Wednesday 28 August 2019
Thursday 22 August 2019
Personal Device Speech Recording
Kia ora, Ko Hannah toku ingoa.
If you are always on devices it’s really hard to put it down, right?
Some side effects of continuously being on personal devices are that people become extremely
indolent, they can be involved in serious accidents and there are other grave risks to personal health.
First I would like to talk about the health risks that transpire from being on your personal devices.
The blue light in your screens plays a big part in health risks. Blue light is everywhere and your eyes
can’t block it out very well. Some blue light is good, like the sunlight but some is bad and adversely
affects the eye. Scientific studies show that blue light agitates sensitive cells within the retina, and too
much of it can lead to the loss of eyesight.
Blue light also affects your sleeping patterns. For example when we first wake up in the morning we
see blue light, which is the sun, and once we wake up in the morning we shouldn’t fall asleep again
until nightfall. When it gets dark our body starts to produce melatonin a few hours before we
go to bed, melatonin helps to trigger sleep. But if we go on a screen before bed, or have white
lights on it confuses your body and therefore you could have trouble sleeping.
There are also physical health risks that come with being on a device. Hunched over a device
alters your posture and weakens your back which becomes a big problem and one day your back
will always be hunched over. When you have an uncomfortable seat and you slouch in it, it will
make matters much worse. Your shoulders and neck become sore because when you type you pull
your shoulders up. Wrists, hands and fingers can also be victims of pain, cutting off blood supply
to the nerves and causing injuries like carpal tunnel syndrome. If you move your mouse awkwardly
you can put a strain on your wrist and injure it, the same occurs to your fingers from typing too much.
People are spending too much time on devices. Parents are using ipads, phones and computers
as babysitters. When parents want to complete something they just throw their child in front of a screen.
Studies show that children from the age of 2 - 5 should only be spending a maximum of 1 hour on a
device a day. Children from ages 8 - 18 should be on a device for the maximum of 2 -3 hours a day.
If young children have been used to being on a device since they were babies they forget how to
entertain themselves. Instead of going outside to play or playing imaginary games with friends they
sit inside in front of a screen.
There have been many fatal accidents that have happened in New Zealand, and guess what the
cause was? Being on a device! Last year there were 12 car crashes when the end result
was fatal, 155 serious injury crashes and 956 minor injury crashes. Being distracted as a driver
is a very hazardous road safety risk. Even taking your eyes off the road for a few seconds could
lead to a crash.
There have also been accidents where people have been absolutely careless and walked across
the road and and train tracks with headphones on or being distracted on their devices. To prevent
death people should take out headphones and get off devices when they are crossing the road and
train tracks to avoid distraction.
In conclusion I think that we should have limited time on devices. I think that being on a
device too much can have a serious negative impact on your health later on in life and that
we should be careful. Parents should also limit the time that their young children have on
devices because it could affect the children later on in life. As Arianna Huffington said,
“Disconnecting from our technology to reconnect with ourselves is absolutely essential.”
If you are always on devices it’s really hard to put it down, right?
Some side effects of continuously being on personal devices are that people become extremely
indolent, they can be involved in serious accidents and there are other grave risks to personal health.
First I would like to talk about the health risks that transpire from being on your personal devices.
The blue light in your screens plays a big part in health risks. Blue light is everywhere and your eyes
can’t block it out very well. Some blue light is good, like the sunlight but some is bad and adversely
affects the eye. Scientific studies show that blue light agitates sensitive cells within the retina, and too
much of it can lead to the loss of eyesight.
Blue light also affects your sleeping patterns. For example when we first wake up in the morning we
see blue light, which is the sun, and once we wake up in the morning we shouldn’t fall asleep again
until nightfall. When it gets dark our body starts to produce melatonin a few hours before we
go to bed, melatonin helps to trigger sleep. But if we go on a screen before bed, or have white
lights on it confuses your body and therefore you could have trouble sleeping.
There are also physical health risks that come with being on a device. Hunched over a device
alters your posture and weakens your back which becomes a big problem and one day your back
will always be hunched over. When you have an uncomfortable seat and you slouch in it, it will
make matters much worse. Your shoulders and neck become sore because when you type you pull
your shoulders up. Wrists, hands and fingers can also be victims of pain, cutting off blood supply
to the nerves and causing injuries like carpal tunnel syndrome. If you move your mouse awkwardly
you can put a strain on your wrist and injure it, the same occurs to your fingers from typing too much.
People are spending too much time on devices. Parents are using ipads, phones and computers
as babysitters. When parents want to complete something they just throw their child in front of a screen.
Studies show that children from the age of 2 - 5 should only be spending a maximum of 1 hour on a
device a day. Children from ages 8 - 18 should be on a device for the maximum of 2 -3 hours a day.
If young children have been used to being on a device since they were babies they forget how to
entertain themselves. Instead of going outside to play or playing imaginary games with friends they
sit inside in front of a screen.
