Digital Technolgy

For the past few weeks we have been doing our digital technology hurumanu. At the start of this hurumanu we had to either choose to work in groups or work by ourselves. I chose to work in a group with Myself, Shelby, Tasharn, Felicity and Ella. Our issue is that the rubbish that gets dumped into the ocean is affecting our aquatic wildlife, which is why we need to stop it. Our issue is classed under social and enviromental issues. We are going to use the sphero robots to get through a "under water" maze that me and my group made. Once we have finished the map I will post a photo of the finished product and also a video of us completing the maze.

Hurumanu Digital Technology

This week for Digital Technology we looked at some different apps called Scratch and another called Sphero Robots. I am going to tell you about what they both are about and then I will write a personal comment. I prefer to use Sphero Robots because I think that Scratch is a little hard to use and the Sphero Robots are really easy.


Scratch:
Scratch is a web based software which is about coding games, animations and stories. There is also a Scratch Jr which is a little bit easier to use for the little kids who are learning to code.

Sphero Robots:
This app is about coding robots to do cool tricks and other things. You can manually control it and you can also program It as well.
You can also make the lights change colours and then that makes it look really cool.

Personal Comment:
I think that the Sphero Robots are really cool but I just don't think that Scratch was made to be easy for anyone.

Community Circles

Today we had to make a blog post about a thing we do called community circles. I worked with my best friend Shelby on this piece of work. We do community circles because it gets us to think about our emotions. Here is my slideshow! Enjoy.

Digital Tech, Hurumanu

For the past few weeks we have started a new hurumanu called Digital Tech. Digital Tech is where we were introduced to three different themes for issues in our earth. They were Ethical, Social and Environmental, I chose Environmental. 

My issue is that our house cats are killing off our native birds and that is NOT ok. But, a man named Gareth Morgan is trying to kill off our cats which is not ok either. So I am going to make a game or app to show that we can keep our native birds and house cats around at the same time. 

References:

1. Youtube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7czFfK3nVks

This video was a youtube show and they were talking about how this man wants get rid of cats non stop. But, if we get rid of cats then there will be more rats and they are disgusting.

2. Website https://www.forestandbird.org.nz/resources/cats-pet-or-pest

People think that if we get rid of cats It will be a good thing. ( that's what this website said I want to save the cats) The think that if we....

• Get our cats neutered or spade
• Put a bell on your cats collar
• Not replacing your cat when It dies
• Keeping it inside at night

that will solve the problem.

3. Second website https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/31/17804982/cat-ban-new-zealand-omaui-conservation-wildlife

This website was about the other side of the story. They think that the cats should stay alive but we find a solution to save both the cats and the birds. They have a few ideas but the haven't made them public yet.