Documentary Completion.

Once chess was over this morning, I spent pretty much every single minute of my day working on my documentary! I've been working so hard on this, but it was all worth it. I've made the greatest five minute movie ever, in history!

I've been adding and editing all day long to get my documentary done and finally I've got the five minutes of footage (genius)! I've mixed my good ideas with some hard work and determination, I've put it all in the oven and produced one documentary! I also learnt that there is a university named after Justus Liebig, (the man who invented Marmite). Also did you know that Justus Liebig is known as the father of the fertiliser industry. Today we also had some guests from the ILT and the ILT Foundation come in to have a look at what we do here at Enrich@ILT.

A day @ circus Enrich

Where to put this one, where to put that one? "I know were that goes. These where some of the things I said during the patterns workshop today.  Today, we had to order important events from 2000 - 2006.  We were looking at similarities and differences in this timeframe, as well as any patterns we could see.

To start the day I had a game of chess against Madison and won holding onto 5th place on the leaderboard. Once chess was done it was time for infographics with Katie. Infographics, well the name really says it all. At infographics I learnt about a programme called Prezi which lets me make a presentation about whatever I want. It's sort of like Keynote, but more interactive. After that we had Miro's sister Lauren, come in from Circus Aoteroa to talk about what she does in the circus. Once Miro's sister had left we moved into passion time and I've almost finished my movie. All I have to do is add some voice overs and check everything and I will be done!!!!

Patterns in time

"Stalemate!" Was how I started  the second week of the term. A 20 minute game of chess against Alex woke me up. After taking an early lead all I could get Alex down to was a stalemate. Once chess time had depleted it was time for some teacher lead workshops. I was went for Miss Nicola's survey workshop where we did a multiple intelligents test to find out what we are most gifted at. Once that was finished it was time for Passion time. During this space of time I got my voice overs completed and started organising an expert for next week. Once all this time was gone we started some patterns workshops. The opitions were time, migration and writing patterns. I choose Time with Katie. We all tried to guess how long a minute is, without a clock to help us.  I guessed 1.06, which was pretty close.  We discussed some of the ancient methods of timekeeping - candle clocks, hour glasses, and water clocks.  We made lists of all the things we could think of that relate to patterns of time - day and night, seasons, tides, calendars.  Your whole life revolves around time.  Patterns in time repeat over and over.  Next week we are going to design our own machine to measure time.

The end of the term.

Today at Enrich I learnt the names of the different type of clouds and how to recognize them when I see them. To start my day I had a game of chess and my challenger Miro. The game had started. The game went on and on. But in the end it came down to points and then I had won!!! After chess time had disintegrated we moved into teacher lead workshops. This time I was on cloud patterns. In this time I learnt the names of clouds and how to recognize them and we also made a cloud  finder to also help us recognize clouds
The  some of the names of the different cloud types are cirrus, stratocumulus, cumulonimbus, stratus, cumulus and altocumulus. Next on the agenda was passion time. During this time I got my draft email for Warren Mckenzie and now I'm doing a "what happened?" to Sanitarium. And now I'm off to finish my day with student led workshops. Have a happy holidays!

Chess victory.

"Stalemate." I had tied against Claudia in my first game of chess. "Oh well better luck next time I told myself."  Then, what a great game! Victory was mine! I had just beaten Nathan in a game of chess and now I'm third on the chess leader board. Oh and by the way did you know it's Gifted Awareness Week? First think this morning, it was time to work on my patterns keynote. I added a few more slides, the music and the timing and now I'm heading down the the path of completion. Now the time had come for passion time so I sprang into action. In the given time, I edited the interviews from last week and put them into my i-Movie. I also got some more facts about marmite. Also I edited some of the timing in some of my clips because you couldn't read them. And then I completed the music for my i-Movie it's so cool!

Learning on the Ipad

"Checkmate." at last I told  myself victory was mine after a gruelling match of chess. 

"Good game Jacob."

 "You too Wilson"

After chess we started some new workshops. They are affective domain, IPads and keynote. Each week we do a new workshop. I started with IPads we learnt how to use some new apps that are on the iPad some of those apps are Extreme FX, book creator, pic colage and phyciss.

During this time we also got to have a play around with some of the new apps. We drew some pictures with a new art app, we made environmental music the sounds had been filmed with like a car horn, kicking a tire, slamming a door and that sort of stuff.

We also had a go at a psychics app where we had to build something like a tree house and it had to hold some thing heavy and you would pass or fail and another thing you have a budget you have to stick to.

At passion time I took some more interviews but this time I did them on the iPad and that was much easier than using the camera.

And thats been whats happening at enrich today.

My image that I drew on the Ipad

Checkmate.

"Check." I said to Blake. Blake moved Then I took his final piece and then "Stalemate." "Good game Blake." "You too Wilson." And then I had a game of chess with Jayden. It was a really intense first couple of seconds and then we got down to the final moves "Checkmate Jayden, Good game." "You too." That's how the start of my morning played out. After Chess it was time for student-led workshops. Again, I went with Max and this time we learnt how to add gravity when a player jumps. But sadly we only got half way through. We also learnt how to make the characters change direction when they hit the side. Oh well more for next week. As the day rolled on we moved into passion time. I got three more interviews and some of the music done done. The people I interviewed today were Blake, Jayden and Madison. And next I'm going to do teacher-led workshops. I'm doing the Enrich Newspaper with Nicola.