Homework: Economy

Mr. Adrian did an amazing job with his first ever Pecha Kucha today. He shared some of his personal history and why he is so fascinated by economics. He also made us think about the world and how economics is all about how we use the Earth’s resources and not just about money.

He spoke about balance and how our needs and wants should be balanced with what is available. Our problem today, it seems, is that we are “off balance”. We want so much more than the world can provide. He also said, and this is very important, that economics can offer solutions to all the world’s problems!

Think about your issue. How is economics part of the problem? How could it be part of the solution? Are the problems of your issue caused by things being “off balance”? Explain your answers in detail.

Photo by Jasen Miller on Flickr

Homework: Well-being

Ms. Ashley really made us all think with her wonderful talk this afternoon. She started off her talk by reading us the information in this table:

Imagine that you are 30 years old and that you are making a speech to an audience of 10 and 11 year old kids. What things would you put into the table? Make a comment and try and do as many as you can.

Explain this quote

“It is wonderful how much can be

 done if we are always doing.”

Thomas Jefferson

Photo by littledan77 on Flickr

Video Collage

Hello I made a cool video collogue with motion. This is test. This will probably will not  e as good as my old ones because I am starting on a blank canvas.

Homework – Nature

Mr. Andy Dorn made a presentation about nature. He explained why nature is such a passion of his, and he shared some information about the way the future could go if we don’t start thinking about nature a lot more than we do. He made me think of the following questions:

• How often do you connect with nature?
• What connections are there between nature and your issue?
• How does this quote by Mr. Andy relate to your issue?

“There’s so many of us and we all want so much stuff!”

• Mr. Andy said that “nature is at the center of everything”. Is it at the center of your issue? Why? Why not?
• How does the quote in the picture below relate to your issue?

Photographs by TropicaLiving and Evie22 on Flickr

Homework – Society

Today, Mr. Doug made a presentation about society. He spoke very honestly about his upbringing as a member of Maori society and the values that he has developed as a result. He spoke about the importance of the family, about the importance of listening to our elders and the importance of being part of a community. His talk made me think of these questions:

• How important are families in your issue?
• How important is your community in your issue?
• How much do we listen to our elders?
• How does listening to our elders fit into your issue?
• What about your culture? Is there anything in your culture that is causing your issue to become worse? Is there anything in your culture that could create solutions to your issue?

Photo by wili_hybrid on Flickr

Motion Mania

Hello 6ss here are some more intros or slogans (sound in all but 1) All made by MEEE

Earth Hour

Yesterday was Earth Hour. I hope all of you didn’t use electricity. My family (my mum, brother and I) closed our lights for all the Earth Hour. We didn’t use computers or anything else too. I think we should have Earth hour more often and it should be longer, also big businesses should also take part. Here is a video of Sydney on Earth hour and official video for Earth hour.

Female rights-Talk with my Mom

On Friday night me and my mom had a discussion about what females were treated like in India. First of all we talked about Sikhism.Did you know that the Gurus changed a part of future? What they did was whenever people came to listen to their teachings they would make all of the woman who came to take of the scarf’s covering their faces, Before in India there was no such religion as Sikhism there were only Hindus and Muslims and in both religions they had to cover up there faces like how Muslims still do now.  I am glad they stopped woman from doing such  things not needed because. When you cover up your face sometimes people get a little suspicious and really want to see it and I think that if there faces weren’t covered most men wouldn’t really care as much.

A long time ago women were treated very disrespectful, I am not saying that all families treated females the same way but most families did. They would call females a mans shoes.  In the olden days women and men weren’t treated equal. The only thing that women needed to do was keep her husband happy and if he died all of her in-laws would curse her. They sometimes make the wife sit on top of the fire that is burning the husband { A long time a go there was only would that was used to burn bodies} and die alive or they would shave the woman’s hair and lock her up in a cell and treat her like she a dirty person and never let her out until she dies. This only happens to females. But now most woman and men are treated more equally. But I think in India this still happens.

Exhibition Work

Hello 6ss. On saturday I went out and spent a huge sum of money for my exhibition. I bought this program called motion and I use motion to make my video intros. I also use it to make people interested when they watch my videos. I also like to play around with it. So I made some intros for you guys.

Some one who fails the exhibition (this is what they present and I used my name as an example) There is no sound.

My exhibition intro: