STEM Week Waikowhai Student Led Toolkits

 Waikowhai Student Led Toolkits

Kia orana everyone. For this post I will be talking about how we had student led toolkits in our own school! Our school did this for STEM week which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. This toolkit was pretty much the same as the one in Owairaka School, we had 3 sessions, lots of choices but the middle school was joining us. The people who went to the toolkit in Owairaka school but didn't present had to present for this toolkit. The presenters could choose whether they wanted to use the toolkit from the smackdown or make a new slideshow for one of the toolkit they went to. My friend Ayana and me were presenting Book Creator!

The first toolkit I went to was Piskel, Piskel is an website to make pixel art, you can also animate your pixel art! Piskel was in the room Haumia. The presenters for this toolkit was Zara and Josie. They told us everything about Piskel like how to use the colours and pen. They also tought us a hack to animating your pixel art! I made 2 pixel art, one was a moving skeleton mouth and a dancing skeleton. This was a fun toolkit and my second favourite!

The second toolkit we were presenting Book Creator. This toolkit was in the hall. Book creator is an website you can use to make books or comics! We explained what book creator was and how to use it. It was hard trying to get everyone to sign in becuase some people had problems loading the website. After explaining how to use Book Creator the students had 15 minutes to make their own book, our only rule was no violence. It was fun to present but we were nervous!

Third toolkit we had to present again. This time it went better then last time because we knew what to say this time and not many people had problems! Some people said they loved our toolkit and we also did some sharing time at the end if people wanted to share. Not many people needed help this time and even a teacher was surprised with this website!

This was a fun day and I would like to do it again I also think they should do this every term so we can learn lots of different fun websites, but the presenters have to be different each time so everyone gets a chance. Blog you later!