Category: Hanga | Create

Real or Fake?

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were looking at images and deciding if they were real or fake.

Then we created a fake animal ourselves by combining 2 animals together. We removed backgrounds and used the magic eraser so we only had the parts we needed. We added a background so it looked real.

Then we made an image of an animal in a place where you wouldn’t usually wouldn’t see them. Some of us used a short video and we could remove the background on this as well. Some of us used custom animation to make a still image move.

Here is Wattie’s mahi…

Wattie Amazing Animals

What is Media?

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were thinking about Media, what it is, where we see it and what we use. Then we used Canva and created a video about the media we use. We had to search for icons or images. We added them and thought about animating them so they move and catch our eye. We added a background that fits and doesn’t take over the design. We had to rename our project and share it into a folder so our teacher can see our work. We also added audio to complete the design.

Here is Joshua’s work so far…

Joshua What isMedia

 

Using our Chromebook to do the Mahi

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we turned on 2 accessibility features on our Chromebooks: Select-to-speak & Dictation.

Select-to-speak enables us to select some text on our screen and our Chromebook will read it to us. This can be a word, a sentence, a paragraph or a whole page.

Dictation allows us to speak to our device and it will type the text for us.

We practised using these 2 features today to read about birds and answer some questions.

Here is Atena’s mahi.

Screenshots on a Chromebook

Today we were learning how to take screenshots on our Chromebooks. We also learned how to open up link from our slides so we were in the place to take the screenshot.

Here is some of our mahi…
Daphne

Zahlia

Tangrams

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were creating tangrams. We used the Tangram Builder on Mathigon – an online tool.

If you click on a shape in Mathigon it will give you the outline to help you. We had to rotate some shapes to make them fit and we had to use all 7 pieces in our Tangram. We took a screenshot of our tangram and inserted it into the slides below.

Click here if you would like to try to create Tangrams.

Which shape do you think is the easiest to make? Which one do you think is the most difficult?

Matariki Stars

We were drawing Matariki stars today using 2 triangles in Google Slides. Actually – we drew one triangle, formatted it to how we wanted it to look, duplicated it and rotated it upside down to make the star.

We also used Geoboard – an online tool. We made a star with digital rubber bands. It reminded us of the plastic geoboards we used when we were little juniors.

Here is Eli’s mahi. There are screenshots of other designs in Geoboard Eli created on slide #3.

Here is Eli’s work.

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