Google Cardboards

While the year 8’s were at Tamaki College for tech, the year 7 students were having a lot of fun visiting places like India, Buckingham Palace, the Colosseum and much more.

Today some of the year 7 students used google cardboards for the first time. Google Cardboard is a virtual reality platform that was developed by google and was released in 2014. It was created by two very intelligent men whose names are David Coz and Damien Henry, they are google engineers from the Google Culture Institute in Paris.

It was incredible, we had even search a part of outer space we saw africa, the moon and millions of bright shining stars. We had even gone to the tallest building in the world that was in Dubai and we also went to Buckingham Palace and The Royal Mall which we learnt has 1,514 doors and 760 windows that have to we polished every week.

My favourite place was the deep blue sea where I saw the amazing bullshark who is said to be the most aggressive sea creature in the shark department even more aggressive than the great white, I also saw the giant whale shark it was so fun and did you know that the whale shark can grow up to 20 m in length - up to 20 tonnes.

It wasn’t the first time I had used this google product before, I use this incredible product when the year 7 & 8 extension group went to the GEGNZ which stands for (Google Education Groups In New Zealand). We went there to learn how other people use Google and if they use google apps for different purposes.

I had so much fun with the google cardboards and I hope I get to use it another time.

Commonwealth Facts

Commonwealth:

What is the Commonwealth?

The Commonwealth is a club that first started 84 years ago. The first countries to join the commonwealth was New Zealand, Australia, Pakistan, Canada and South Africa. Commonwealth is a group of countries from all around the world.

Countries who are part of this?  

The countries that have participated in the commonwealth games are the countries that have been ruled by Britain and the Queen.

Where in the world are these countries?

What do these countries have in common?

They all voluntarily want to be apart of the Commonwealth.

A Interesting Facts:

Did you know that if you start a war and you are in the Commonwealth you will automatically get disqualified. The Countries that have been disqualified are Nigeria, Zimbabwe and two countries Fiji and Pakistan have been disqualified twice.

Click here to find out all of the Commonwealth Countries.

WALT: Add more detail to the Beginning, Middle and end of our Sentences

This Movie has taught me to use more detail to hook my audience in. It has also taught me how to add detail to the Beginning, Middle and end of our sentences.

Use your Wits.

Using your Wits means to always do the right thing. It also means you have to follow 4 steps which are W walk away, I ignore it, T talk about it and S seek help. First we are going to talk about W walk away.

 If people are Bullying you, you should walk away. If you don’t walk away then there are many bad things that can happen to you. Even though they are pushing or teasing you just use your Wits. The next step is to ignore it, if people are making fun of you, walk away and ignore it.

Another example is if people are teasing you, calling you names and other things you just have to ignore it. If you talk about it, it will make you happy and it will also solve many of your problems. There are lots of thing you could talk about, like if you pet died or someone is teasing you just talk about it.

 To Seek help you have to find a teacher or an adult and tell them what's wrong. It also means that the person who was bullying you would learn a lesson. Using your WITS can help you by not being bullied. If you use your WITS you'll be happy and you will be able to enjoy the rest of your day knowing what you can do if that ever happens again.