Year 8s... on the moon?

Hi Bloggers!

The end of the year is approaching quickly so the year 8s had to make our video.

Emma, from Whitebait media, helped us with the video so we got 'Professional' equipment. Everyone found that filming the video was really fun and the end product is amazing. So enjoy the photos of what we have been doing to get the video ready for the end of year assembly next week...

That was the photos. I really liked the last slide with us on the moon.

We all really enjoyed looking around Whitebait and we like the end product.

We also got a tour around Whitebait media, that's when we took a photo by the green screen.

I used that photo and remove.bg to get us on the moon.

What do you think the video will have? Have you ever filmed a video? Have you ever used remove.bg? It was fun to use to make us go to random places.

Until next time...

Bye!

Quick keyboard shortcuts...

 Hi Bloggers!

For this blog I decided to share some keyboard shortcuts. These are just some easy ones with some that you might not know. I use these all the time. Mostly; Control C and V, Control X and Z. I hope you learn something new in this blog post.

Enjoy...

That was everything. There are lots more shortcuts but these are just a few that I have learnt and some of them I use all the time.

I think that using these shortcuts makes everything faster, like typing and making things digitally. How many of these did you know? How often do you use shortcuts? What are some other shortcuts you know.

I hope these help you with your typing and digital creations.

Until next time...

Bye!

Strings... is our coach?

 Hi!

Starting last, last week we have been learning how to play...

Soft ball.

Not very many of us know how to play and it's fun since everyone is learning. For the first session we ran around the bases and practiced throwing and catching in cones. Then last week we practiced fielding and hitting the ball. Then also practiced some more throwing and catching techniques. For those we got taught by Strings. (Yes she told us to call her that.) 

Then this Monday we got taught by Stella and played a very simple game. We split into two groups and each had goes at hitting the ball, running then also fielding to get the ball back in time.  We don't have any pictures at the moment so I will share more of what we learnt.

Watch this Biteable to find out more of what we learnt.

I hope these tips/information helps if you would like to start learning.

But I suggest that you find more proper information before starting since this blog doesn't have everything and we are still all learning.

This is a inclusive game depending on if you are running or batting it is still fun for everyone.

We have started learning this a couple of years ago but it didn't go for that long.

So some of us know some parts of the game and know what it's like.

Have you ever tried softball? 

If yes, what do you like to do best? 

Do you have any tips?

If you are going to give this ago...

HAVE FUN.

But remember to not be hit by the ball, it's not a good thing.

Until next time...

Bye!

The 50 Stars...

 Hi Bloggers!

Last, last Wednesday was a weird day for Rimu since lots of people were out of class.

But the year 7&8s got the honors of being taught by Mr Robertson for the day.

He decided we would be learning about the US election, we looked up lots of things and put it all in one DLO. This was a fun break from what we usually do and it was interesting learning about Donald Trump's family tree. I'll give you a hint on what's to come: (His nephew's picture on google is a house.)

Here's the DLO...

I hope you enjoyed it or learnt something new.

Here's a couple of other main things I learnt:

- Trump's plan was very short and sharp

- Biden's plan was more in depth

- Trump's family tree

Read the slide to finding out more about each of these.

What did you learn? What would you look into? Do you have anything to add?

I hope you found this interesting and maybe want to find out more.

But for now, until next time...

Bye!

House Hippos... (They live in your chips)

Hello bloggers,

Today is Tuesday so you know what that means... CYBERSMART.

We had lesson 3; How do you evaluate media?

Firstly we watched a video about a house hippo... obviously hippos' aren't in houses. So this is misleading information. So we learnt how to identify these things and see if it is real or...

FAKE!

Then we looked at a snickers advertisement and had to find everything wrong with the image. For example in the picture there was lots of photoshop and other things that just didn't make any sense.

Finally we got to do some creativity work. We found a quote then made a graphic for it. I found this quote from "Brainy Quote."

I found making the graphic for this really fun since there are words like looking, thinking, interesting and knowing. So I could do cool things with those words. Here is what I made with this quote...

That was the graphic I made. My favourite part of it would be the looking part. Overall this lesson was really fun and interesting to see a really, really unnatural advertisement.

Have you ever seen any strange advertisements that just don't make sense? Have you ever believed any of them? Do you agree with this quote?

Until next time... Bye!

Athletics day. An article....

 Hi Bloggers/Commenters.

Today is a Tuesday so that means... Cybersmart!

This week and last week we were working on lesson two: LINK.

It was called: How is media constructed.

Media products are made to do these types of things: sharing, advertising, entertaining, etc.

We learnt that there are lots of different types of media.

Here are a few: Newspaper, videos, social media, etc.

Articles are one of them, so for this lessons create task we made an article each about...

ATHLETICS DAY!

We also learnt what each part of an article is called, here is a picture of what I connected...

Here is my article and some pictures of our house colour relays...

I hope you enjoyed the article I wrote.

I really enjoyed learning about different Medias and something I learnt was that the authors name is the byline.

I never knew that it and it something new to me.

Did you know what a byline was? How often do you read articles? Have you ever written one? If yes what was it about?

Until next time...

Bye!

NYLD... What could it mean?

 Hi!

Last week on Friday was NYLD.

National Young Leaders Day.

It was so much fun and we learnt lots about leadership and there were lots of inspiring speakers.

Here is a slide that has some of the things I remember from this experience and a couple of photos too.

Enjoy...

That was the slide.

I hope you learnt something from it as well.

If you ever get the opportunity to go then DEFINITELY take it.

There are also some fun games that you can take part in.

Have you ever gone to NYLD? 

If you have what is one of the main things you learnt? 

Would you choose to go there?

Its super fun and I would definitely recommend it to anyone!

(I got the Ninja turtles and Mario's autographs!)

Until next time...

Bye!