Food at MOTEC

      

Since week 1 of Motec we have been learning how to cook delicious food such as  sushi, pizza, wedges, corn fritters, muffins, kebabs. We also made up our own recipes and then made them the following week.

The hard part of food technology is the clean up at the end and the best part is to scoff down your food once you get back to school.

Once we get to our cooking station we have to check that we have all our items. If we don't, the others get to start and we have to go and find the ingredients or we have to borrow some from the teacher.  Next we start getting our ingredients for our type of food, in this case its sushi. We had to get sushi rice and mix it up with sushi rice vinegar and sugar and table salt. After that we start making our divine meal.  Sadly we can't eat it on the bus and have to wait until we get back to school.

Our teacher also teaches us about hygiene, nutrition and how important it is to eat healthily, not just your McDonald's,which is very helpful to some people who need a wake up call from over eating that type of food.

 Personally I think there are no bad stations at Motec but this is the most fun and the yummiest. 

written by Jed

Nikky Nakky Noo

                  Since Week One of Motec, we have been doing a radio show  called Nikky Nikky Noo. 

First we had to learn about the copyright law in our booklets on the computer because if we stole any songs we would have to pay royalties for it with the price range around about $500 to $1000 - even for a Justin Bieber song.  

Next, we started thinking of the qualities of a good radio show.  Things such as good songs, commentary, quizzes and interviews. It was quite hard to get non copyrighted songs that are the same quality as the ones on the top 10 on MTV but after a while we managed to get some songs that are up to standard.

After preparing the list of songs we're going to do, we started doing our parts in the radio show like being the host or doing the quizzes  and the other jobs like music, intro/outro, etc.

Next Zak and Max edited everything and put it together before we shared it with our teacher on Google Apps. She published it on the Parkland School  website with all the other classes radio shows.

If you want to listen go and click this link--Mapua Radio Show 
written by Jed 

MoTEC

Every Thursday at 10:20 am, Rooms 11, 12 and 13 go to MoTEC (Motueka Technology Education Centre). We get to go out to morning tea earlier than everybody else. But do you know what happens once we are off the bus? If not, read on!

We all sit down in a big hall and the MoTEC teachers tell us about what is going to happen. Then we go in our groups to our workrooms.

Sophie (centre) and Selena on the bus.

While the Year 8 students go to the hard materials, the Year 7 students get into groups of about 12 people. Last week, one of the groups made pizza. Another group did some paper work. The third group were bending plastic to make iPod and cellphone stands. My group are in the computer room recording interviews with a partner on Garageband (a computer programme) We get to use microphones of all shapes and sizes. It is very new and exciting.

Students at work in the Computer Suite.

One time, two students (Max and Zak) were working together and their voices went all
high - pitched when they put their Garageband recording on replay! Everybody giggled.

Before we leave, everybody thanks their teacher, and we walk in single file to the bus. We talk about our day at MoTEC on the way back to school, and we all feel very happy and excited about going again next week.

I wonder what will happen next Thursday at MoTEC?

By Georgina