Makey Makey!

INTRODUCTION
  It's been a while since my last blog about my DTE learning. Here I am again to tackle the topic and the project we've been working on the last term and until 2 weeks of this term. So our topic is about Makey Makey. So what is a makey makey?. Makey makey is a tool where people can use it to connect everyday objects to computer programs. (below is the photo in the DLO part) So to make it work you will need the makey makey, wires, usb cable, and a conductor ( can be you! cause you yourself is a conductor).  You need these things to create a circuit and then you will see how it works.
  
  What are we going to do with the makey makey?. Mr. Carter assigned us to research on how can we use makey makey. Then we chose what ideas we wanted to make out of makey makey and we'll create it by ourselves.

DLO
   We decided to do a controller. Heart-shaped controller specifically. And here it is:

Here's the plan

REFLECTION
   Actually, our controller is not yet finished and it's not yet tested if it will work. Our original plan wasn't like this. The first plan is to create a controller and just put foil all over the bottom of the controller to make it easier and it will just one wire. But that made our problem. Mr. Carter showed that perspective to us and he helped us how to solve it. The point is to separate foil every button. Why? Because if we are going to use one foil, with one tap in a button all of them will work and we want is for buttons to work by themselves with one tap without affecting the other buttons. It seems complicated, yes, we found it like that too but it was making sense. We reversed the plan. We decided to cut some pieces of foil enough to cover the buttons. That solved the problem :).
   
   Our supposedly next step is to decorate it and to actually use it in a game but we lacked time. But it's alright because I found out that Devie ( one of my groupmates) worked on how to make it work. And she managed to check it and it worked. If only we really had time, I could say that it would be successful but it's undone.

RESOURCE
    The resources that we used are tools such as cardboard, scissors, tape, foil, pencil, wires, and clay.

QUESTION
    Have you checked out Makey Makey? Why not try it? 

Mechatronics vs. Robotics

 Hi everyone!. I'm gonna share to you today my infographic about mechatronics and robotics. Most of the people mistaken robotics as same as mechatronics. Well, it is not. Robotics is literally a field of mechatronics. It will tell here in my infographic about the meaning of these two topics.

Sources:
piktochart.com

www.nomajordrama.co.nz
www.canterbury.ac.nz

Growing NZ Innovation Challenge

INTRODUCTION
  What's up everyone! For the past 5 weeks, we are working on our project in DTE which is related to our lives today. We are given a problem and there's a challenge for us to solve and make a solution. In our class, there are 6 groups with different topics. All of the topics have something to do with the problems that NZ is facing today. Mr. Carter let us chose our topic and the topic we resolved is the 'Careers and Capabilities'. The problem in this subject matter is that the primary sector is struggling to attract learners to study the field of agri-science and business industry despite the fact that these fields have too many opportunities to offer. The challenge for us was to create a solution on how should primary industries should do to persuade young learners to be interested in agri-science and business industries to make our industry have its sustainable, efficient, productive and high-yielding sectors.

DIGITAL LEARNING OBJECT (DLO)
   This is our presentation regarding to what topic we've picked. Here you can see what is our problem and challenge(which I already mentioned above), our solution, the two enablers that we used, our research, prototype, and a video presenting the importance of agriculture in our generation.



REFLECTION
     Last week on Friday, we exhibited our presentation to our class. Our topic is about agri0science and business industries.I'd say that I am proud of my group's work because I know that our struggles paid off and we reached our success in presenting what we wanted to show them. In this unit, I'm not the leader anymore. I passed it over to Ofa. I would like to be their leader again( which I really did) but Ofa did amazing in leading us. Her leadership was very different from mine. We have different styles in handling the group. I am more hands-on to every member and I could say that she's more on giving us the comfort and leisure time but it worked well. I am happy that we managed to overcome all the hardships throughout the project and I am really satisfied.
  
  My groupmates are still my groupmates last time. Ofa, Devie and Wardah. Sadly, Wardah didn't attend almost 4 weeks in school. We lost a member which was really hard because her assistance is a big help to us. But I hoped she enjoyed her vacation there. Actually, to be honest, we really struggled in this one. At first, we can't really get the grasp of the topic. And I really thank Mr. Carter for giving us the knowledge to solve our problem and for giving patience to make us understand what we should we do and how we should do on our topic. Doing our prototype was totally the most stressing one and it is the part we used our full effort. I even came home at 5 pm for doing our prototype. In the end, it was all worth it.

  Every group in our class did a great job. It is so heart-warming when you see your classmates trying their best (some of them) to solve a problem. Unfortunately, many still have their stage fright when presenting. Overall, it is great except for the way they presented. I want them to present confidently because their ideas are amazing and it is deserving to be shown and introduced. 

RESOURCES
tinkercad.com- Our prototype
http://www.stuff.co.nz-  Our research

QUESTIONS
Have you looked into my slides? Go check it!
Do you know what's agri-science? If you had the chance to be educated about this field, would you be interested?

WORD App Achieved!

Introduction:
Hello everybody! I'm so happy to be back again and tell you my good news about my learnings and progress in DTE. We already finished the app! I know it sounds unbelievable but yes. Our app is not we really expected but we are satisfied with it cause we know that we put our big efforts to it.

