Selwyn House Superheroes!

Selwyn House "Superheroes"

The eLearning and Makerspace Leaders of Selwyn House School for Semester 2 (Harriet, Maya and Ella) have created a website. Our website is called ‘Selwyn House Superheroes’. Our website is called Selwyn House Superheroes because we are creating a game where you can design you own superhero. We have designed our own superheroes…

Our superhero game is found in our subpage labeled 'Mission.' Your mission is to create your own superhero, give them a name, give them a power and create their look. Then you can help us save technology! But shhhhhh... don't tell anyone about your secret superhero mission!

We designed our superheroes using Scratch and based our designs on the Power Puff Girls. We made some edits before creating our superheroes.   

   

We are also making tutorials. We sent out an email asking people what tutorials they would like to see and what things they wanted to learn. So far we have made a green screening tutorial. We are going to make a 3D printing tutorial, and we are thinking of doing a Scratch, screen printing or robotics tutorial.

Click here to visit our website.

MakerEd Night

Christchurch Connected Educators’

MakerEd Event

Have you ever used Scratch before? Programmed a robot? Tinkered with circuits? Play with a beebot?  Well, if you have, you’re secretly a Maker. Being a Maker means that you tinker - you play with technology, crafts, anything really. If you can hack it, repurpose or create it, you’re a Maker.

On Wednesday, a group called the Christchurch Connected Educators ran a MakerEd Event for teachers. The MakerEd Event was brought into fruition to teach the teachers how to make regular kids into Maker kids. The 3 eLearning and MakerSpace Leaders at Selwyn House helped out Miss Fairhall - one of the teachers in 8CF and our Director of e-Learning and MakerSpace - with a BeeBots workshop. We helped show the teachers how to work the BeeBots, and also helped out with another teacher’s EV3 workshop.

One of the many parts of MakerEd is Scratch, an open-source block coding resource. Sign up and have a go here, or try one of the games we’ve made!