and make it but I found it slightly harder to make the tour. In the future I would really like to learn more about my history and my pepeha.

What is your pepeha?

Chase the Rainbows

Tonui collab has been so fun! Lately, our class has been spending every Tuesday there. When we have been at Tonui, we have been learning about how to code to create games. We also did other things including circuitry, challenges, debugging and many other things. 

I loved the games we played when we had to think outside of the box. I really enjoyed creating my characters, enemies and coins. Finishing it on time was a challenge for me as I was away for one of the sessions. Next time I would really like to have more time to create my game to make it the best it could be. Thanks to Tonui for teaching our class! Also last thing. Have you ever made a game by yourself?

Click HERE to view my game.

Super Snazzy Snowman Game

Recently we have been using a tool called Tipu in class. It has really helped with my understanding of the Maori language and taught me the basics of the Maori language. It has been really good to start this as I am planning on taking Maori in high school. For manaiakalani we had to use scratch to express what we have learnt so far with Tipu to teach other some Te Reo Maori.

I found it easy to think of questions for my game, but I found it challenging to change the piskel as I deleted the other one and it deleted all my work. This was really annoying because it made me not complete the task on time. It has definitely taught me a lesson about saving my work so it doesn't delete though. Next time I would also like to make my character move and listen to the teacher more as he did mention that if we didn't save our character it would delete.

Do you know any words from the Maori language?