August 26, 2015
The last Teach-Me Tuesday's
Last week marked our last Teach-Me Tuesday session for 2015! We are thinking what we could do next and some students want to teach other students during learning times so next week some students will be running maths workshops, reading workshops and even spelling workshops! Our last TMT's saw Amy teaching us how to write words in Mandarin, Helen taught us how to play dodgeball and Zack and Jayden taught us how to make two epic paper planes!
August 25, 2015
Game Design - The Next Phase
Today we are using classroom equipment to design physical games. We have to design a game using the design process as well as thinking about the goal, core mechanics, rules, space, components, and challenge. Lots of good discussions going on!
August 21, 2015
Doodle for Google
Room 17 have been working hard on their Doodle for Google entries. This is a competition to design a new Google logo. The theme this year was ...'if I could go back in time.' Everyone did an amazing job but we could only send away a few for the competition. Here are our R17 winners! Can you tell where in time they'd go back to?
August 18, 2015
Game Design
Today we started exploring how to design a game. Last week we completed an 'Hour of Code' through code.org to understand how games are coded. Today we have been looking at how games are designed and we modified an existing game to see if we could improve it.
Modification Feedback (Our playtest)
- It worked for me and Eva (Grace)
- We played more than one game on the bigger grid (Sasha)
- Didn't work very well for us (Leo)
- It's kind of a waste of time drawing such a big grid (Zachary)
- Do you have to fill up the whole grid or should the amount we get in a row have to be bigger? (Bella)
- You can't go diagonally if you had to get ten in a row (Shyam)
- We changed it to ten in a row (Cohen)
- 10x10 is too many (Yuna)
Modification Feedback (Our playtest)
- It worked for me and Eva (Grace)
- We played more than one game on the bigger grid (Sasha)
- Didn't work very well for us (Leo)
- It's kind of a waste of time drawing such a big grid (Zachary)
- Do you have to fill up the whole grid or should the amount we get in a row have to be bigger? (Bella)
- You can't go diagonally if you had to get ten in a row (Shyam)
- We changed it to ten in a row (Cohen)
- 10x10 is too many (Yuna)
August 14, 2015
August 10, 2015
August 4, 2015
Teach Me Tuesday - Week 1-3
We've had some fabulous Teach Me Tuesdays since the start of Term 3. Angelina and Helen taught us how to say some basic words in Mandarin. Allen and Leo used their resilience to overcome some initial problems and taught us how to change our character skins on Minecraft. We perfected our tap dancing skills under Yuna's tuition and then found out some interesting facts about how bees make honey, thanks to Eva. We even got to taste some of her Opa's honey!
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