There have been many fatal accidents that have happened in New Zealand, and guess what the
cause was? Being on a device! Last year there were 12 car crashes when the end result
was fatal, 155 serious injury crashes and 956 minor injury crashes. Being distracted as a driver
is a very hazardous road safety risk. Even taking your eyes off the road for a few seconds could
lead to a crash.
There have also been accidents where people have been absolutely careless and walked across
the road and and train tracks with headphones on or being distracted on their devices. To prevent
death people should take out headphones and get off devices when they are crossing the road and
train tracks to avoid distraction.
In conclusion I think that we should have limited time on devices. I think that being on a
device too much can have a serious negative impact on your health later on in life and that
we should be careful. Parents should also limit the time that their young children have on
devices because it could affect the children later on in life. As Arianna Huffington said,
“Disconnecting from our technology to reconnect with ourselves is absolutely essential.”
Wednesday 21 August 2019
Kea Poem
Kea
Glorious and glistening, te Ra rises
over magical mountains
Majestic manu awakes
Kea, expanding wings,
a burst of sunset colours fill the morning air
Diving down, gliding peacefully through the crispy cold air
Warm colours like burning lava,
cool colours like the deep, dark moana
Squawking echoing above the maunga
Landing in an alpine larch in search of kai
Dark beady eyes lined in yellow look down
Eyes as black as thunderclouds
Sharp, curved beak opens
Dispensing a piercing sound
Knife like talons open
Swoop down and grab food
Looking curiously at the sinking sun
and speeding cars
Then spreads out its wings and flies silently home.
Tuesday 20 August 2019
Embedding Screencastifies
Today we worked with Mrs Minehan. We learnt how to put a screencastify on our blog by embedding the item. This way is a lot quicker and I will keep using it. This video is me doing a voice over of one the poems that I wrote called Life Of A Tree.
Thursday 8 August 2019
The Amazing Adventures Of Super Stan
On the 7th of August on Wednesday, Karoro senior school got invited to see a Grey Main school production. We went down on a bus at 12:40 pm and were seated in their school hall. We were invited to see their dress rehearsal performance.
At the start of the production there was a boy called Staggering Stanley or Stan for short, who was daydreaming about being a superhero. His friend DC told him to “Stop daydreaming” and come back to the real world.
The Candy King came to Proton Park to meet with the Mayor. Everyone thought that the Candy King was nice but he was secretly evil. He made these new gobstoppers and fed them to the townspeople and they became his slaves. Stan and his friends found out that the Candy King is evil and go and tell Stan’s Granny.
When they tell Stan’s Granny she tells Stan that he is a superhero and he can’t believe it because that is what he has always wanted to be. She tells him that when he was a baby she accidentally mixed up him milk with formula 44. At the park she gives him the other half of the formula and he turns into Super Stan. Super Stan wears his Grandfather's old undies that Granny these undies give him the power to fly.
Stanley and his friends go to the Candy King’s palace and find him. Stanley fights the Candy King’s minions and his two new sidekicks called Curly and Wurly. Then once Stan defeats the minions he fights the Candy King and the Candy King uses his powers on Stan but they backfired and he ended up shrinking himself.
When Granny picked up the Candy King, Stan finds out that the Candy King is his Grandfather, but Granny is not happy with the Candy King and takes him away. The whole play is filled with songs that move the action along.
I enjoyed watching the production and I think that they put in a lot of effort and it paid off. Maybe next time they could turn the microphones down because it was really loud at some points,
At the start of the production there was a boy called Staggering Stanley or Stan for short, who was daydreaming about being a superhero. His friend DC told him to “Stop daydreaming” and come back to the real world.
The Candy King came to Proton Park to meet with the Mayor. Everyone thought that the Candy King was nice but he was secretly evil. He made these new gobstoppers and fed them to the townspeople and they became his slaves. Stan and his friends found out that the Candy King is evil and go and tell Stan’s Granny.
When they tell Stan’s Granny she tells Stan that he is a superhero and he can’t believe it because that is what he has always wanted to be. She tells him that when he was a baby she accidentally mixed up him milk with formula 44. At the park she gives him the other half of the formula and he turns into Super Stan. Super Stan wears his Grandfather's old undies that Granny these undies give him the power to fly.
Stanley and his friends go to the Candy King’s palace and find him. Stanley fights the Candy King’s minions and his two new sidekicks called Curly and Wurly. Then once Stan defeats the minions he fights the Candy King and the Candy King uses his powers on Stan but they backfired and he ended up shrinking himself.
When Granny picked up the Candy King, Stan finds out that the Candy King is his Grandfather, but Granny is not happy with the Candy King and takes him away. The whole play is filled with songs that move the action along.
I enjoyed watching the production and I think that they put in a lot of effort and it paid off. Maybe next time they could turn the microphones down because it was really loud at some points,
Monday 5 August 2019
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