Term 3 Reflection

Active Worlds, It was fun interacting with the others but it didn't really feel like I did much learning.

Creativity, lamp design was the thing I think I did the best It looked pretty good at the end.

I started doing science booklets which are quite interesting.

Running the call of the wild live chat discussion was quite a fun challenge.

My Glog about rain forest deforestation turned out quite well.

I was a bit lazy about putting work on online though :c

enterprise

Business ideas
I would like to use my photography to base the business around.
I could try to sell greeting cards or maybe calendars but the problem is the printing as we don't have a working printer and then there's how to sell them? We could go door to door, try and get a shop in town to sell them or maybe sell them on trademe or something but for all of those you need to print copies. We will have to pay to have them printed and that might cost quite a bit.

I could also...use photoshop to make fantasy images, or fractal images for the card designs.

I could do some research like asking the photographer in town that makes his own cards (Stewart Nimmo) or ask Vidron greeting cards if they would use my photos for their cards or the photographer; Rob Suisted who's website is www.naturespic.com

Bird Watching

I've seen a lot of birds around at the moment and I've got a couple of pretty good photos to match so ill put on some of the good ones for you to see

today there were two Tuis calling to each other (I only saw one) and a Bellbird sadly I couldn't photograph them as they were behind branches and they were just silhouettes

yesterday I got some photos of a song thrush


there's lots of fantails around and they seem to like hanging around our damson tree they are good to photograph because you can get quite close but they do move very fast.

there was a couple of sparrows around a day or two ago which were quite funny


and lots of wax eyes which hang around the acacia trees which is just starting to flower so hopefully I'll get some photos soon

there's always blackbirds


down at the beach there's been paradise ducks


and a shag :) which sat up on the bridge with big trucks driving past but when we got close under the bridge it flew away :P

Term One Reflection

I am used to Blackboard now so I don't have any difficulty navigating around. but I did miss some of the tasks this term because I didn't find some work until nearly the end. Pdf files are annoying because you cant work in them. I am looking forward to the new version of blackboard we tested because it has good features like live chat which will be like virtual classroom, the work list is better than the learning tab, it seems more organised and easier to find the work. It also tells when there are comments and each thread is separate.

I enjoyed making the mechanism with a picture of a dragon even though I didn't finish it. figuring out the right mechanism and getting it to work was a challenge. When I made my crane I learnt by trial and error. I feel annoyed when something I do doesn't work so it is good to learn that.

here are some quotes about mistakes

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.

The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything.

electro-magnet crane

I made a cool electromagnet using insulated copper wire wrapped around a nail.
it was able to pick up paperclips!!!!! :P

Here is video of the crane I made using paper, cardboard, string and tape
The main problem I had was the boom bending, I had to stabilize it by shortening it and folding it
I used a bowline knot to make a lasso for the bottle I could operate from behind the crane.
It raised the bottle 81 cm.

my new online gallery :D

http://manigallery.myphotoalbum.com

Library Competition

In the holidays there was a competition at the library in town to read almost every day and I won one of the major prizes, I got 10 free passes to the pool in town and 3 each for the hydro slide for me and my family I also got a certificate and chocolate bar (though everyone got something like that).

First Post :O

Creating the blog was no problem. I'll use it to reflect on my work but also I will use it to note interesting stuff and maybe display my photos etc.