Chop Sticks - R1

• Explain the physical activity you participated in.

Chop Sticks is a game similar to Capture the Flag. Instead of a flag/cone, we had to steal a hockey puck, and without picking up with our hands, we had to use two hockey sticks. To take the puck we had to pick the puck up like chop sticks (with our two hockey sticks) and go to our side of the court, without being tagged by the opponent.

• What level of effort and engagement were you participating at during today’s physical activity? Why? (Grade yourself NA, A or M and refer to marking criteria)

I give myself a Merit because I did things relating to the marking criteria such as I tried my best when this was a new game, I helped others out when they were stuck on something like how to hold onto the puck, working towards my goal by stealing at least 3 pucks on the other side, and being motivated when I set myself a goal to achieve.

• What were three factors which influenced your participation? (Choose from the list below, and put a + or - beside the three factors to show whether it positively or negatively influenced your participation).

Competition +, Fun/Enjoyment +, Well-being -

• Explain HOW these factors affected your participation (with specific examples)

Competition affected my participation in a positive way because the puck wasn't easy to get when attacking, it was challenging, which I like in games. An example of having Competition when I was attacking for the ball, but I got tagged by the opponent.

Fun/Enjoyment affected my participation in a positive way because the game wasn't boring, so it made me want to play. An example of having Fun/Enjoyment was when we laughed throughout the game.

Well-being affected my participation in a negative way because I was tired. I didn't want to play but I made myself play. An example of this was when I let the player get the puck, instead of tagging him.

• How could you increase your (or your peers) participation in this activity in the future?

To sleep early the night before, so I won't be tired for our practical. This will give a positive affect in my participation because I am wide awake instead of being drowsy and sleepy.

Being Adaptable

Being Adaptable in PE.

A strategy that I chose was being adaptable during class. This means to accept a change of plan and to manage myself throughout the change. I am going to apply this in my learning if my teacher changes her mind in what we are doing for class, for example, if we were told it is going to be a practical period but then is changed to a theory period, I will not be upset and slow to latch on to her decision in class. Getting on with my leftover work or continuing to play in practical is what I will do to be adaptable in PE.

SWOT Analysis

A SWOT Analysis identifies our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in different tasks. SWOT makes us look back on our progress and allows us to improve more in what we do.

Strengths:

• Theory Work
• Getting my work done
• Bringing my gear
• Volleyball
• Mixing with the class during class time

Weaknesses:

• Encouraging others often
• Working for my goals
• Motivating myself
• Disagreeing with people who are wrong lol
• Getting angry haha

Opportunities:

• Miss Dougherty
• Listening in class
• Working diligently

Threats:

• YouTube
• Instagram
• Class members who don't listen lol
• Not coming to school
• Ivan's music

Self Management

• What is self-management?

To me, self-management is an instinct that us people have. It controls what we do and how we do it. It also means to me whether we can look after or manage ourselves when nobody is around. If I was to go off task while doing an important assessment, that wouldn't make me self-managed, due to me losing study time for a good cause. Some strategies you could do to be self managed is put away or hide what ever is distracting you and get on with your given task, this is called self control. Another strategy you could do to be more self-managed is not give up and let someone else finish your task for you, this is called resilience. 

My thoughts on blogging

• What are your previous experiences with blogging?

In intermediate, our class would write about events that we experienced, such as the Manaiakalani Film Festival. We also would blog our speeches or narrative writings, so that other people could read and comment on our blogs. I stopped blogging when I came to college.

• How do you think blogging impacts on your learning?

I think blogging impacts on my learning because it can teach me how to express more in the way I learn, for example writing about how my day was, or what was going through my mind during a certain time, this makes me feel confident with my audience which lets me express.

• How do you feel about blogging? Why?

What I feel about blogging is it can be boring when there isn't a story or post I want to write about, because I'm not interested in that topic. If there was a topic I was interested in, I would be more locked into my writing, allowing me to write properly.

Creating a Game

I've used Scratch to recreate a Basic Platformer Game. The game has 3 levels, I needed to use codes to make this game possible. Some examples of commands were if then, if else, when _ clicked, touching colour, broadcast ect.

I'm going to add more levels, that will include more obstacles, challenges and backgrounds.

I have learnt that each command has it's own purpose in the game. Also coding can be cool.

Integers

W.A.L.T: revisit problems

This game was all about integers. I found it easy at first then challenging when the game was coming to an end. i found it hard because I was getting confused with the numbers. Next I would like to revise more on integers.