Planning Log

Planning Log

Keep a record of both what you intend to do and what you did over the course of the next 3 weeks as we work through the Technology Process.

	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7
What I plan to do	Brainstormed issues	Research questions Ideas more signs	Complete the signs
Materials I will need	Paper, pen, ideas	Google Docs Questions	Google Docs Questions
People/Sources I need to consult for more information.	peers, friends, yourself, teacher	Peers, friends, Year 7 7 & 8 kids	My partners
What did you find difficult and why?	To come up with 1 problem to focus on	To get the form done and sent	To get our design project thing done
What I will do next as a result of any difficulties.	Get more ideas for a good sign	Analyze the data, check the answers	Manage the time more better

STAKEHOLDERS

The Stakeholders are the people who have an effect on the production of your product

The Primary Stakeholder is your client ie. the person or community of people that your sign is going to be created for. eg. ….

Wider Community Stakeholders:	Key Stakeholders:	Primary Stakeholder:
Parents Visitors Care-givers Community	Students Year 7 & 8 students Teachers	Me year 7 & 8 students

ATTRIBUTES:
These describe the physical (what it is like) and functional (what it will do) characteristics of a product. These characteristics are key or essential for the successful function of a product and should be re- evaluated at each stage of the design process.

With your sign in mind, complete the following attributes table:

Attribute	Method of Measurement	Specification
eg. Eye catching	sign will appeal (be noticed) by stakeholders	Sign must be clear, stand out and be creative
Size	Pretty big	Sign must be big enough for everyone to see
Colour	A bright/appealing colour	Green/White/Black/readable
Create awareness (e.g. clear message)	Stop littering	People should stop littering so our school can be clean
Durable/ Weather resistant	Laminate it	Laminate it so it’ll be waterproof
Ideal location (in the right area)	Somewhere readable	Probably in the street up on the wall

Designing A Sign

Names of people in my group:
Aneisha
Helen
Sela

Your task is to design a sign that will clearly assist in eliminating a problem within our school.

- Make sure you are clear what the task is.
- Can you identify the key words in this task (highlight them and discuss it with a buddy)

Thinking about signs and signage (Make a list of all the signs you have seen ….. and the purpose of the sign )

Brainstorm some Ideas/ problems that we have around our school environment.

*Littering
*Gum
*Running
*Drama’s
*Rumours
*Respect
*Running
*Untidy shoes

ISSUE CHOICE AND JUSTIFICATION

You need to think and expand on your answers, one sentence is not sufficient.

What is your issue in our school? I think that a big problem we have around the school is littering.Our school is sometimes very messy and has rubbish littered on the fields and courts and Mr Malloy has to pick it up.

Who does it affect? Mr Malloy, students, teachers
Why is it happening in our school? Because people walk and eat, people are careless
When does it happen? Before/after school, lunch time, morning tea
Where is it happening? The Street, Around the whole school, Classrooms,
What needs to happen to prevent this issue? More awareness talks, Signs, punish people who litter, monitors, more bins

Mr Burt's Korero

In the street our name for our new building, we had a team assembly. Our principal Mr Burt came and had a talk with us. First thing we talked about was gum is dumb. Chewing gum and then placing them under tables, on the ground, places where you sit and, it’s disgusting when you reach into somewhere and you feel something sticky and you find out it’s gum. A place with gum everywhere doesn’t look very nice and makes our school look dirty.

One of another things he was talking about was us being rich, we may not be rich but we. Mr Burt went overseas and some schools only had one teacher that works for 4 days and then another for another 4 days and it continues. Some schools can’t afford to pay teachers, school trips, camps, they don’t have music teachers, sports coordinators like our school. That’s why we’re fortunate to have the street, our music teacher, sport coordinator, all our teachers and extra things we’ve got but others don’t have.

It’s really sad because as he was talking he said that, we’re so fortunate. I think we are because, when you you think about it we are rich because we have houses, beds, clothes, uniforms and a abundance of opportunity’s that we don’t realize that others don’t have. He also talked to us about how ⅔ of the children around the world live in poverty and go to sleep hungry.

When a opportunity comes my way I should be happy and make the most of it.

Term 2 Highlights

Oh there’s just so many highlights for me this term. One of my highlights for this term was the soccer tournament we had. It was held at Crossfield Glendowie, riding in the car down to the field. We gazed outside as we stepped foot on the ground, we saw many teams there already practising. We played against Ellerslie, Church Hill Park, Panmure district. Overall we came second in our pool and we had a enjoyable time.

One of my other highlights were I AM MAKING MOVIES 2 competion. Before we entered our movie it was so much pressure getting our movies done in time. All the hard work we did and all the times our teacher screamed at us to get it done finally payed off. Arriving there we all sat down together, waiting was so nerve racking.

