We have been working with AWS educate recently and its really cool. There are lots of things you can make it do weather its to help with tech or just have a conversation. you can make your narrator have different voices and have different accents. When you start typing your questions, you have to build your conversation to make it work. After that you just have to say hello, and ask away.
Hockey Tutorial Video
For this topic, I covered the different types of hockey shot you can make in a game. There are pretty much only three types. They are wrist shot, snap shot, and a slap shot. The wrist shot is the quickest one and allows a player to just get the puck to the net and that allows opportunities for a rebound goal. The snapshot is more focused on accuracy and can allow the shooter to pick corners with the puck if they have a little more time to shoot. NHL players like Auston Matthews, Nathan MacKinnon, Connor McDavid, Cale Makar, Alex Ovechkin, and so many others specialize in their ability to pick corners and get the puck past the goalie through space that most thought impossible. Lastly, the slap shot is the fastsest and most powerful of shots, and it is mainly used by a defenseman walking the blue line and wanting a powerful shot to get on net from so far out. I personally go with a simple wrist shot and try to keep it as low as possible, preferably below the wingers knee to give myself the best opportunity for a tip out front. I used iMovie to take some clips of myself shooting and put them together and do a voiceover explaining the three types of shots.
EarSketch
We are currently doing the hour of code and I have chosen to do EarSketch with Deandre and Anthony. What EarSketch is is essentially a website that allows you to make song with prerecorded beats and lyrics using code. There are lots fo tutorials to help you but since I did this last year, it wasn’t hard to relearn all the code. I made a song last year a unsung beats from code and lyrics from John Legend, and entered it into a scholarship contest. I came in 1000th out of around 1500 entries, but I still had a fun time learning. Hopefully this year my song will do better and I am also helping my group learn along the way
Sweet Home 3D
We have recently tried an application called Sweet Home 3D. What that is is basically a program that allows you to make a 3D diagram/model of a house. You can make walls, doors, separate rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, and even second and third floors. It was very easy to learn and everything is all in one spot which makes it easy to drag items and modify them to make you model look however you want. This site can be used by professionals and contractors who design houses for a living, and also simple enough for us to use in school. This is a simple overview of what it looks like to have a one story house model.