Miko & Nummy iExplore Learning Story - September 2015

Learner: Divya, Jessica & Johanna                                         Learning Coach :DWilkes      Date:  Term 3-4                                                                       Learning Area: Technology

Learning Observed

Jessica, Johanna and Divya are certainly developing their animation capabilities in their current iExplore around creating a series of animated videos ‘Miko and Nummy’.  The three girls have been working together collaboratively- making substantive decisions together, negotiating their next steps, sharing tasks, taking turns and thinking forward. They have had ample opportunity to make connections to their prior knowledge, for example, the programme is based on one they have seen before, their previous experience with animating (including what they learned at the Google Learner Summit) and how to reflect.  They have watched tutorials, tried out their predictions and played around with the various affordances of the equipment and programme, self directing their learning. This iExplore is large in scope and it is interesting to observe how the girls are designing their series and mapping out their time.  They showed their curiosity, thinking and managing self skills by looking at what others had done and making connections to what they wanted to achieve. They have had voice over auditions, planned and pitched a club successfully to get a team together to assist them, investigated the setting up of a channel to house the completed episodes and learned new software.  They are inspirational and resilient!  This is a perfect example of what an iExplore learning adventure should be- something the girls are passionate about and invested in.  They are learning as part of their process and not for the sake of it.  Teaching and leading others in their club will help them make connections, teach others and foster curiosity in others.  I am so excited to see where this goes- well done girls!

Evidence of learning

See a short video of their animation here See their iExplore Learning Model Doc here

Next Learning Steps

keep updating your iExplore doc- this can’t be all Jessica all of the time and ensure sufficient detail and reflection (this includes what is going well and what the challenges have been) write a reflective blog post about your iExplore experience to date including your club set up and what you will do for the club make an iMovie of what you are doing like a lesson, to teach other learners how to animate the way you are set up a sub-channel on our LH1 Youtube account

My gafe experience

My gafe experience 

On 12 August I went to Gafe - Google apps for education - and I went to some workshops. The first workshop I went to is about animation I thought it would help with my I explore but it didn't really because you could only move certain pictures though it was quiet interesting.

The second workshop I went to is well... I didn't have a workshop because it was my workshop so we talked about blogger and my buddy was ashmira the things that we did were, watch a video, write a blog about our presentation and the part everyone liked was the game and the game was about the to show dog with a blog.

The third workshop I went to was 3D printing it didn't really teach me anything and I didn't get a turn to try out the program I hope I get to next time.
The last workshop was Google card board and well.... That workshop wasn't that fair because everyone got 2 or 3 turns and I just got one but at least I got to try it out.
I hope you liked my blog post about my gafe experience.

Johanna and Divya's 3D Printing Learning Story

Learners: Divya & Johanna    Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: 21.9.15

Learning Area: Technology - 3D Printing

Learning Observed

Divya & Johanna chose to participate in 3D Printing during iExperience during Week 7-10 this term. We initially learnt about the Thinker’s Key called ‘BAR’. BAR stands for Bigger, Add, Replace. To practise, the learners had to pick either a pen, lunch box or tennis racquet to make a feature bigger, add to the item and replace something. The learners had as much creative license as they needed and then they reflected on how functional the item had become - could it still be used for its original purpose? The next stage was to come up with an item that we use at school and repeat the BAR process. Divya & Johanna decided to replace the cubbies the learners keep their bags in. They designed and created a locker large enough to sit in! Divya & Johanna had to use the website TinkerCad to design their new and improved locker. They had to use the pre-existing shapes to form their 3D model which was then printed out by our LH1 3D printer. After analysing their printed model, the girls were able to write a description about who would use it, why they designed it and what its features were. They also spent some time reflecting on improvements and redesigning it on TinkerCad to show these changes.

Evidence of learning

Divya and Johanna’s explanation of their 3D locker.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Divya & Johanna were collaborative during this process by sharing ideas and coming up with other ways to show creativity (Thinking, Participating & Contributing). They demonstrated curiosity by engaging with the entire technology process of designing, making, redesigning and evaluating. Divya & Johanna were connected as they were able to show their learning in three different mediums (paper, digital and printed model). The girls also showed capability at presenting their learning to other people in the 3D printing group (see photo above).

Next Learning Steps

Complete the second design on TinkerCad and print if time allows. Use the 3D printer as a component of an iExplore. Create a video/animation to teach other learners how to use TinkerCad.

What it's like to be a twin #2

Hello this is what it's like to be a twin part 2, if you are reading this then you probably have seen part one if you haven't then read that before you read this. But anyways on with the story, so today we were having a chat/meeting and Ms Wilkes mentioned my previous blog post by saying that she's sorry that she gets us wrong but she is still trying to learn the diffences one of them from me friend was that I have a squeakier voice and my sister has a more man like voice and from a birthday party that I've went to before is when you say one of our names either me or my sister will look up. I said that I spend more time with my friend Divya so if one of us are beside her then that's probrably me. But that's all from part two stay tuned for new weeks blog post which is part three, anyways thank you for reading my blog post be sure to read part three.

Why we should be allowed to play games at school

This blog post is about why we should be able to play games at school.    The first reason is because we do alot of work at school and we should at least have some fun because we are young and we have alot of work to do. We should also be able to play games at school when we have finished all our work, that would be kind because we would have no more work to do and that would mean we've got nothing to do. Last thing is because other schools get to play games so why cant we? We do more work, for example we have to finished 12 tasks a week which means more than one a day. Can the teachers at least let us play games or give less work to us. I hope our teachers do read my blog and know that we should at least play a game.

Ever after high - unfairest of them all

Ever after high - unfairest of them all

The first thing I think this story might be related to Raven Queen and Apple White because they have their faces on the cover and the title talks about Snow White ( Apple White's mother ).
I noticed that this book isn't just talking about fairy tales but the author also added a bit of humour into the book like when he/she talked about the fight of bananas in chapter 1.

The second thing I think this story might be about is Cedar trying to figure out where to sit by her friends or with the rebels because she doesn't want to be a wooden puppet so she sat in the middle

The last thing I think this story might be about is that it talks about all the characters so Apple and Raven won't be the only main characters I think everyone will be the main characters so once in a while they will change the main characters so Apple and Raven will only be co-starring in some of the chapters.

What it's like to be a twin

Do you ever wonder what it's like to be a twin? I don't, because I'm a twin. First thing I NEED to tell you is that we don't have twin telepathy it's just that we are born looking the same we are like doppelgangers but we are born with the same mother. You might also think we like the same things but we don't twins are totally different you might think we look the same but we don't. If you are friends with a twin then you might be able to tell them apart you will start thinking we look different and we know. The most fun part is that you get to trick teachers that your the other twin, but its also quiet annoying when the teachers cant tell you apart and they growl the wrong one but the teachers will ask so yea... The other thing is when people give you a present the other twin will get it but when its your friend they will normally tell you apart so not so much a possibility. I hope you liked my blog post about how to be a twin.