But then hearing that we won best creative storytelling was a astonishing feeling. But then we took it out, we won the award for Supreme winner it was a even more better feeling. Our prize was a still camera, video camera and a few USB’s donated from Sony.

My last favourite highlight for term 2 was Taoga time. We’ve been learning about Japanese with Mrs Nua and it has been great experience. Last Friday Mrs Nua’s sister who has been at Japan for one year came in our class and taught us alot about Japanese. We learnt how to spell our name in Japanese, the body parts I know funny, how to use chop sticks and so many more more fun things about Japanese.

One thing that I really enjoyed about Taoga time was when we tried to use chopsticks to pick up gummy bears, we had to see how much gummy bears we could pick up and drop in our cups. Then we got to eat them, it was yummy! So for the past days of term 2 it has passed by real fast, and I can’t wait for Term 3 that’s coming up.

Tamaki Tech

To experience Technology, we stroll down to Tamaki College for Tech. This happens every Monday’s, we meet up in the street before 8:30 and then we leave altogether. We’ve got 5 groups including the year 7’s that go to Tech, there’s various different types technology we do. We have Cooking, graphics, wood works,science and Electronics. I’m currently in electronics.

In the weeks we’ve been there we created a circuit. This simple circuit is a alarm sensor. We had a cardboard which when you stepped on it, it would trigger the alarm and make a beep sound. When we tried this experiment there were heaps of alarms going on at the same time and the piercing sound of the circuit.

In our group today we created a poster to show the danger’s of electricity. For example like electric fences, oh I remember never touch a soldering iron when it’s heating up, I can tell you it’s really painful. I used really colourful colours and didn’t finish on time. I really enjoyed electronics and learned heaps about technology.

Can’t wait for Science.

Information about Japan

Mushi mushi! That’s how you say hi in Japanese. In Taoga time we’ve swapped groups. My class is learning about Japanese and practising our Mihi’s. We were searching the web and had to find out some information like what is the population in japan. There’s approximately 127,960,00 people in Japan. The largest islands or the main islands is Honshu, hokkaido kyushu shikoku.

I know this one, another info we had to find out was the capital city of Japan, also known as the Land of the rising sun. It’s Tokyo, Tokyo is also the largest city. There’s about 46 of the worlds greatest landmarks. One of the prominent landmarks is the Tori gate, it stands in the sea 500 ft, there’s also Mount fuji, Nara Todaishii and more landmarks.

Some interesting facts about Japan is that on respect for the aged day, tabacco companies will hand out free cigarettes to the elderly outside of train stations and department stores. Did you know that some Japanese love corn, sesame seeds and mayonaise in their pizza. Japanese people take hot baths every night, some do not have showers installed in their bathrooms. When you go to a funeral or a wedding you must take a gift of money.

So I can’t wait to make Sushi!

Argument

Technology has changed over time and developed over the years. This argument is to show that technology has definitely made a huge difference in our lives. The argument is why/ why not cellphones have transformed and made a change in our lives.

Back then they hardly had any technology and I reckon life was harder, for example phones weren’t portable, it was a struggle because you couldn't email, chat, keep in contact, communicate faster and more ways that makes it hard without technology.

But that’s why they’ve invented bigger, better, faster, and stronger technology. For example cellphones, iphones, ipad’s, laptops, there’s just so many new inventions still coming out. These technology are very popular around the world and everyone always try and be the first to get the latest ones.

My opinion and what I think of technology making a improvement in our lives is, yes and no. I am not certain as to why I decided to choose this option because yes technology has transformed our lives and has upgraded over the years. The reason why it’s easier for us to know where we are by an instant phone call, chatting with our friends, keeping in touch with our mates if they’re in different parts of the city or world, skyping or video chatting to see family and friends again, taking images to show other people what we’ve been up to, writing on the laptop, computer or whatever fancy technology we use. So that we are able to share with the world how we learn and improve in our learning, also what we do in our daily lives. There’s just a load of ideas as to why technology is such a popular device.

Like I said, I also choose no, the reason why is because for some people phones are just a pain and is just so irritating. I mean there’s a lot of possibility that your phone can have viruses, not work, load slow, sometimes when you activate a site, inappropriate pop up sites appear out of no where, it can also not big enough for your hands to text on or if touch screen type on. It’s a hassle and a big responsibility depending how much it costs and price. Also what you store inside your Sim card can be very personal but now could be erased. Sometimes when you actually know it’s out of your sight for good, maybe someone has found it and decide to keep it and store in their things. Some people if they are that wicked they can do far more worse things your things, for example find out things about you, blackmail you, pretend to be you and do something you didn’t do.

I don’t think that it has been proved whether or not technology has really improved our lives.