Ext Research on RnB

Task:

We needed to research the history on Rhythm and Blues music (R&B). Find out where it originates. What RnB music is for.  Instruments used for R&B music. Some of the R&B music artists. Some popular and recent R&B songs. Also maybe try to find out how old R&B music may be.

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Rhythm and Blues, often referred to as RnB or R&B, is a popular African-American genre of music. RnB was originated in the 1940s, thinking about that means it's been around for 67 years and almost 68! RnB music is often written to express African -Americans experiences of pain and their adventure or quest for freedom and happiness.

Some very popular Rhythm and Blues artists are, Beyonce, Chris Brown, Usher, Rihanna, Drake, J Cole, Alicia Keys ect. From around the 1950s to 1970s piano was a main instrument in RnB bands. Also used commonly were one or two guitars, bass, drums, saxophone and sometimes background vocalists(singers).

R&B music originated from America in the 1940s. Producer and writer Robert Palmer defined Rhythm and Blues as “A catchall term referring to any music that was made by and for black americans.” Some very Popular R&B songs from this year are Young, Dumb and Broke, Wild Thoughts, Questions and Havana has also recently become popular.

This term in extension we are writing orginal songs. Our chosen genre is RnB and we had to research the history behind it. The task above ^ shows what I researched.

GEGNZ Student Summit

Today I was gifted the privilege of attending this years GEGNZ (Google for Education group) Student Summit and Ormistan Junior College. The group that attended was the year 7&8 Extension group along with Mrs Langitupu. Starting the day we had a huge welcome from Ormistan Junior college and primary.

We were split in two groups as we were presenting two different workshops. My group did a scratch workshop teaching others how to create a game using coding. The other group showed and presented how we use a school network to get notices around, that is called PENN (Pt England News Network.)

There were over 400 different students from schools around Auckland and even some from down south. We had a range of different workshops like Telligami, Robotics and loads more. I even got to see my old teacher Miss Lavakula. We met her classroom and took heaps of photos.

Four students from Pt England school won prizes they were Mitchell, Simon Ana and Yvonne.
The prize range was huge! Chrome cast to smart globes. I hope to go to this event again next time.

Reflection on game

Intro:
Have you ever created a game using code? Well if you have you should be excited
Task: For the past 10 weeks my partner, Seini and I were assigned to create a game on scratch using our knowledge from last terms experience. The theme was based on space. We needed to include space facts that we read off sites and set challenges for the main sprite in our game.

Starting our Game
Getting started was not a problem but moving on to the next levels was quite tricky. We had to broadcast our sprite on to another backdrop and add a code to the backdrop to receive the broadcast so it would switch backgrounds. If that second step wasn't included than the background would stay the same which was frustrating at times.

Problem Solving
Our second level had the most issues, when trying to get our sprite (spaceship) to shoot at the enemies. Luckily, we had the internet! Tutorials were really useful when we had no help from Zoe. We were eager to learn and extend our knowledge of coding especially if we didn't have an experienced coding adult in the room who worked at O.M.G Tech to help us with it.

Highlight Levels
Level three and four were our easiest levels to work on. The third level had 15 martians attacking and one bullet point where you had to get to; to receive your bit of space information. Our fourth and last level, showed the earth orbiting the sun and had some obstacles around it to block the sprites way from reaching earth.

Conclusion
Unfortunately, my partner and I were terrible at communicating. We also weren't the best group at managing our time as well as w could have. Our game could have been better and more complex if we had done so. So these are one of the main things we need to work on for next time. Overall though putting beside our communication Seini and I created an amazing game and I especially thank her for that.

Game reflection so far

Have you ever used coding to create your very own game? Well for the past 10 weeks in Extension class Seini and I have been creating a space game. We have had a small struggle with getting the spaceship to shoot but we are getting there. One of our most struggles were communication but it has gotten better every week. Today we completed our game with and extra level and 3 fun facts! Last term we made a different game which was a maze one but this term it’s focused more on space and sharing facts and fun. Our whole focus so far this year has been coding using mostly scratch and a little bit of code combat. Before actually starting our game we found out more information about space right here:

Our knowledge with coding had definitely grown alot so far this year. It took alot of different solutions in our game as we had alot of glitches especially with a bonus level.

Exo brake Parachute

This is what i have learnt in extension this morning. It is about the 'Exo brake' parachute. The explanation of it is in the photo above. I found out more about space and also learnt what and exo brake actually is.

I created a game using coding!

Hi there!
This is a game I created using coding. It took me and my group 7-8 weeks to complete all three levels.
At first we didn't know how to use scratch so this was an amazing thing to have made and learnt to do.
so click this Link to play! I hope you like it!

This is our group reflection

My Movie Review - Hidden Figures ~ 2017

Hi Bloggers!
On Wednesday the 8th of March Pt England school's year 7&8 Extension group had to opportunity to go and watch the movie 'Hidden Figures'.  It is based on a true story about three African - American women who worked at NASA, they were part of a group who were behind some of the greatest achievements.  This movie was incredible and it helped me to realise racism and how much of an impact it would be to be racist and how uncool it is.  By the way we also got to take as much lollies, chips and junk food and fizzy drinks. This was an amazing experience to have gone and watched this movie for free! He is a short film with a few photo's and clips of us.

My Visual Mihi

Kia Ora this is my visual mihi.

My visual mihi represents:

Me (in the middle) My Love for Cricket, My Irish side, Family and lastly my favourite sport in the world... Softball!

This Visual is really important to me and I have other on my blog from previous years. It show my hobbies, cares and My cultures.

The water cycle

Walt: create a button animation of the water cycle
Cameo - Water cycle from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

My Book Review

Walt: create a book review using google presentations

This is my book review and The book I read was Planet of the lawn gnomes.
I wrote what I thought about this book. By rating it and thinking more about this book
I loved it even more.

My compare and contrast

This is my Compare and Contrast between me and my mother. I had to interview my mum about what it was like at her school. When she was at school she really wasn't as lucky as I am right now.

LA movie

L.A Movie from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

This movie was made by my extension group Lucy , Alexis , Venetia and Yvonne. We have made an MTV about the Pt England Way and how we work in the digital world. All footage was put together by Alexis and Lucy and also the singing the song is based on happy by pharrell williams. Hope you Enjoy!!

My Logo

 This a school logo I created. It isn't not going to be my schools logo but if we were to change it then that is my idea. 

My Reflection and Review

Walt: create a reflection and review about the production

Reflection:

Last term we had the school production Cindy in da house. I was in it and I thought that the entertainment was very good. Even though I didn’t see the whole thing I still enjoyed participating. My favourite part was when Hannah sang I thought that it was beautiful. And in my dances my favourite was at the prefects ball.

Review:

I would rate the production a 9.75 out of ten only because I know that the cast could have done it better.

The dancing probably wasn’t at its best but it was still awesome. The acting was better than I expected. My favourite actress was the stepmother ( yanquasia ) she was the youngest actress that I have ever loved.

this is my reflection and review about my school production called cindy in da house i hope you like it.