My Utopian City

Posted on June 7, 2021 by Jasmine

Tammy and Jasmine’s City

This city was designed by Tammy and Jasmine

Our Values:

Education: For education, there is a university in the centre of our city. We decided to make education a value in our city because we believe that it is an important part of developing into a knowledgeable citizen.

Nature: Nature is an important value in our city, as we support a clean and healthy environment. To represent this throughout our city there are scattered flowers and trees. There is also a small stream running through the park with a bridge going across it. This creates a beautiful and peaceful place for people to spend their free time.

Entertainment: We believe entertainment is a big part of what pulls a city together. In our city, there are many activities to do such as watching movies at the movie theatre, playing soccer or other sports at the sports field, using the track, camp at the campsite, and other activities inside the community centre.

Exercise: In our city, there is a soccer field and walking track to demonstrate a safe place to exercise. We believe exercise is important and should be included in an everyday life to keep active and healthy.

Accessibility: Our city focuses on accessibility because we think that is one of the most important things in creating a good city. To incorporate this value we added a grocery store, hospital and everything else surrounding the houses for easy access.

Important Colours:

Yellow: The colour yellow is shown a lot in our town because it represents happiness and energy. We believe a city that makes you happy and energetic is something that allows you to love where you live. A few things that are yellow in our city are the flowers, part of the grocery store, part of the movie theatre design and the community centre, as well as a few more structures.

Red: Red is a colour that shows strength, health, and passion. Multiple things in our city use the colour red such as the flowers and buildings like the hospital and the border of the community centre. Strength, health, and passion are important characteristics that make a city feel comforting and safe.

Blue: Blue represents intelligence as well as peace and relaxation. In our city, we used blue to create our university and movie theatre design. The colour blue is also shown in the park as there is a small stream to add more nature.

Green and Brown: Green and brown represent nature. Throughout our city the main colour you’ll see is green; we have lots of trees, grass and flowers surrounding our city as well as in our park. Brown is shown mostly in the ground/dirt/sand and roads throughout our city. It is also part of the trees and bits of a couple of buildings, as well as the bride overlapping the stream in the park.

Communication Reflection

For this project, I worked with a partner to come up with a Utopian City. Together, we assembled the values and expressive colours of our city. To do this project, we used a free note-taking app called GoodNotes. This app made it easy to present our detailed ideas and visions of our city through drawing it ourselves. My partner and I communicated with each other mainly through Snapchat and shared our opinions and thoughts on a Microsoft Word document. We provided creative ideas that supported each other’s values in life as well as suggesting changes for feedback. My responsibility was to use my iPad and Apple Pencil to create the drawing of our city. We were both able to work smoothly as partners to create a city that shares both our ideas and values. With the help of social media, we kept in contact even when we weren’t at school to talk in person about the project. Overall I’d say that my partner and I used our time efficiently. We never had trouble coming up with ideas or felt rushed to complete the project. We made our decisions by figuring out a consensus of our “needs” and “wants.” Because we both had so many ideas, we had to narrow them down to the ones we both agreed were the most valued; would make the town the best it could be. After figuring out the program we wanted to use, we came across a rather significant inconvenience; we weren’t able to share the drawing document. Although, after talking our options over, we decided to work on the other parts of the project at home (the Values and Important Colours sentences) and when we see each other in person at school, I would bring my Apple Pencil and iPad for both of us to draw our city together. In the meantime, while we were at home, I continued to draw our city but got feedback from my partner by sending them screenshots to analyze. Because of this strategy, we could continue to get our work done as a team and stay on track to complete the project in time. I am very satisfied with the final product of the Utopian City my partner and I created. By using our imagination and communications skills, we created and demonstrated all aspects and values of our city with detail and hard work. In the future, I could improve on my creative skills as most of our values were based on the ones mentioned in class or the examples in other student’s work. Although, I wouldn’t say that I am upset that we didn’t use more unique values as the ones we chose to incorporate strongly united with our beliefs and personal opinions.

