Reflection On Term 4

In English, this term has really pushed me to my limits with assessments, tests, and tasks that have really had a challenging impact on my learning. The first challenge that I had found hard was having my assessments done in a certain amount of time and making sure that they were finished to my ability. Another task that I had found challenging was having to do a presentation in front of the class and having to be recorded. This was a really big step for me as I wasn't as confident as I thought I would have been when I was having to do a review on the Coach Carter film. Tests were okay but hard at the same time but I'm glad I had finished them in time. Apart from that my class has been doing fun activities that I have enjoyed and have also connected with them during this term. I think next term I could probably focus on my work a bit more and plan out differently, and also build more confidence in my work and make sure I show it. This year has been pretty good itself apart from a couple of problems but, overall I think that this term has been an enjoyable term and has had a positive impact on myself.   

Coach Carter

Coach Carter is a motivational movie where he teaches kids from streets with nowhere to go discipline, respect, and the importance of education through the sport Basketball. Mr Carter turns into a role model for them and shows them that there is more in life than drugs and having no education in life. He also wants them to get a scholarship, think about the future and let them have the opportunities that he had.

The way that Coach Carter had demonstrated and showed discipline was that he took his training's to extreme measures and enforcing the way that he wanted things done in his team for basketball but also for their school work. The way that he does this for basketball is that he uses contact towards them and really meaningful words that could possibly contribute in his life. For their school work he uses what they love against them, for example Mr Carter closes the gym and cancels their games until they can attend all classes and obtain a 2.3 average.

Another aspect that Coach Carter was looking at was them showing respect towards other team players and to their coach. At the start they were very slack at doing it but then Coach Carter had them really think about their future and know what values that they would have needed for themselves and others. Also they were being very unsportsmanlike in one of their games so then Mr Carter had interpreted them in their game at training and showed them how the other team was feeling. It had worked and they showed sportsmanship throughout and after their future games.

I could learn a lot of Interpersonal Skills and attitudes towards others, learning and sports. Watching this movie was very mesmerizing and delivered different messages throughout the movie. We could use discipline in the classroom by really restraining ourselves from others, while the teachers talking and use respect by looking after one another and treating others the way we want to be treated.

WALT Evaluating Game Platforms

The first game that we are starting to evaluate is the trailer of Journey. This game was made for PS4 and was created on unity. The music in this video is mysterious but adventurous in a dark kind of way. From my first person view the graphics were of high quality, including the player and background. This game would not be for adventurous people as I feel like it is a strategy/puzzle kind of game. The best thing that I find about this game that I saw in the trailer is that you don't have to follow a script and that you can choose your path throughout the game, like Assassins Creed  and Cratos. Overall personally I think I would enjoy this game, and puzzle games would as well.

The second game that we have evaluated is called Never Alone that was created on Unity and can be played on  STEAM, PS4 or XBOX ONE.This game was made in Alaska and they made it because they weren't connecting with youth. Also because of the media and the attendance at the schools were very low. At the start it has writings that give little hints about the game. The music in the trailer seems adventurous as well but also majestically at the same time. In the game it shows a girl and a dog that are following 1 path and seem to be surviving by themselves. The graphics are high quality like Journey. This game has helped Alaska greatly because the children's attendance was 55 percent and went up to 91 percent. Could this be a possibility for our community?

Error Control

What are parity cards?

Parity cards are cards that have black on one side and white on the other. Those two represent two different things which is where the black represents and even, and the white represents an odd. The cards are used for coding like in computerizing. The only difference is that they use slightly different coding like 111101000100.

What did we do?

We got into groups of three or four and sat down on the floor with these cards. We would arrange them in 8 columns and 8 rows. We made sure that the columns were even and had one of the people from our group turn around. One of us would turn a card over and the person who turned around, turns back around and tries to find which card is flipped over. This helps us and the people who do computerizing find the error in the coding.

HCF DLO

Peace Haiku

Welcome to my new learning blog I thought that this process was easy once I knew what I was doing.