Tech - First Week Back

Today we have returned to the cooking rooms to learn how to cook and be safe when in the kitchen. For today's session we made butter chicken. It was served with rice and it was amazing. Today I worked with Junior because of the absence of both our partners. Firstly we diced the chicken into pieces. Secondly we fried the chicken while our partners finely diced the onions. After that we took out the chicken and fried the onions until they were translucent. We then added the butter chicken sauce, the already fried chicken, and 1 cup of cream. After adding them we let it simmer then turned the heat off when bubbles started appearing in the food. After this session we only have two sessions left until the next orientation.

Tech Reflection - Rock Cakes

Today was our fifth session cooking with Mrs Tuipolotu and we made rock cakes. As my partner Ofa is away I was baking by myself. The rock cakes are all different sizes and to me they looked like baked pancakes. I enjoyed cooking this week but I can not wait until we start cooking savoury food. The three most important things we will learn after this orientation is to listen to instructions, measure ingredients correctly, and have the ability to read instruction. If we do this again I will make my rock cakes a bit smaller and more even. Here are the ingredients for rock cakes:

1 1/2 cup with S.R. flour

chocolate chips

 1/2 cup of sugar

1/2 cup of cream

1/4 cup of oil

1 egg

pre heat oven to 180 degrees

Tech Reflection - Food Technology

Today was our first time cooking a savoury dish with Mrs Tuipolotu. Today Ofa and I made twelve ham and cheese quiche. Firstly we cut the pastry into twelve and put them into a muffin tray, then  we diced the ham finely and added the grated cheese and the ham into our pastry. After that we whisked the eggs and milk then poured the liquid mixture over all the quiches. Lastly we set the temperature of the oven to 180 degrees and cooked it for 15 minutes. I really enjoyed cooking today because we are now cooking a variety of different cooking techniques and dishes. The ingredients are:

A slice of ham
Cheese (grated)
4 eggs
1/2 cup of milk

Tech Reflection - Cooking

Today we have started the new orientation and my group will be doing cooking. The three things we will learn from cooking is learning how to listen to instructions, choosing the right ingredients, and how to measure the ingredients correctly. Today we made pancakes but using a different technique because I usually use butter not oil. I will be working with Ofa for this orientation.

Art Tech - Last Session

Today was our last session of art tech and to end a great orientation we learnt about jewellery boxes from the maori culture. The jewellery box from the maori culture is known as a waka huia. A traditional waka huia consists of feathers from the huia bird and has cultural maori patterns. Contemporary on the other hand does not have feathers from a huia bird and nor does it have carvings. Prices also differ because of the authenticity and the age. We were asked to create sections of the waka huia. The photo above is a Kiwi who is sticking his beak in ferns. That is the lid of my waka huia. A waka huia usually holds green stone pendants and special jewellery. The waka huia is similar to the Japanese himitsu bako. I really enjoyed learning something about a culture and it was fun being taught by Mrs Telefoni. Mrs Telefoni is without a doubt one of the best tech teachers I had. Thank you Mrs Telefoni for a great orientation.    

What We Have Been Doing at Tech.

This orientation, group 8b have been chosen to partake in art with Mrs Telefoni. So far we have been carving, drawing, colouring, and inking. We firstly created a Google slide where we created symbols that meant a lot to us. After that we drew the symbols on blocks of wood. Next we carved them out. After that we inked them and then ran them through a newsprint machine. It was very interesting to learn about all these different techniques artists use. Thank you Tamaki College for inviting us to come and enjoy the tech experience.

Tech Reflection - W4

Today we have finished colouring in our symbols and now we are transferring them onto our blocks. We had to use yellow and white as our compulsory colours and I chose three other colours. It was hard to focus as other students were loud. I managed to get 3 out of 5 symbols on the block. It took me a while because they are all detailed and hard to draw. I am not good at art that is why I do not like art but it was fun with Mrs Telefoni.

Art Tech

We have finally finished our digital personal symbols and now we are transferring them on paper. Today we were given a piece paper to put our symbols on. We created five squares on the paper then we started drawing. I have not quite finished all of it but I have already filled in three squares. I found it challenging because I am not good at art and I don't like it either.

Tech Reflection

This year was the year 7's first time going to tech at Tamaki College. This year I did digital tech with Ms Anderson, food tech with Mrs Heka, and graphics with Miss Ferguson. They were all great but my favourite is food tech. In food tech we made some nice food and did some boring paper work.The first thing we made with Mrs Heka was an Oreo milkshake and the last thing we made was a moist chocolate log. They were both my favourite thing to make besides the pizza we made. With Ms Anderson we made a short animation of a problem that effects New Zealand, littering. This is a major problem in a lot of countries. With Ms Ferguson we learnt how the laser cutter and the 3d printer works. I have learnt many skills from these activities like how to use scratch, how to make chicken goujons and how to use a 3d printer. These were some of the many skills I learnt this year thanks to tech. Thank you Mrs Heka, Ms Anderson, and Miss Ferguson for an exciting time at tech this year.

Food Tech With Mrs Heka

Oh my gosh!!! at tech, it was hectic. People running around like headless chickens and utensils flying from one side of the room to the other, but as usual we made some mouth watering food. Today we made chicken goujons. Ofa and I really had fun. The hardest thing was trying to flip the chicken with the tongs because the oil kept spitting at us. This was a crazy day but I can't wait for our next session with Mrs Heka.

Tech At Tamaki College W2

Ms Anderson (digitech teacher at Tamaki College) has given us the permission to started creating short animated story using scratch. In my short animation I am addressing the cyber bullying problem because I think it has a negative physiological effect on youth. I won the same Kahoot twice today. The Kahoot was a fun activity. I hope my animation will encourage people to stop bullying people on the net.

Tech W5 T2

Every Friday we go to Tamaki College for tech. For this rotation I am in digital tech where we are learning how to code. Today we have continued using the hour of code the Moana game. This game teaches us how to code games and it is preparing us to code our own story. Today we have been learning about loops. Loops is a code that is a short cut of repeating something without putting more codes in.