My Digital Footprint

Posted on April 28, 2021 by Jasmine

Creating a Positive Digital Footprint

I used the website Piktochart to edit the infographic above. https://piktochart.com/

References:

https://mobile.twitter.com/bulliesout/status/1065885928357593089

http://www.kathleenamorris.com/2018/06/12/digital-footprints/

Personal/Social Competency Reflection

I know that my digital footprint can have both positive and negative consequences, including the fact that my teachers and parents can see what I post online and how you can spread awareness and connect with people. Since what I post on the internet can be seen by everyone, it can have an impact on my reputation. Posts also take on different meanings over time, so I might come to regret posting them in the first place. I deal with these things by always being aware of what I am posting and making sure it’s positive. Spreading awareness and helping others are two positive things that can be part of your digital footprint.

Some ways I work to build and maintain online relationships are staying in contact with people and supporting them through social media. For example, on different social media platforms, I can boost others’ confidence or help them out when needed. Whenever one of my friends posts something, I always react positively by liking their post, commenting, or texting them about it.

My online support is helpful to me because, especially now, during a pandemic, I am not able to see all my family and friends in person, but there are many online apps to use that allow me to keep in touch with people while following covid restrictions and staying safe.

Teaching Children About Digital Footprints and Online Reputations (With Student Poster)

What’s the World Around Town?

Posted on October 26, 2020 by Jasmine

My Map

Reflection

1. Was I able to identify how geography impacts the town / city with ease? How was I able to find how the physical geography impacted these areas?

Yes, I was easily able to find how geography impacted the town I chose to research. I was able to find how physical geography impacts the areas in Osoyoos as I recently travelled there with my family. During the trip I took pictures and learned a lot about the town’s characteristics, which made it easier to do this project.

2. How did the technology personally affect my learning? What were the pros and cons of using maphub.com? Be detailed in your response here.

Technology made it easy for me to learn about geography, how the economy works, and different ways to show my learning. While using maphub.com, I was easily able to create and explain the different places in the town I chose. A pro when using maphub.com is the variety of colours and symbols for the markers as it makes it easy to identify each place. Another pro is that there isn’t a limit to how long your description is for a marker. In addition, maphub.com makes it easy to find any location/area in Canada or anywhere in the world as you just have to search it up in the search tab and it will pop up. A con would be that you have to save your map every single time you leave the website. This might sound obvious but it was a bit frustrating as I am use to my work being saved automatically if I press the save button once.

3. Were you satisfied with the result of your design and solutions?

Yes, I am happy with how my map turned out and what I learned from this project.

4. How would you refine your assignment in the future?

In the future, I would probably shorten my discriptions so it just says the main points and isn’t so long to read. Another thing I would change would be how I explain the development areas and how they would affect the community.

About Me

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Jasmine

My Bio

Hi, my name is Jasmine. I am 14 years old and I do competitive gymnastics and play soccer. I have been doing gymnastics for nine-plus years and soccer since I was around five or six years old. Gymnastics has taught me how to overcome fear, how to make achievable short and long-term goals, and much more. I have a three year old dog and three guinea pigs. In the summer I like to spend time outside and travel with my family. One of my favourite subjects is Science. I find learning about biology quite interesting because I like learning about cells and how things work. Visual examples help me a lot when learning new concepts in any subject. A few other subjects I like are Art, Food Studies, and Social Studies. Some words that describe me are quiet, kind, and athletic.

My Favourite Website

https://spca.bc.ca/

I am interested in this website because I love animals and always want to see if there are any that my family can adopt and care for. I like this animal shelter in particular because SPCA stands for “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals”. This makes it different from some other animal shelters because they have strict requirements in order to adopt their animals. Some other websites just sell the animals for money and do not actually care about the animals and their future.

My Favourite Video

I don’t have a favourite video in particular and this isn’t a goal of mine, but I like to watch videos like this when I’m bored. This is a YouTuber who is a gymnast, and in this video, she is showing the new bar skill she learned to do, and the things she did to get it. I watch videos that are about getting new gymnastics skills because it inspires me to work hard and accomplish my own goals to get new skills.

My Favourite Image

This is a picture of my dog at Mayne Island. My family has a house at Mayne Island so whenever we can, we like to go there. I really enjoy going to Mayne Island for a vacation because I can bring my dog there. There is so much to do when I get there but a few of the things I always do is go swimming in the ocean with my sister and dog, walk along the beach, and hand-feed the deer who come into our yard. This photo is important to me because it represents something fun my family does at least twice a year.

My Favourite Quote

“If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan, but never the goal.” – Unknown author

I like this quote because to me it is saying that if your plan doesn’t work out the way you want it to, try it again a different way, and don’t give up.

References