Manufacturing Media - adverts

 In Manaiakalani, our class has been looking at the power of media.  How they have two messages.  To get us to DO something, or to get us to BUY something.  Here are a few of our awesome adverts created in the last two weeks.  Do they make you want to do it/ buy it?

What Good Writers Do!

 At the end of last term, ATN had to put together a teaching slide about all the things they had learnt in writing.  It had to give an example and use a range of media to present their learnings.  They have blown me away with what they learnt.  I wish I could post all 24  but I will add just my top 5.  P.S.  it has been really hard to narrow it down.  I hope you learn something from these very cool slides.  Leave us a comment about your favourite tool or new learning.  Enjoy.

Our Classroom Political parties

 Over the next three weeks we are learning about the New Zealand Political system and government.  In the process, we are creating our own political parties.  This involves coming up with our key classroom values and 3 laws they think will make better classroom.  We will be holding elections at the end of week 4.

Our next step is to have a leaders debate.

For now here are the advertisements promoting each of the parties in our classroom elections.

Novel Study Predictions (using padlet)

Character Description - Nevaeh Lawton

For writing this week, we had to describe a character. Most people made up their characters. We had to list all the thing about our character using our 5 senses. The character I made was an avocado called Avo Man. 

  LI:
To add detail about a character. 
The Power sentence. 
Surface features - Contractions / Their / They’re / There

Avo man was walking the street, he was getting lots of stares. This is probably because he’s way better looking than everyone else. His shiny green and black skin and his soft avocado insides, this guy was slick.

He turned to all the onlookers and in his very low pitched voice, “hey, how's it going?”. A cheeky grin spread across his face. Everybody plugged their noses and fanned the air around them. Maybe they weren’t looking at him for his looks… It was the smell! The street is filled with B.O and moldy avocado. ‘Yum just what everyone wanted’. When he got home, he felt his squishy tummy rumbling, LUNCH TIME! He doesn’t eat the usual food like, rocks or soil. He ate chips. That was all. The chips he ate were a bumpy rough pattern, like his skin.

After Avo Man had eaten, he went to sit on the couch, to watch the television. That’s all he ever did. When his favourite sports team loses, he’d rage and throw stuff everywhere. Last time that happened he pushed his sleeping friend off the couch and he came back the next day with a broken collar bone. (yes carrots have collar bones) At the end of the day, Avo man feels pretty darn tired (even though he didn’t actually do anything) he goes to bed to dream about food. Good night Avo Man.

Simon The Cat Character Description - By Chloe

 

I have been learning to do Character Description writing. My writing is about Simon the cat. It is explaining what he looks like, and what he does.  I did it on Simon the Cat because he seemed cool. I never did Character Description before so it was cool to learn.

My thoughts on should social media be allowed to hold and store our personal information? - Leo

our teacher told us to share our thoughts on different subjects. My topic is: should social media be allowed to store our personal info?

These are the pros and cons on the matter.

Hi my name is Leo. I'm 11 and a year 7 at Otaki College on the Kapiti coast. My question is should social media be allowed to store and hold our personal info? The answer is No. 

Firstly, if apps can get hold of your personal information, they can learn everything about you but they are strangers, also if you say too much it can be used against you. People can get your passwords and sometimes get into your bank account. 

Secondly, some sites like facebook or instagram save all the photos you post, even the ones you delete. This makes the site untrustworthy with your personal things like your age and address.

Thirdly, on the plus side, the game can set itself up to your age level. Others use your comments or suggestions to make the game or app better.

My final opinion is that No, social media should not be allowed to store our personal info. Yes it might make the app or site better, but do they all? The true answer is no, not really. Gaming sites like roblox, save your conversations with other players and tell the big company owners what you like and send ads using that information and think you will click and go by something because you like it. That is my opinion on should social media store our info.