Life Underwater in PNG

Picture Trail

We have not used Picture Trail for sometime now, so perhaps we need to re-visit it and see the advantages it can offer. As well as making an animated slideshow of our photos, you can also add speech bubbles to individual pictures. Here is an example using some of the photos taken while in the Solomon Islands last year.

France

At school we have each chosen a country to study.
The country I have chosen is France. Here is a short introduction from my Voki.

Visiting Samoa

During the first week of the school holidays we decided to go to Samoa. We had been having so much cold, wet, windy weather here in Auckland that the lure of fine sunny days relaxing on the beach, or beside a pool sounded too inviting to resist. Samoa is a very lovely place - I feel I would have no trouble living there for quite some time. The villages are neat, tidy, clean and have a lot of pretty coloured plants along the roadside.
When we arrived in Samoa, we were met by a van from our hotel, and took 45 minutes to drive back to Apia where our hotel was located. After a few days of relaxation we were ready to explore both Islands that make up Samoa. We took a day trip right around the island of Upolo, then took the boat over to Savaii and stayed in a beach Fale for 3 days.

We had a meal with this lovely friendly family in their home. They cooked local food and it was yummy! Here are a couple of photos of our time in the lovely friendly islands of Samoa.

Recording with Voki

This term we are going to do our research, write up a summary, then record it as a Voki voice so we can hear the expression you have put into your summary.

• Go to Voki.com


• Create your voki character to suit your project


• Record your commentary using Audacity


• Save it as a wave file


• Import it into your voki character


• Copy the code


• Finally paste it into your blog.

Enjoy!!

Proscope

We have a Proscope in our school and last week we used it to have a closer look at different objects and textures around our classroom. It is very interesting to see that when our eyes see the colour black, the Proscope sees that black is made up of mainly red. We found some interesting textures on different surfaces too. We have made these into a tesselation to share them with you. This is the one Nora created.

Pivot

We have been using Pivot to create animations. As our topic this term is "change" we looked back to see what changes had occurred in our lives since we were born. To create a pivot animation, you first need to draw a background using paint, save it as a jpeg and load it into pivot. Next you add movements a frame at a time. When completed, save as a pivot file - just in-case you decide to make changes later. Finally you save it once again as a gif file so it will animate. To add this to your Blog, click on the picture icon, browse to find the gif file, upload it, and you have an animation to share with your friends and family.