Our Blogging Goals T2

In this presentation it shows what kind of things we publish to our blogs each week, and our goals for T2.   

Flanders fields poem

In Flanders fields the poppies grow

  Between the crosses, row on row.

That mark our place; and in the sky

The Larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard among the guns below.

We are the dead.  Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved, and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders Fields

Take our quarrel with the foe

To you from failing hands we throw,

The torch be yours to hold up high.

If ye break faith with us who die,

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow,

In Flanders Fields

Instructions on how to make a presentation using green screen...

Step 1- Write your script.

Step 2- Practice your lines with your buddie.

Step 3- Find a green screen and set your position where you're going to sit and talk about your subject.

Step 4- Set up your camera and make sure you have a person to film you.

(tip)- Make you film just the screen not the outside of it.

Step 5- Practice your lines while filming.  Then you can watch the film and just see what you have to fix up.  Afterwards after fixing your mistakes then film again then hope it is better, and also remember to look at the CAMERA!

( tip)- Get the person who is videoing to hold your lines on top of the video camera so that you are looking at it at all times.

Step 6- Film your best film you are going to use for your movie.

Step 7- Connect your camera to your computer or laptop then click on to imovie.

Step 8- On the camera there should be a button on the left with a symbol on it that might look like to plug something in, push that button, it should come up on the camera with three selections touch the middle one.  And your movie should pop up on imovie after you click import movie.  

Step 9-  On google images find 6 photo’s to do with your topic, press ctrl and right click on each picture rename them put them and save them onto desktop.

Step 10- Select a picture and drag and drop it into the space on the left, highlight it so that the outline is yellow, press Ctrl C then Ctrl V until there are about 10 pics appearing.  Do the same thing with the other 5 photo’s. The length of your movie should be how many photos you should have.

Step 11- Your movie should be at the bottom of the page, highlight your movie to as far as it will go, drag it and place it on top of the first pic, if there is any more movie left highlight that part too and drag and drop it onto another photo.

(Make sure)-  Click to preferences and make sure you have ticked the box that says advanced settings.            

Step 12- Share your movie and make sure it’s large, click okay and it will take upto 5 minutes to load afterwards you can play your movie and joyfully watch the incredible work that you have created.

Leila and I had made a movie on world war 1 using these instructions we had written afterwards.

World War 1 information report

World War 1

Did you know that World War 1 was the very first war to be fought around many different places  around the world? War is legalised violence.  It is the only time you would be able to kill somebody and not go to jail. War happens when countries do not agree with each other or the same country has two leaders. It always has huge consequences and many innocent people die. World War 1 was also known as the Great War and was the first war to be called a total war.

The conflict began in 1914 after the Archduke of Austria , Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated by a Serbian student. The people of Austria-Hungary were angry and fought back by declaring war on Serbia. Most of the European countries had formed alliances and it only took one week before all of Europe was at war.

The smaller countries fighting for the Central Powers signed the armistice and agreed to follow the rules given by Allied forces in return for peace in their countries. They had to follow these rules as the Allied Forces took away all of their weapons so that they could not support anyone or fight back.  At the Paris Peace conference in January 1919 all the leaders from the countries who were in the war came together and formed the League of Nations. Their job was to stop any problems that might lead to war again.  65 million soldiers fought in this war, 8.5 million people died and over 21 million were wounded.  The main weapon used by British soldiers in the trenches was the bolt-action rifle.  Machine guns needed 4-6 men to fire them and had to be on a flat platform. They had the fire power of 100 guns.  Large field guns had a long range and could deliver horrible blows to the enemy but needed up to twelve men to work them. They fired shells which exploded on impact.  Tanks, planes and torpedoes were also used as weapons throughout WW1.

At the Paris Peace conference in January 1919 all the leaders from the countries who were in the war came together and formed the League of Nations. Their job was to stop any problems that might lead to war again.  All the countries in WW1 then signed the Treaty of  Versailles, which is the peace treaty. The treaty was signed between leaders of Germany and leaders of the allied countries. The German leaders did not have enough power and they disagreed with everything because they felt that the rules were too strict so there were some changes that were made that everyone agreed with. On June 28, 1919 the Treaty had been signed, and from then on peace was officially announced and everyone started to feel safe again.

After the conflict  many people were left without loved ones, property and jobs. This meant people got hunger and they couldn’t buy food as they had no money. For that reason there was a lot of sickness around in lots of countries in Europe.

Are you aware that this is the war that showed how brave the New Zealand troops were. They fought alongside the Australians in the Gallipoli campaign. The spirit they showed earned them the ANZAC name.

ANZAC day Thinker's Keys

This presentation shows activity's that I have completed on ANZAC day it will show what I think and how I worked these out. 

ANZAC day brochure

In this brochure it show's some facts about ANZAC day. In this it also shows how you can show respect on the day when men faught for our country.  The top one is the outside version and the bottom one is the inside version.  ANZAC stands for Australian New Zealand Army Crops.    

Maths screenshot

For this activity I used my basic facts knowledge to solve these equations, and I won the race, I was the won in the yellow t-shirt.  Go onto- http://www.studyladder.co.nz/student/overview and have lots of fun with solving mind challenging activities!