ICT talent development

Today at Talent Development we built our robots. The robot we were building was the most basic one. The people in my group were Miro, Caleb and I. We added most or all of the sensors including laser light and sight. Here are some pictures of the robot that my group made.

Gifted Awareness Week

This week is Gifted Awareness Week and we have to write a blog post about being gifted.  Gifted Awareness week is about being aware of gifted children that go to places like Enrich.  Being gifted doesn't mean that you're the best at everything.  It only means that you are better than others in some areas.  Areas that I'm best at are: spelling, reading and ICT.  People are lucky that they are gifted because they get to go to places like Enrich.  These places are good because you get to be around people that are like you.

ICT talent development

Today we watched YouTube tutorials for Scratch.  We watched number 2 and 3.  Number 2 told us how to animate a sprite and number 3 told us how to add sound and make it play.  We made a Scratch using all of these skills.  Here are some links to the tutorials.  Tutorial 3- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAHGERpVCo&feature= Tutorial 2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A_fxYik4Qw&feature=related

ICT talent development

Today I did talent development with Alana and this time we finished off our Alice worlds and watched a scratch tutorial on YouTube and it told us how to create a sprite (character/object), and how to make it have different costumes.  If you think this sounds like fun, follow these links and download them.  There is also a link to the scratch tutorial and some screenshots of my sprite and my Alice world.
http://www.alice.org/-Alice
http://scratch.mit.edu/-Scratch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi9ooZcBBWg&feature+related

Renzulli Giftedness Chart

This morning at Enrich, we did a workshop about Renzulli's giftedness chart.  It is a diagram about giftedness and if a person is gifted or not.  It has three circles all linked together and each circle has something that Renzulli thinks you need to be gifted.  These things are: above average ability, task commitment and creativity.  We read some examples of different people and had to decide if they were gifted or not  For example:  Tim loved making designs for go-karts and he could measure and work out ratios easily. But when he tried to create his go-karts he gave up halfway.  Is Tim gifted?  If you think you know the answer, please comment on this post.  You can look at the diagram for clues.

Talent Development

Yesterday we got to choose what talent development topic we wanted.  The choices were out of ICT, Art or Nature Science.  I chose ICT.  For ICT we looked at programming computer programmes like Alice, Scratch and LEGO Mindstorms.  We watched a video about each one and said what we know and what we don't know about each one.  Alice and Scratch are computer programs but Mindstorms is LEGO.  In Mindstorms you create a Lego robot with pieces that allow your robot to use their five senses. You can make them do really cool things such as sorting out different colours.

Keynote with Darryn

Today I did a keynote workshop with Darryn.  At the workshop we learned how to use keynote.  Keynote is a computer programme that is used to create slideshows for presentations.  We have to learn how to use it because we will have to use it to present our ideas for passion projects.  We learned how to add pictures, text and new slides to a keynote. Here is an example of a practice Keynote presentation that I did at the workshop.