Two stars and a wish

Today is the last day of enrich for the term and we have to write our two stars and a wish. Our stars are things that we are proud of or things that we enjoyed. Our wish is what we want to happen next term. My first star is ICT talent development where we did Alice, Scratch and Lego Mindstorms because it was really fun doing it and I love ICT. My second star is Current Affairs because I did them most weeks and they were something to do in my spare time. My wish is to find out about some of the computer applications we don't use like Sketchup and I Can Animate.

ICT talent development

Today at talent development we started to make a tutorial about Scratch or Alice. I did an Alice one about events and methods. It showed you how to make a cowboy scene and the cowboy shoots the sheriff. You can also walk around. We used Activinspire screen recorder to record us doing the thing that we were doing our tutorial about.

ICT talent development

Today we got to programme our robots. We made a program on the computer and then downloaded it to the robot. My favourite program was follow a line. We had a special mat covered with lines and we made the robot follow them. Here is a link to a website about the robots.http://www.nxtprograms.com/

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