Tech Reflection

Today it was another great session back at Tech. The year 8A have been creating art designs of an apple using different types of colours like oil pastels and chalk pastels. The picture on the top shows a photo of our art. I learnt how to blend in well with the chalk pastel and the oil pastel. To blend in well with the chalk pastel you need to use the scissors to scrap of some chalk pastel. Then use a cotton ball to dab some shavings and use the colour on the apple. Start blending in with other colours such as orange and yellow. If you do get the colour over the outline just rub it out with a rubber. It works really well.

3D Sketching

Today the year 8A have finished another session of graphics with Mrs Ferguson. We are learning to create clocks so this photo shows our practice on 3D drawings/ Sketch . This will help us draw our clock designs. I learnt how to shade my 3D shapes using my pencil/colouring pencil. To create those white spaces in the shapes you will need to create a 3D box. Then while shading leave a skinny space on the top and side. Next you will need to create a darker shade using pencil on the dark coloured box. Lastly you draw shade near the dark shade. You draw this so it will look like the square is sitting on something.

Technology Lesson 1

This week for tech it was our first say back. The Year 7 are with Mr Grundy, Year 8A is with Mrs Ferguson and the Year 8B is doing metal. I am in Year 8A and with Mrs Ferguson we are creating clocks. This DLO shows all the different type of clocks that I have found. Creating this DLO it gives me different ides on what type of clock I want to make for a specific person.

Design Brief

What

What type of shape are you going to design?

What type of clock do you need?

Who

Who are you going to design a clock for?

Where

Where are you going to use the clock?

Why

Why do you need a clock?

Why are you giving the clock to this person?

How

How is the clock going to be made?

How is the clock going to be designed?

How long will it take to make?

 On this DLO it shows questions that reflects on what type of clock we are going to use, The design you are using and who you are going to make it for. We all communicated with each other the figure out some questions.

Design Models

Today at tech with Mrs Ferguson we have been making models of phones stands. We used plastecine. I thought of different designs to create phone stands. I done three models. My favourite model was the hear one because I thought it was cool. How does this design support my phone? It supports it by holding the phone to make sure it won't fall forwards. I think out of all the phone stands Alex's chair case is the most smartest and coolest. How can you improve it? I would improve it by making my case look more better by molding it properly.

Digital Project - Initial Planning

In DigiTech today, we started the initial planning for out Digitech project. We stared of with a game of Kahoot to remind us what our animated stories needed. We then got into our tasks. Our task included completing the following task :

Context Brainstorm
Conceptual Statement
Panning Time frames

The purpose of the context brainstorm is to help us identify the different places in the Tamaki Area.


The purpose of the Conceptual Statement was to write down our own opinions telling others the the age rate of our stories.

The purpose of the Planning Timeframe is to tell us how much time each task will be incase of a animated story.

Tech

This week friday was Tech. It was my first time ever to tech and I enjoyed it a lot. So we first got into the bus. When we got at Tamaki College we got into our groups. I was in the year 7 groups. Our techer ws Mr Grundy but we had to call him Sir. We learnt about making a necklace. We could do any shape. But... We had to fill in a DlO with the people we wanna do the necklace for. We had to write down their name.( We had to pick 4 people). THen we had to add in 4 things they like to do or what they are good at. After we watcher Sir create a fish. It was super cool and I learnt some new facts their like pewtur metal. When you melt the metal and if it touches you it will still keep burning it woun't be like touching a iron it stops after but the metal keeps burning and once it stops you will have to remove the solid metal. I had so much fun on my first day back at tech.