Digital Learning Object:
WORD App. Here's our app. Check it and if you can please leave me a feedback and we'll try to improve it as best as we can :).

Reflection:

Actually, this app was not our original plan. We revised or should I say changed completely our first plan. Our first plan was to make an app about chatbots but we altered into something that will make it more simpler but still relatable in our vision. We have lots of ideas like creating a game like kahoot, putting some quotes and positive sayings for them, establishing levels for the game, create background music and etc. And guess what? we struggled again. Suddenly, Mr. Carter saved our falling hope. He improved our ideas into broader and useful for our app. Here's his lecture to what should we do in our app.

Since Mr. Carter's ideas were really really helpful and make a lot more sense, we decided to follow his guide. As you can see in the photo there is a hub in the center(of course, it's a hub!) it is the main idea of this project. Then, in its side which is like a mind map, you will see branches and properties like videos, contacts, positive comments, games and research. Those branches are for the button to click and contents are there. After that, we already have to do the actual app making. With the help of code.org we managed to do it. It was sincerely hard. Not only because we are just a beginner but it was also a challenge. There are things that we cannot do in the app lab section of the code.org. We need to put some links to the buttons for people to let click and get through the videos or games but the app lab didn't allow us.

For your information, Mr. Carter made us choose our group. It was a benefit for me cause I've got to experience to bond with people that I haven't know. Ofa, Wardah and Devie were my groupmates. I did the coding and some research, Ofa did most of the research, Devie and Wardah tried the applab and informed me what things can I do in the applab.If you read my blog posts last time about our planning session, I mentioned there how happy I am when I'm grouped with them. And today I'm going to remark it again, I am so lucky to have them on my team. As their leader, I can say that we did a great job aside from the fact that our app is not that really successful in terms of content and design. But what's more important is that I experience how to struggle and how to look forward instead of being drowned in the difficulties we did. I exerted so much effort in this activity and finishing it is an accomplishment for me. Thanks to my groupmates. Yes, I admit that they are not the ideal groupmates and I'm not the perfect leader but we clicked. I always make sure that they are not suffering a lot and I tried to make them smile and laugh even though when I know to myself that I'm not in the mood to crack jokes. 

Overall, my experience in this work was tough and worth it. Our app is not perfect. It has many flaws. We accepted this truth because we are just starting off especially, we struggled to make this app. There's so much stuff happened before we managed to achieve at least the best that we can put off. What's important to me is that we succeeded in making it and we had fun while the group is doing it.

Feedbacks from other students who checked our app:

Lila Hughes (10 Tn)

"It was an amazing app but there are errors that I've seen. I've checked one video that says "6 ways to cure depression" but then it doesn't really tell me how to CURE depression. And also the games, if your app wants to help people that are depressed why don't you added some really helpful interactive apps like how to breathe properly and etc." 

Lenora Taotua Lavea ( 10 Hy)

"That was good, that will get people to try and help themselves throughout there sufferings. It was good for you or your group added many ways that could help others get through depression."

Sources:

www.code.org/applab

Question:

Would you like to try our app give me some feedback?

How about trying code.org and share you app too?

Planning to Make it!

                               Good day everyone! So today I'm back on my blog about my DTE learning. Last week until now, we are working on planning on creating an app. This is a group work and I am grouped with Devie, Warda, and Ofa. We called our group "The Superlatives".                                  

                               We had our discussion of what we're going to do for our project called 'Operation: Create an App'. We decided to make an app for the people who have depression but it can also be for everyone who will use it. We talked about what kind of app it will be and we agreed that it will be a chatbot. Then we started our actual scheme for the app.

Direct Learning Object:

Padlet

Coggle.

Reflection:
                              We used the websites Padlet and Coggle for our planning session. These websites are so useful because we can share it with each other and cooperate with the planning we are doing and they are also free!.Padlet is like a bulletin board but on the online way. You can choose what kind of wall or theme you want to use. You can put pictures, videos, links and stuff there which is good because it is in your hand what kind of wall you fancy for. The thing that I just didn't like about this web is that you need to refresh it over and over again when someone did some change or edit the work. It's like you are in the same place but all the things you do are complicated because it doesn't settle at the same time.
                         
                               While on the other side, Coggle is like a mind map to help you organize your plans and thoughts about a certain topic. It helps us to put our ideas together when we are using it. In fact, we added some more information in our plan when we used this website. I am fascinated when I used especially when a new branch is added (it's like colorful corals :) ). I just struggle how to use at first but overall it's convenient to use.
                     
                                I think I've picked the right group. When I was working with them I always smile and laugh. We suit for each other, we understand what stand every person in our group suggests, we collaborate our ideas to make a simple and creative scheme.I am not saying that we are the best group of most of all but I can say that this experience of working with each other is great cause everyone is engaged to participate and happy to work with. Our group is not perfect but we try as possible as we can to communicate to each other. Actually, I am the leader of this group and I am trying my best to be their motivator and the carrier of the team. Even though I am the leader, I can't feel I am the leader at all cause everybody is being given the chance to be the leader and I think what's more important. I really hope that we can start creating the app.
                         
