Student teachers

To start our day we did chess. In my first game I played Jacob and bet him. In my second game I played Sophia and won by points so I'm now eighth on the leader board. Once that was done we did student lead workshops and I went to Max's workshop which was all about Scratch. At the workshop we learnt how to make our own game by learning how to make the  characters move by controls. Also we learnt how to give the characters life and how to make them lose life and to make them lose life we learnt how to make the characters attack. Once we had finished our game we moved into passion time. Today for passion time I did some interviews and I got four done. I interviewed Max, Alex, Jacob and Miro. I think that one day that these guys will be movie stars. I'm now editing the footage and putting them into my i-Movie.

My visit to Cue TV

To start today I went for a visit to Cue TV and I went and saw Ashley McKenzie for an hour. We talked about how to line up the camera when filming how to edit my clips and how to play with the light when taking pictures and videos. He also showed me one of his own documentaries. He taught me how to do a thing called a Covershot. A Covershot when you have a clip and you put a picture of something when someone says something like "um" to cover it up. He told me that the hardest part about the editing process was knowing what to put in. Ashley also told me that I needed a bottom line and we decided  that my bottom line was Life is not worth living without Marmite. I also got a special  tour of  Cue TV in SIT arcade. When I got back from my visit I immediately started editing my Imovie because some of the things Ashley told me.

The new term

Back at Enrich already! Man the holidays went fast. To start our first day back we had a game of chess and I challenged Madison and won, and now I'm just outside the top ten on the chess leader board. 

After that we had a talk about some of the models of giftedness. From that we learnt ability alone will not produce outstanding accomplishments. We also talked about Gagnes model of giftedness and found out that he and Tannebaum both think chance is a huge part of giftedness.

Next for the day was passion time and I got my email from cue TV. I'm going for a visit next Monday That will be awesome!!!! 

I also got a couple of people to come and give their vote while I recorded them on if they like marmite or not, sadly most people said no but one

person said yes.

Last day of Term 1

Man what a busy term!!! The time has come once again for a  two week holiday YAH!!! But lets get back to today. Once again we started off with passion time And I sent an email to Cue Tv to ask if after the holidays I can come in for a visit to see how they do their filming and how they edit their films and  now I'm waiting for a reply. I also got some more facts and progress for my documentary and I have a minute 15 seconds of film done and after the holidays I'm going to start filming interviews and stuff everything is going great!!! After morning tea we edited some of our pictures from our patterns field trip on iphoto and then we put them into a keynote. In my keynote everything was either beauty, order, strength or survivability and now after this I'm going to do my technology challenge. See ya, have a good holiday and drive safely.

My life today

"Passion time, Yes!!!" I told myself this is great. I get until morning tea time to work on my documentary. For the next hour I was making plans and adding pictures and words and now I have just over a minute of documentary. After morning tea we had to fill out this Reflection sheet and we had to write a topic for each of the corner stone and it was not easy and it took the rest of the time until lunch time.
This is my reflection sheet.

We watched a video about a boy called Caine and he made his own arcade out of cardboard in his dad's workshop. And it all started with a small plastic basketball hoop he had won at an arcade. And then he made heaps more games and set them up in his dads workshop. then one day a guy came into  Caine’s dads shop to buy a new handle for his Mazda and he played Caines Arcade. Then he made a page on facebook about Caine’s Arcade because he was Caine’s first customer and he organised a flash mob for Caines arcade and when the day came caine had the shock of his life when hundreds of people came to play caines arcade.  Caine is realy gifted and he had lots of self motivation. Canie had lots of inspiration and he gave me a lot of information and I learn’t that if I stick with something I can achieve great things. I have learn’t lots of things from caine like if I purse my personal best I will achive lots of things.  We also did this task called what is intelligence where we had to say if we thought it was intelligent or not. And I learnt from this that everyone is intelligent in some way. 

Mental Edge...  Most days in the morning we have a game of chess and this involves quick thinking, sacrifice, logic, strategy and to learn from your mistakes. It also requires lots of concentration because if you accidentally touch a piece that you don’t mean to, this could make your whole plan fall apart.      We do Wilson games each morning. These games require a lot of concentration, teamwork, friendship, and pursuing your personal best and sometimes that can be really hard. You also have to be really brave to participate to progress because if you are not brave you will never get anywhere. 

Concept Curriculum... We went on a field trip to the park and around the town to find patterns and help us realise that patterns are a universal concept. While we were out on this field trip we had a camera and a clipboard with a sheet and we with a buddy had to write down what patterns we could see and take photos of them. We noticed patterns that we walk past everyday with out noticing them. I learnt that patterns are a universal concept.

 Talent Development/Passion Time... during passion time we get to do whatever our passion is and we get to explore our passions in depth and learn new things about ourselves. I find this time is really great because I get time to do things that I don’t get to do at school or have time for at home. and this is all about self motivation and sticking to the task because if you do that you achieve great things. 

After lunch we did two rotations To start I was with Darryn and we did this thing about Gagne's model of giftedness and then we did this newspaper thing where we had a story starter and we had to type a story from that in 15 minutes and send it to Miss Nicola.I hope you enjoyed reading about what happened in Wilson's life today.

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As we left Enrich I wondered what pictures I might find of patterns. And as soon as we had stepped out of the building I saw Zillions of patterns "Man." I told myself this is going to be a long day.  First stop the libary. As I was walking down the road to the library we were stopping nearly every five steps because there where so many patterns. When we got to the library the amount of patterns was amazing. I had never realised that there where so many patterns. As we walked around I was snapping all the patterns I could see. This was awesome. Then just down the road was our next stop Wachner Place. One of the parents said "Hey look at" She was looking at something through her sun glasses that no-one else could see. I had a look and I though it was pretty cool so I put the camera up to her sun glasses and took a photo. Next stop Countdown. When we finally got to Countdown we had to put our cameras away because we weren't allowed to take photos inside the store. When that was done Max and I had taken at lest a hundred photos! Next stop, Enrich for a snack and to get our lunch boxes so that we could got to Queens Park for lunch. It was so cool there. We went to the Japanese garden, the cactus garden and the museum and now back here. What a day!

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"Yes!" I told myself. Finally I thought of my topic for my documentary......  THE MARMITE DROUGHT!!! Great I can get started. So I began the documentary on THE MARMITE DROUGHT!!!!!! Drag, drop and type was my pattern and boy that pattern was effective.  I now have 19 seconds of movie and most of my storyboard done. Now what to do next? "Check!" 

"Not now." Oh no Jayden has killed my bishop I must avenge it. Yes I have his Queen. "Checkmate Jayden. Good game." "You too Wilson." Yes I had bet Jayden at chess and moved 4 spots against my arch rival Max.

"Blue, Red, Green,Yellow, Purple and Magenta, Yes I had earnt my colour and that was cerise! The aim of this game is first you have 4-5 people standing up the front, and they have a colour on their back, (it is just a sticky note with a colour written on it). The people up the front stand in a line, and say their colour, and then everyone else has to close their eyes and the people up the front with the colours on their back swap places.  The audience then has a turn at guessing the order of the colours.  If they guess correctly, they get a colour, and they get added to the list of colours to remember! Can't wait for next week to come.