Our Rube Goldberg Machine

 It felt really easy to work with my teammates. Johnny brought all the equipment that we needed. Jack hasn't been here often because he is too busy with the drama production. Me and Johnny finished two whole rube goldberg machines before the other teams had completed half of their machine.

The engineering design process is really helpful. Without it, we wouldn't have a plan or a design. We wouldn't even know what equipment to bring. The evaluations were really easy because my group worked so well together.

The part that made us feel successful was how everyone finished a week or even more than a week after us. Me, Johnny and Jack did so well and I am learning so much energy transformations and transfers. Without this class, I would know almost nothing about energy.

My favourite part has been learning about how the kinetic energy types spell SHREK.

My catapult

 Our poster

Our project for the next few weeks was to make a couple of catapults and test them. Once we tested them, we discussed and came up with ideas for a better catapult. Once we had built and tested our catapult, we had to try to improve it.

The average for our redesign was 324cm

How I can save water

I can' save water by cutting down on shopping and buying cat food.

I use 1,682 gallons of water a day.

You can try it yourself at https://www.watercalculator.org/wfc2/q/household/

My Mangapapa School Trailer

 We were learning to make an advertisement about Mangapapa School using wevideo. We were only allowed to use pictures.It was fun creating my video because I know twice as many computer tricks now, than at the beginning of the year. This is only my second time using WeVideo so don't blame me for being bad. If you want to try WeVideo, click here.

I found it easier to put my video together because Mr Fourie made the instructions really clear. It was also easy to make our video because I have picked up a few tricks across the year. 

I found it challenging to pick the parts of Mangapapa School because it is a really good school with a lot of exciting. It was also quite difficult to add in the titles because I have never added titles before. Yet another thing that was hard to do was to voiceover.

I chose to advertise many things. They are the obstacle course, bike track, pool and the sports field. The best way to inform people is by video because it is an entertaining way to gather thoughts and information.

I really enjoyed making the whole video because it is really fun creating videos. It was fun to brainstorm all of the ideas and realised how fun our school really is. The best part about making the video was to get help from my friends and spend a school day making a video.

Next time I need to take my time when making videos. I need to slow down and add more detail. Overall, the best part was choosing the parts of Mangapapa School that I wanted to take pictures of. 

My planning is up the top and my video is at the bottom.

Real Or Fake

Have you ever heard of photoshop?

Today we went on google drawings to make an unusual picture. It was fun because we were learning a new tool.

It was really easy to use Unsplash and Remove B.G  which is what helped us to create our creepy creatures. My advice is that when you are looking for images, make sure they are real not fake.

I found it easy to put all of the pictures and fit them together. I found it hard to chose what I was actually going to make.

Mangapapa School Gala Poster

We were learning to use piktochart to create posters. Piktochart is a fun website that is used to make posters, click here to get started.  It was hard to get used to a new tool but I eventually got the hang of it.Thank you to my friend Zac for showing me how to use it.

 I really enjoyed creating the poster because it is a new tool and I was faced with the challenge of figuring it out.

Next time I would need to add more writing and have less pictures. I would also have to make it tidier and take my time. I hope to see you guys at the gala!

Disappearing Trick

My video shows magic because I disappear my friend without cutting the video. It is a special trick that I am not willing to show you guys at the moment. I really like using Wevideo because it teaches me a lot!

The video skills that I am learning at the moment is to cut my footage. We had to make our video around 30 seconds and it had to involve magic. Special shout out to my friend Cameron for being in my video. It wouldn't be magic without him.

When you guys are doing Wevideo, make sure you save your footage so you get to keep your video. Mr Fourie told us about some people who lose all of their videos because of this. Wevideo is complicated at first, but when you get used to it, it's a piece of cake.

My next steps for my video is to make my video longer and to use more complicated steps to make a more successful video. I need to put in the right music for the video or situation. It took me about 3 hours to make my video[for some reason]. My video started off simple, but with Cameron's help, it made my recording a lot easier.

Can you please tell me if you like it or not. If you find something wrong, please leave a comment so I can fix it ASAP. I just think that the video needs something to make it more interesting. Please leave a comment to say if I can make it better!!