Thursday, 15 October 2020

Creating Original Media

 Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were learning about creating original media. That means that if we create it, we own it and we can share it and use it wherever we want to.

We took a selfie using the camera app on our iPad and we edited it using the tools on our iPad. We had to duplicate our photo so our original one stays the same. On our duplicates we used the filters and found the "Noir" filter to make a black and white version. Then we found the Markup tool and used the Magnifier to make our eyes larger. This was a lot of fun.

We had to upload our photos from our iPad to our Drive as well. We are getting really good at doing this.

Here is a collage of Alatini's 3 photos...

Here is a collage of India's photos...



Thursday, 17 September 2020

Maths Quiz

Do you like Maths? Room 6 loves Maths! Today we made a maths quiz in Scratch Jnr. 

We had to think of a maths equation then create 2 incorrect answers and one correct answer. We had to code it so the player would know if they had chosen the right answer. We had to also think of a kind way to tell the player that they had chosen the incorrect answer. 

Scratch Jnr is an app on our iPads and you can download the app for free and use it on android tablets as well. You can use Scratch Jnr to program your own interactive stories and games. When we are doing this we are learning to solve problems, design projects, and be creative by using our computational thinking.

Here is Marley's work. This is a screen recording so it is not interactive but it shows how the quiz works.


Here is Jethro's work.
 This is a screen recording so it is not interactive but it shows how the quiz works.

Thursday, 10 September 2020

Insects Playing - Scratch Jnr

 Today we continued creating our story in Scratch Jnr. We added a second scene and coded it to change scenes. We put ourselves in a a sprite as well with our face in the sprite. we did this in the Paint editor and used the camera.

Here is Charlotte's story...

Here is India's story...

Thursday, 3 September 2020

Stories in Scratch Jnr

 This week in our Cybersmart lesson we were learning how to create a story in Scratch Jnr. Scratch Jnr is an app on our iPads and you can download the app for free and use it on android tablets as well..

You can use Scratch Jnr to program your own interactive stories and games. When we are doing this we are learning to solve problems, design projects, and be creative. 

Today we were starting a story with 2 sprites meeting each other. Here is JC's work. Can you hear how he has made the 2 voices different? Ka pai JC!

Wednesday, 26 August 2020

Bug house visit

This week we visited our school bug house as part of our inquiry unit on creatures!

Thursday, 20 August 2020

3 Little Pigs Puppet Show

 We have been reading "The 3 Little Pigs" in Room 6. 

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we made a Puppet Show in Explain Everything. We had to remember how to take a photo and lasso only the bits we wanted. Today we learned how to use the scalpel tool to do this. We cut the characters out carefully like a surgeon. Then we animated our characters and recorded our voices to make the puppet show. We tried to make our voices different for each character. 

Here is Kymani's Puppet Show. Mrs Torrie made a video with it. Can you see how carefully he cut out the characters?

Thursday, 30 July 2020

Kawa of Care

In today's Cybersmart lesson we went over our Kawa of Care.
One new thing we learnt was that we need to be careful when taking our headphone out of the iPad. We need to hold the hard plug to pull them out.

We used Explain Everything and took photos of a buddy using their iPad correctly.
We had to remember where to find the camera and how to lasso only the parts we wanted.
Here are some of the photos from our work today.