Koru 2 Bromley School

We are nearing the end of week 5 and our digital outcome is almost complete. Here is a video about our learning journey: Hanlin and Paige have been busy creating our website, which is almost complete. Once the website goes live here is the web address:  Bromley Hauora Hub Each of us has completed a self-evaluation which helped us reflect on this learning journey. We are excited to enter our website into the Grow Waitaha Digi Awards.

Koru 2 is well into their Grow Waitaha, Digi Awards journey. This year the theme for the Digi Awards is based on the whakatauki:  Ahakoa he iti, he pounamu–Although it is small, it is precious.  First, we discussed what that might mean to us as a class. The main idea that came out of the discussion was that we could have a positive impact on our community by creating something simple. But what? Meanwhile, Mrs Harris had been having some conversations in the staff room. Here's a video breaking down a problem some of the teachers are having: Our next step was to begin empathizing with this problem and ideating - generating some ideas on how it could be solved. Our big project idea is to build a website resource for teachers. The site will be filled with videos that provoke a certain positive emotion or feeling, for example, calm or focused. The teachers will be able to access these videos for their classes when needed. Some of us even want to create videos for the teachers that ...

On Tuesday we painted our clay birds. It was fun experimenting with and mixing colours to create the correct tones for the wings and other features of our birds. Today we brought our birds to life. We used Keynote to sketch the habitat of our bird. Then we used the green screen to photograph our bird and add instant alpha. Next, we used the animation feature on Keynote to bring our birds to life. We needed to use our computational thinking skills to organise the correct animation commands on keynote. Here are some examples and you can check out everyone's animation on Seesaw.