Week 6 Reflection: Comic Life

Today I have been working on Comic Life Magiq. It is a great application for making posters as it has good tools which allow you to put in stunning pictures which are framed, have cool speech bubbles and amazing fonts. You can also pick from amazing themes and add snowflakes for example to add to the poster you are making. I would rate it a whopping 9/10!

Week 4 Reflection: Khan Academy

Over the last 10 weeks I have been working on a site called Khan Academy. In Khan Academy there are over 2,000 videos from simple addition to learning about the plates under Hawaii. There is also an exercise dashboard where you can practice tonnes of math.

Over the last few weeks I have been working on multiplying decimals. I get so close to passing but then I get a question wrong and have to build up my progress again. B

ut today I have finally past it.

I do Khan Academy for some extension as it has problems up to the chain rule (what is that?). Next time when I get to a task which I have trouble at (like multiply decimals) I am going to stick to the task until I have to get off the computer. Here is a link to Khan Academy: www.khanacademy.org

Show me-speech marks

Our fantastic teacher has just set up something called a learning plan. On it there are things we are supposed to complete before the deadline. One of things we are supposed to do is make a showme on how to use speech marks. Below is the showme.

Animation

Over the last few weeks we have been making animations. They had to have a theme, ours was persisting. Persisting is when you don't give up and below is the animation

IMovie Reflection

In the last few weeks we have been making animations (I am going to embed the animation on another post due to technical issues). I am going to reflect on the second part of the animation when I was working on iMovie (as I have used I can animate before and I haven't used iMovie before). Imovie has a lot of things you can do, you can add sound effects, music and 'scene swappers' ect. But the bad thing is iMovie is very complicated. I recommend iMovie but if you aren't an expert with computers you might need some help.

What is a blog?

A blog is an ICT (Information Communication Technology) tool. It is on the computer and internet-based. Blog stands for web log which is a 'log' on the internet.

Blogs can be used for showing your learning, telling people about yourself, telling people about this amazing adventure you have had, well, basically anything! Other people can have a look on your blog. They could also give you feedback or their ideas, even if they are on the other side of the world!!!

But, you may not want everyone to see it and of course you have to stay safe. So you could change settings so only some people can see your blog. Or only some people be able to to post a comment on it, or nearly anything! Also make sure you know what you are clicking on because it might be a trap!

Now a blog might seem to you like a story book on the internet but it is much better than that! Their are awesome themes and fantastic backgrounds you can can change your blog to. You can also and widgets and gadgets, photos and movies and loads more!

So that's what a blog is, so I would recommend that you try it out!!!

Wiki

Hi I'd like to tell you about a wiki. You will probably not know what a wiki is so I'll tell you. A wiki is a thing where you can share some things about you with another person even if they are on the other side of the world. Our class is doing one with our epals from Green Bay, USA. A few people and I are in charge of the topic of 'our communities'. To share this with our epals we will have to have a tour around our community and take some photos and videos. We could then upload them and put them on a keynote(a bit like Powerpoint) and make a slideshow and then upload it onto the wiki.

Epals

Hi, a few weeks ago our teacher set up epals for our class. They come from Green Bay, USA. The epals website contains fun activities. Oops I just thought you might not know what epals are. They are like penpals but you contact them on the computer by emailing them. If you want to find out some more you could ask me your question by posting a comment(and hopefully I'll know the answer to your question). You could also check out the epals website at www.epals.com