Friday, 25 April 2014

Six Word Memoir - Being weird










"being weird with the people you love"
This is a brilliant selfie me and my mom took and as you can tell we are definitely "different". Me and my mom are so weird with each other and it doesn't matter if we are at home or out in public we are just embarrassing. We took this picture one day when she got home from work, no reason at all it just kind of happened. I love my mom and being weird with her is the best and i wouldn't have it any other way...
Being normal is boring anyway.







                              Photo cred: Xavier Chacon

Six Word Memoir - Unexpected friendship

                         photo cred: James Rogowy.





I decided to use this photo with the caption "Unexpected friendships that will last forever" because i felt it was super fitting for us. I knew all of them but weren't really friends with them ( with the exception of a few). And when i signed up for the fashion show and was put into that group i didn't know what to expect, but it turned out that the fashion show brought us all close and we are all friends now. Without the fashion show we wouldn't have had a reason to become friends and we would have been just fellow grade.12's.We all shared an amazing experience together and i wouldn't have picked a better group of people.

Wednesday, 23 April 2014

Procedural Writing - How to build a Railroad system.

Step 1: Gathering Supplies
First you need to gather Wood, Gold Ore, red stone and Iron Ore in order to build the items we need.







Step 2: Making the power rails
To create power rails you will need to place 3 Gold Ingots on both sides one stick in the middle and 51 Red stone underneath it.





Step 3: Making normal rails
To make building the railroad faster build normal rails to place in between your power rails. To build normal rails you need 3 pieces of Iron Ingots on each side and on stick in the middle.




Step 4: Making Red Stone Torches
You will need Red Stone torches to power your power rails. In order to make a Red Stone torch you will need 1 piece of Red Stone in the middle and a stick right underneath it.



Step 5: Laying down the tracks
Now you're ready to lay down the tracks. First place a power rail and put a red stone torch next to it now place your regular tracks after the power rail keep placing power rails with red stone torches every now and then to keep your railroad running.



Step 6: Making a kart
Now time to make a cart to ride on your railroad! To make a cart you need 5 Iron Ingots and place them in a "U" shape.



Now you've made a Railroad in Minecraft!

Thursday, 27 March 2014

Skype Reflection

(1) What topics did you present?  How did you go about making in "stick" with your audience?
- The topic we presented was the question mark. We went about making it stick by being friendly while presenting and easy to understand.
(2) How do you feel your mini lesson went? Strengths? Weaknesses?
- it went well, i believe our 6 word story was easy to understand, it may have went better if we all went up instead of just john and I.
(3) What did you learn about the process of teaching and learning?
- I learned that it can be fun and it was a great experience teaching grade.4's.
(4) What should we do next?
-  I think we should find another book and read to them again! And take their idea of sending clues until they figure out which book.