Pukeko Knows The Answers

What We Did

In class today we had to create an educational based game to teach maori using piskel, scratch and Tipu in schools. My first and only Idea was to do a Pukeko and I think it looks quite cool. I really enjoyed coding my sprite to cry if you got the question wrong and also coding it so confetti would appear around the Pukeko if you got the question right. I found it difficult to transfer my sprite into scratch and thats only because it had a transparent background. Luckily I solved that problem by downloading my sprite on Piskel instead of just taking a screenshot of it. Next time I think I should make the Pukeko actually move it's mouth when it talks because I think it would add a more realistic kind of perspective. 

Did this game help you learn any Maori words? And if it didn't tell me in the comments. 

Tipu In Schools

There is a app we discovered last term called "Tipu in schools". It helps you learn Maori. In our class we all got a journal to write down our Maori notes. In one of my pages in my journal someone wrote "Hi Larz". In pen highlighted in blue highlighter  so I had to rewrite that whole page. Which was quite frustrating. We usually do it in our literacy block. I recommend it. But it does cost money so not everyone can get it.

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What We Did

Isaac, Hunter and I made a Sharp task dedicated the the story we read. This was meant to be on my blog a while ago it's just I forgot to post it. Something I thought was fun in the making of the video was the acting part because its was fun to put on a voice and have different names and stuff. I also found it fun that we could put humour in the story. Like when I dropped the mike because it's the news where everything is breaking and then I quit. And also like when Isaac said "Hi mum" at the end. Something. I found it challenging to write because we were outside so I had to write it on my lap and I was frustrating. 

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What We Did
For cybersmart we had to get pictures and create some for certain things. This certain challenge was called "Copyright Challenge". I got all the images off explore because of copyright. You can't notice because I took a screenshot of it so there isn't the link for them. The pictures and drawings we had to get were based on these, name, age, favourite subject in school, something we think is cool, favourite animal, favorite food, favorite colors, favorite thing to do, family, where we want to go, our home country and our nickname, nicknames for me. What I enjoyed doing was making all of my own pictures. What I didn't enjoy was nothing I enjoyed all of it. Something I found challenging was the home country and where we want to go. The reason I found them challenging was because I created the country's in polyline first but then I got the images for them. I think it was more annoying than challenging. I got all the images off explore because of copyright. You can't notice because I took a screenshot of it so there isn't the link for them.   

🇳🇿 𝕄𝕪 ℙ𝕚𝕤𝕜𝕖𝕝 🇳🇿

What We Did
For a cybersmart task we had to go to a app called piskel and I decided to make a Pukeko. In the process of making this I felt it really enjoyable. One of the reasons is that I really love art and this is kind of a digital way of drawing but its pixelated. I found it easy to colour the Pukeko in because there's a tool that just fills it in. What I found challenging was getting the right body shape. It was also challenging  to make the Pukeko talking because it looked like a t-rex mouth at the start. I obviously just took screenshots of both of the movements but on the app its an animation. I've also created a lot of different animations but I decided just to post this one. I'm probably going to post the others later on though.

💻 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞💻

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What We Did
The video we created was for a sharp task. We had to read the story and then do a video about it. And one of the most enjoyable parts was writing our own script. We still had to keep the most important parts of the story though. It was a fun challenge coverting what happend in the story and putting in a news report. One of the most enjoyable parts was writing the script. One of the harder things was figureing out how to put the video on my blog. First I downloaded the video and that didn't work. But then I found out that I could just put the link in and make it so anyone can view it. This video was created in week seven by me Hunter and Issac.

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Covid 19 In New Zealand

1. My family

2. Covid 19 in Gisborne

3. NZ compared to other countries

On the 23rd of March our prime minister, Jacinda Ardern announced

that NZ would be going into stage 4 lockdown on Wednesday night.

I strongly agree that it was a good idea to go into lockdown because

New Zealand in my opinion is doing reasonably well.

If Jacinda Ardern hadn't of put us into lock down it could have

spread quicker

and doubled the cases. At the moment NZ only has 1,149 cases. In

Gisborne there is only one case that is very low. New Zealand is

doing really well and the cases are low and hopefully it stays that way.

In my family there are 6 us in a 90 square meter house.

Staying in the same place for

8 weeks was a struggle. I started to go crazy after 3 weeks and the

fact that we had to go in lock down for another month after the first

month ended made me mad. But we were staying home for a good

reason so it didn't matter if I was going crazy. Everytime when I sat

on my couch I could see quite a lot of cars go by but I'll get to that in

the next paragraph. My older brothers kept annoying me for no reason

and I just wanted them to disappear for a little while. My sister and I

would go for a walk everyday and my brothers would go for a run

everyday. One day we would go for a short walk and the next day

we would go for a long walk.

Gisborne is doing quite well. I guess it helps a tiny bit that Gisborne

isn't huge but I don't think that's the main reason. The main reason

Gisborne is doing well is because of the 40,000 people who are

staying in doors. Even though I said that I saw a lot of cars go past

the lounge window Gisborne still appears to be doing well. But I live

on one of the main roads, Ormond Road. But I don't think there were

a lot of cars because they needed stuff I think it's because people

thought the world was ending and they needed to get supplies.

That's only my opinion. Maybe it's just that a lot of people needed

stuff on the same day. 

The whole of New Zealand is doing really well compared to other

countries. The United States Of America have 1.52 million confirmed

cases of Covid 19. Around 281K people have recovered from

Covid 19 in America. In Mainland China there are 82,947 cases

confirmed. 78,227 have recovered from Covid 19 in Mainland

China. Australia which is one of the most nearest countries from

New Zealand has 7,086 Covid 19 cases. 6,367 have recovered

from Australia.

Hopefully some of the information I wrote has made you think

it was a good idea for Jacinda Ardern to put New Zealand in

lock down. And you might have learned something new from

this. Also in New Zealand 1,433 people have recovered

from Covid 19.