Digital Tech

Today I am going to do a reflection on two apps were trying out in digital tech. The two apps are Scratch or Sphero and we had to do both on Tuesday, the first half of the 2 hours we had digital tech my class did scratch and the other class did Sphero then we swapped. 

Scratch is where you can design characters, make animations and when you design characters you can also record sounds. I haven't learnt how to make the animations yet but I know how to do the sounds, backgrounds and characters.

Sphero is a app that connects to robots and you can program the robots to do anything or you can just control it by yourself. It is fun but I think you can do more on scratch, and you have to have a ipad for the Sphero app. I think scratch is easier for me.

PE

In the last week in PE we were doing maths and my team taught the class how to play bench ball. We did the maths before my team taught our groups game. 

For maths there are 6 big teams so our teacher decided to do 3 practising our PE stuff and some of the maths. The maths work we had to work out was, how much money it takes to paint all the lines on a football field. For the maths we got into groups of 3 from our big group we were going to teach the class in. The girls in my team were Nykaychia and Meleana. Our teacher made the maths PE based since we were in PE still. 

For bench ball my team was teaching the class bench ball, and I'm more of a shy person so at the start I was freaked out and I had to tell my teacher about it. Anyways the warm ups my group planned were 40 star jumps, 20 high knees and 10 jogging up and down the court, we had to do the warm up for 5 minutes so we repeated everything again. After that we did the 2 drills we planned, one of our drills didn't workout so we just did the first one for a longer amount of time. When we got into teams, since theres 2 year 7 and 8 classes we got the year 7s together and the year 8s. Then we did year 8 and 7 class vs class. Our team had to ref the 2 games so some of us went to one game and some of us went to the other. 

Also I couldn't but our team joined in if they were yr 7 or 8 in there class, then we had a big year 7 vs 8 game. I wanted to join in with the year 8s so bad since I am a year 8 but I wasn't allowed to.

Here are some pictures the teachers took during bench ball:

CIP

In CIP we had to make a DLO for a company were doing recycling for, called TerraCycle. TerraCycle recycles stationery that doesn't work anymore and makes it into something new. For every kg we send in we get $2, but to send the stationery to them there has to be 2 kgs. To tell the other people in our community about this well probably put it on the school site or Facebook page.

Here's our DLO we made last week:

Ella West Visit

Today Ella west came to our school and talked to the year 7+8s about being a author and her life. Some people in my class were reading one of Ella's books Night Vision but I wasn't one of them. Another class did some work on Night Vision before the people in my class and Ella saw there work. She lives in Dunedin so she had to come all the way up to Christchurch to visit our school. I think that it was cool that she came, and she told us about the start of Night Vision and it sounded cool. 

She also told us about another one of her books called Rain Falls. They both sound like pretty cool books to me. She told us about a little girl in Night Vision and what she saw that scared her. Also a little bit about Rain Falls to. She also told us about how she writes her books and how long it takes. She said it normally takes her like 2 months to write one. 

I think the visit was pretty cool and it was cool that she came and talked to us. Maybe the author my group worked on might or might not come to our school.

These are the covers of Night Vision and Rain Falls:

Digital tech

In digital tech we have been looking at different issues in the world and how we can fix them. We have been doing digital tech for a few weeks now and I know what my issue I'm going to search about is. The class could choose either a social issue, environmental issue or ethical. The reason my post is a bit late is because I've been away while the class has been blogging.

My research template that we were researching more about our question:

What category does your issue fall under?  Social                     Environmental   Ethical		What specifically is your issue (e.g. Global Warming, Pollution of NZ waterways, etc) Do sport refs treat boys and girls differently?
Why is this issue important to you?  Because I like to play a sport that some girls play and I want to see if refs treat guys and girls differently. I have had mainly female refs at high school but at primary school I had a male ref, so I would like to find our more about this.
Your Focusing Questions	Resource 1 (first website, video, or source of info) (Copy the website or video you use to get your information)	Resource 2 (second website, video, or source of info) (Copy the website or video you use to get your information)	Resource 3 (third website, video, or source of info) (Copy the website or video you use to get your information)
Question One Who/what does your issue affect?	What did your first source say? Most of the people said it’s unfair that guys play on a girls sport team because girls can’t play on a guys sport team. But some people liked it. Website Info	What did your second source say? I don’t know what the site was but it was basically saying that girls can do sports but it was also saying how unfair it was that girl sports are not as popular as guy sports. Website Info:	What did your third source say? Website Info:
Question Two Do refs treat boys and girls differently?	What did your first source say? Website Info:	What did your second source say? Website Info:	What did your third source say? Website Info:
Question Three Which sports have males and females playing together?	What did your first source say? Website Info:	What did your second source say? Website Info:	What did your third source say? Website Info: