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.

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.