Journal

Journal. Week 1

This week (27th of April to 1st of May) so far we have learnt lot of good and interesting information. The speakers that came in and talked to us were very interesting and helpful, that will help our group through our stone field’s horizon project. On Monday this week Peter Mallow from AUT came in and talked to us about ways to set up a classroom and showed us ideas of new technology that we could include in our classrooms and he showed us a lot more interesting helpful ideas. I really liked two of his suggestions that may help children’s learning. He suggested that there would be 5 classrooms next to each other but there would be no walls separating the 5 so teachers teaching the children can watch the teaches teaching the other children different subjects. The teaches in other rooms can walk around the other classrooms watching how the other classes are working and what they are working on while their class is working she can still see her children working. I also liked his idea of having white boards all around the classroom and in the hallways so if you have ideas r notices and you want to share them with others you can write them up on the white board so when students are walking past they can read the notice. I also liked his idea of having couches or outside benches in the hallways so you can sit down and talk about school work or your ideas with your friends. On Tuesday Claire Dixon and Anne Bowman came to speak to us. Clair Dixon is an Architecture and uses sketch up to design schools buildings etc. She came into talk to us about how to use sketch up, designing houses and buildings etc. It helped a lot to know useful tools to use and different architecture designs that we can incorporate in our designs for our school. Anne Bowman from the Minister of Education also came to speak to us about what will be important to have in a school like around 25 classrooms, fire exits, storage cupboards, toilets, fields, car parks etc. On Wednesday Albert and John came in to talk to us about visual efffects. I didn’t really get what they were saying and what it had to do with the project that we were doing. It was interesting but a bit confusing because they were talking about electronics and gaming etc. It was fun to listen to but I didn't know what it had to do without project.

Journal. Week 2. Wednesday

This week so far has been a very stressful tiring few days of the week. We have been struggling to figure the dimensions of the site and classrooms, bathrooms etc. On Monday we were all assigned to do jobs. We got done half of the website, the uniform and the school logo. We started on Google sketch up, starting on the playground and the classrooms. On Tuesday we designed the school grounds and the deigns of the bathrooms etc. On Tuesday as well we collected our materials for our cardboard model and started to design the base of out model. Today we are continuing on our sketch up and the web page for the rest of the day and working as a team to finish this project. Our goal for today is getting all the dimensions of all our classrooms, bathrooms etc. We are hoping to be half way through our project by the end of the week.