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?

#BlackLivesMatter

Last week we had a writing assessment. I did mine on racism. Surprisingly I didn't find writing this speech hard; I normally find them really hard. I made sure I also researched my topic beforehand so I had some facts to back up my argument and also made sure to include the sentence styles we have been learning more the past year and a half and the paragraph styles I have recently began to learn. On the other hand I enjoyed having my say in this problem that is affecting the whole world at the moment. I personally think it's a really big problem and we really need to start acting on it. 

Have you ever been affected by racism? If so, are you still affected by racism?

Racism is a quiet, but big problem in New Zealand. Everyday people are being punished for the colour of their skin or the place they were born in. It is not acceptable. One in three complaints to the Human Rights Commission are about racism; most people normally do not report racism. Which means this number is most likely even higher. I strongly agree that racism is a big problem in New Zealand, and as a country we need to do something about it.

Unfortunately, casual racism is a big but not talked about topic. Quite often we let small comments, thoughts and actions into our life without doing anything about it. It is not doing anything about racism that is making it flourish. We are suddenly making it alright to say racist things, until eventually someone gets killed. Thinking they are doing their bit, the people who said nothing changed their profile picture to anti racist one, when really that does nothing to help.

On March the 15, an attack on a muslim mosque killed around 50 people. Since then racism for muslims has only gotten worse. A young muslim woman exclaimed that the racism after the mosque attacks there was not less hate—there was more. Another woman said that when at a bus stop she was sworn at and told to go back to her own country. This is not acceptable anymore.

Racist comments happen to everyone. African, european, asian, indian, chinese, pacific people all suffer from racism. You may be thinking, no white people do not suffer racism, but we do. At my school I sometimes am afraid to walk past one of the classes as they have called me names for my white skin. Recently I have tried to learn maori, but I feel as if I should give up as someone told me that I'll never be able to learn maori because I am white. No one should ever be scared to walk past a group of people because they are scared of what they might say.

I am confident that racism is a problem in New Zealand. People get attacked verbally and physically because of their ethnicity. It is time to stop. Stop all the racist comments, people being scared to walk around; in a country they should feel safe in. In a country they should feel loved, supported and accepted. It is time for New Zealand to step up and take the lead in racism all around the world, we were the first country to let women vote. So let's be the first country with zero racism

All about ME!

This session in Manaiakalani we were learning about images and what images you can't and can't use. We learnt that sometimes we just save an image on our computer and forget that we actually legally can't use that image unless we get permission from the owner. When you search up an image on your computer there is a tool just below the search bar, which lets only images that are labeled for reuse come up as images you can use. Another great website I use is Unsplash, it has thousands of free images that you can save at any time of the day. 

 I found it really fun to create this project. I made sure that all the images I had to explain myself were in the same colour palette. Sometime I did find it hard to find the exact right image that would represent exactly what I wanted it to mean. Is there anything you think I should improve on?

Sam the Snowman

We used a new tool called Piskel, it helped us create characters exactly how we wanted them to be in our scratch game. It also gave you templates of characters just incase you were stuck on how your character may look, but I decided to make my one from scratch. After deciding out of a dog, fish and snowman, choose a snowman as I thought it was a bit different to what everyone else was doing. I have to admit I really struggled at the start because I didn't know how to use it, once I got the hang out of it, it was really easy and cool to use. 

Under the Sea with Hannah and Georgia

Today I made this video with Georgia. Our aim was to include a phrase from some maori that we are learning. Go check out Georgia's blog. https://gisintgeorgiar.blogspot.com/

The Secret Garden

A few weeks ago I wrote a summary on the secret garden, here's mine.

Mary Lennox—sour, skinny, foul-tempered—who loves no one and whom nobody loves, is the main character. At the start of the story she had no friends and had a negative outlook to everything. She lives in India with her mother, beautiful and frivolous and her father, an army captain. Who she scarcely sees. Unfortunately everyone, including the servants, dies of a disease apart from Mary. She turns into an orphan.

Mary is stuck in her room oblivious to the fact that everyone had died, until a group of soldiers find her in her room with great surprise. Considering that she is now an orphan, they decide to send Mary to her uncle, Archibald Craven in Yorkshire, England. Shortly after she arrives at her uncle's she finds out about a mysterious garden; she decides to go find it.

As Mary searches for the garden she begins to become strong and happy. Eventually she discovers the secret garden, where she starts working on to making it beautiful again. Dickon, a boy who can charm the animals of the moor, becomes Mary's partner and first friend. One day she hears strange cries coming from one of the rooms. Interested by strange cries she decides to investigate. She finds Colin Craven —unfit, negative, impolite—her uncle's son.

Mary and Dickon begin secretly bringing Colin to the secret garden. A few people find out about their secret including Ben Weatherstaff and Susan Sowerby, but still does not tell Mr Craven. Eventually Colins health miraculously improves; he no longer thinks that he should no longer live and has a positive attitude, just as it did to Mary. One day Susan writes a letter to Mr Craven exclaiming that he must come home, but does not tell him why. Concerned, Mr Craven comes home straight away. His first instinct is to go to the secret garden; when he turns the handle of the door his son comes rushing into his arms. Colin's recovery becomes known to all.

Carrying your Computer

Yesterday we made videos to teach primary school kids how to carry their computers. We were learning about how to use wevideo. I found it easy to edit and put the video together but hard to write the script and act it out. I also really enjoyed working with Sarah.

My Lockdown !

We were learning about how to create and edit a video on wevideo. I found it easy to edit my video and put it together. I found it hard to make sure that I said all the right things and get the right timing when I videoed myself. I really enjoyed acting in the videos, especially the kayaking one. Next time I need to make it a bit more funny and less serious.

ANZAC

Over the past few weeks we have been learning about ANZAC day. I found it easy to collect enough infomation for the slides. I found it hard to work with my partner as we couldn't communicate. I really enjoyed learning about my connections to ANZAC day. Next time I need to find a way to communicate with my partner.

 

tech

Today I decided to do some Horticuture. I went out to our gardens at home and planted some spinach and fennel. I also picked some of the veges that we already have there. While I was doing this I found a few dried up sunflowers, so I decided to take all of the seeds out of them. I got alot of seeds. I am hoping to plant them in spring.

Escape To Freedom

This week we had a task to create animations, I decided to do mine on my Great Grandfather. I found it easy to make add animations to the animation. I found it hard to find the right images that I needed. I really enjoyed being able to go back and read my Great Grandfathers full story, because I find war so interesting. Next time I need to find better images and not rush myself so much.

About Me 2020

Last week we learnt about making profiles for our blog. We had to make them informative, good looking and of good quality. I found it easy to make and didn't find anything challenging. I enjoyed designing mine and making it look good. I also had to make sure that I didn't put things in like my full name and my address.