Today at Enrich we decided who is going to be in our group for talent development. We also had to choose our topic. My group chose one that we had to do on sport. We had to put down some ideas that we have to do like interviewing, finding things out about sports. Stephen rang Cue TV to see if we could go to them so they can tell us some things about filming.

Week one talent development

Last week I chose one thing to do for talent development. I chose documentaries. We had four stations. One station was about the ILT. We had to write down what the ILT does and things that they help with. Some of those things are rugby,touch rugby, netball,golf,cricket,rowing and tennis.  The second station was one with 60 minutes and we had to watch a documentary. The third one was one that we had to read a book called What is a southlander? We had to write the good things about southland. The last one was about the MADE awards.

Teacher comment

Hyrum your ICT talent development was not only a real challenge with some great learning but also a real passion for you. You were totally engaged with your project at each stage and this was great to see. You have also made the most of all the other opportunities Enrich has offered such as chess, P4C, blogging and learning new ICT skills as well as group challenges. You always have a positive thoughtful approach, which makes you an asset to any group task, game or challenge.

Darryn

Talent Development

Today at Talent development we used Quicktime player to make a tutorial. I made mine on how to make a world on Alice. Mine was 2:36 long If you want to know how to use Alice watch my tutorial.

Reflection on the term
This term one of the enjoyed learning how to use Alice and scratch. The second thing I enjoyed is being able to make a lego mind storm. The one thing that I thought I should have done at the start of the term was the hard things like current events so that I didn't have to worry about them later on in the term.

Robotics

Today at Enrich at talent development Alana showed us how to learn how to programme our lego Mind storms.  You can make them follow a black line and a lot of other things.  We didn't fully finish our robot  but it still goes as well as it would if it was fully built.  I'm going to programme it to follow a black line.

What it means to be gifted.

 

This week it is Gifted Week.  I think that being gifted means you think differently to other people and you need to be challenged.  I like Enrich because I get to work with like minded children.   I like going to Enrich to do things that we don't get to do at primary school.  For example:  P4C, talent development and a whole lot of other things.  At Enrich I can do things that challenge me more.

                                                  

ICT - Scratch

Today for talent development we started learning about the computer programme Scratch.  We watched three tutorials on YouTube.  It taught me a lot about Scratch.  It taught me how to make a person (called a sprite) like that one above.  You can programme the sprite to move, flip and turn in the direction you want it to go.  You can add music so that it plays in the background as well.  I used three pieces of music for my sprite character.  On Scratch you can make games or other things.  I made a slideshow with my sprite moving around.