                                 What I've got by doing this project of ours is that it might be hard starting making an app and we are still struggling but if you have people that are in your group struggling it will be worth it. This planning that we did is a good start for us and I hope we can continue to make it because it is really hard to make.I've learned that working hard is good to blend with fun. It does makes you enthusiastic of what you want to achieve.

Resources:
https://padlet.com
coggle.it/plans

Questions:
 Do you think we can accomplish to create our app? How about trying Padlet and Coggle on your education purposes? Good day! Thank you!

                     

Be Internet Awesome!

Title: Be Internet Awesome!

Introduction:
Hi everyone! It is your beautiful blogger Roanne joke! Welcome back to my blog.Our topic for today is representing Interland. We were taught about digital citizenship and safety by Mr. Carter. To make digital citizenship and safety be more understandable and to expand our knowledge about the topic, we were assigned to visit Interland. After we play and explore Interland, we did some analysis of it. By using google docs, we outline the purpose of Interland and the concept of the program.


Direct Learning Object :

 Interland is designed by Google and partnered with iKeepSafe, Connect Safety and Family Online Safety Institute.

Reflection:     

                 In my analysis, I separated what are the content and design of every level I played.Let's talk about Tower of Treasures. The Tower of Treasures aims to show how to be keen on creating a strong password and reliable password. To keep our passwords and individual’s privacy.The design is on a desert island where there is a tower and you are going to gather letters and symbols to make a unique password. I love how you can control is sideways and you can also jump. Remember to be careful cause you might get bumped on the rocks and the hacker will steal your collected letters and symbols. Second, the Mindful Mountain. This level teaches us to be aware and cognizant when we are sending info to others. It allows you to use your intellectual thinking when accomplishing the task cause it's like a puzzle. Your task is to transfer the information to the right and appropriate person or place.You are going to hit a mirror and that reflects in other mirrors or internaut so you should be careful cause you might hit the wrong internaut. I like the settings of this level wherein there's snow and the place is on ice. Then, we have Kind Kingdom which helps you to learn how to spread kindness and positivity in the online world. It helps us to create a mindset that we should not let others suffer in cybercrimes.To help them, you have to give them kindness like good comments, love, and likes and save them from the evil internauts.I love the fact that when you are eliminating the bad ones you should be careful cause you might hit the victims and will deduct your scores. Here we got Reality River that tests our knowledge of what we are going to do if scam and fake stuff come our way while we are surfing the internet.It lets you answer a question and pick the right and most accurate answer to what you should do when scam or fake things happen if you are online and when you got the wrong answer, you will fall in the river.I love how it has a set time for you to finish every question and the sound of the character when it got the right answer. I also like when the bad Internaut is commenting but I still can get the right answer which make it upset.
It is good to have this kind of program to inform everyone that internet has its own disadvantage in our life and it's our responsibility to take our own action when we are in the online world. While playing Interland, I was really into it. I really support Google for creating this such wonderful program for everyone. It is highly recommended and is beneficial for internet users especially the youth. There was a question in the analysis where it says if I would recreate this game what it would be? Well, I won't recreate a new one but I will just add more features to the game. Like more levels to play with so users will not be left hanging waiting for more levels to play. I would improve the graphics where it is suitable for everyone and is more striking to everyone. Maybe upgrade the Internauts where they would be cooler and fun to use as characters. I hope Google would build more projects that are relevant to our generation. Enlighten everybody to be INTERNET AWESOME.

Resources:
https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en/interland

Question:
Would you like to visit Interland and share some info about it?
Go have some fun and be informed in terms of Digital Citizenship and Safety!

Tips for Practical Ergonomics at your Workplace

                 This blog is about ergonomic infographic which is our first lesson for the Term 1 in Digital Technology (DTE). I used Piktochart for my ergonomic infographic. I tried Canva and Vengage but I found Piktochart more manageable to use. I chose Piktochart because it has more graphics that are useful to my infographic like the icons that you can see in my infographic. Sometimes Piktochart does lag when I use it. It just suddenly stops and then I can't edit my work anymore but fortunately, it saves my work which makes me be satisfied besides the fact that it lags.

                 In my infographic shows what are practical ergonomics when you are at work. There you can see tips which are essential things you can do when you are using your computer , sitting, movement and there are also more tips when you're at your workplace.

Reflection:

                 It was fun editing my ergonomic infographic and I am really satisfied with the outcome of my piece. I've learned that making an ergonomic infographic should be consistent. Consistent with fonts, icons, structure of how you do the paragraphs and etc. At first, my infographic was not really had consistency but thanks to Mr. Carter he taught me how to make it more look like an infographic. If next time we'll do this kind of work, I'll make sure that I'll manage my time to do it faster than I did last time.

Resources:

Taskworld Chatchai Saengpetch / July 31, 2014

http://blog.taskworld.com/tips-for-practical-ergonomics-in-your-workplace-infographic

Comment down below what you think about my ergonomic infographic! I'd love to hear it.

Thank you!