Planning the Pass-Bot...

In Term 2 a group of children from Tangaroa attended the Digi Awards workshop.  During the workshop, they listed all the things they could explore based on our school theme of 'Identity.'  This ranged from ideas about our school values to how we look after our digital identity.  After a lot of discussions and further exploration, it was decided the group would explore how to be cybersmart.

To check they were on the right track they surveyed groups of children from each studio.  I created a google site that had relevant information for the students to explore and they used docs to share their ideas.

During the planning stage, they came up with three possible adverts.  One about how to make a 'strong' passwords, one about your digital footprint and one advert to promote your wellbeing if you are a gamer.

Below are some of the ideas the students had about their password ad.  Many of them didn't make it to the final storyboard and a lot did!

Slicing and dicing each group's storyboard to come up with one draft storyboard...

The Digi Group thought we could use walking fingers...but then how would be stick underpants on?

Prototype of The Pass-Bot...

Some of the final storyboard for the Pass-Bot...

To find out more about the Adverts visit the Digi Group's blogs:

Joanna
Milly
Lewis

Digital Footprint advert...

After completing their survey they found out a lot of students at Rāwhiti School were on Instagram and some younger students didn't know how to look after their digital footprint.

This was the research that inspired the second advert the Digi Group made about our digital footprint. They watched the video's from the Manaiakalani site about being Cybersmart.  I made a google site that had links for the Digi Group (Year 7 & 8 students) to carry out some research.

At the start none of the group knew what it meant to keep your digital footprint 'clean' and the impact this could have for their future.

This advert was filmed down at New Brighton Beach - we took a photo near the shipwrecked boat!

Read more on Lewi's blog - click here.

The Beebots are going to a Party!

What a great bunch of outfits for the Beebots!  It was a challenge to try and make two Beebots dance at the same time... 

3D Printing...

We have a 3D printer that sits in our library space.  It was gathering some dust....now it has been swung into action!

Last term a small group of children learnt some basic skills in Tinkercad to design a simple keyring with their name.  Using the process of Design Thinking, they then had to design, model and create a keyring for a member of their family or for a friend.

The most difficult part for the students was modelling in Tinkercad.  They had to look at their whole shape and break this down into smaller shapes.  These shapes could then be grouped together or parts removed to create their desired shape.

'I learnt how to dig in and out and how to put holes in things.  I now know how to change the view of the keyring (when I'm modelling in Tinkercad), how to rotate the shapes around and lift the shapes up and down.  Next time I would change the hole to be a star because a circle is a bit boring.  Brooke (Tāwhirimātea)

'I learnt how to dig in and out of my shape and how to group objects together.'  I had to re-size my plane, so it would print bigger.'  Liam (Tāwhirimātea)