As part of Mr. Peterson’s metal 10/11 class I have started working on two dice. So far I have finished drilling and cleaning up the holes for the numbers on each of the dice pieces. I used critical thinking when measuring the two inch pieces as well as the location of the holes, marking the place with a center punch to ensure the measurements were correct. I was successful for the most part in this goal, but I should have spent more time making sure the measurements were accurate before I started drilling holes instead of just saying “close enough” and moving on. What went well was drilling the holes themselves, I am proud of how drilling the holes went. While I continue the dice project I will try my best to be precise and spend more time measuring and marking before I make cuts and/or welds.
I chose this “I can” statement because I follow criteria to the best of my abilities. For one of the first sketchbook projects I did, the first drawings I needed to complete were five separate drawings of my hand in different positions. The first four could be two to a page and drawn as just an outline and some simple details, while the fifth had to cover a full page and be complete with details and shading. I followed these instructions but contributed to them by putting my all into all five drawings when it came to the details and shading. Not only did this look better than doing a simple outline and a few small details, it also helped me better my understanding of shading. In addition, it acted as a somewhat trial-and-error stage, so I didn’t need to erase much when working on the fifth and final hand.
This project showcases art skills and creativity. This project fills out the “communication” core competency. I chose to write my reflection about this project because I found it more of a fun project, since I got to draw and use my creativity. I learned about how everyone pitched in with the war effort with their different skills from gardening to flying fighter planes.
Core Competency Reflection
I can understand and share information about a topic of interest in a clear, organized way. I chose this statement because my poster conveys my information in a clear and organized way with drawn pictures and a simple written statement. I think about what I am going to convey and to whom I will convey it to. I chose this statement because I had to choose who I was conveying my war message to, before making the poster for it. I can show a sense of accomplishment and joy. I take pride in my work and myself. I chose this statement because I was happy in how the poster turned out. I can persevere over time to develop my ideas, and I expect setbacks and failure, but use that to develop my ideas. I chose this statement because I faced some setbacks in the design process of the poster when trying to figure out what would convey my message the best, while being organized and appealing. I can reflect on my thinking. I chose this statement to use as my goal moving forward because I don’t usually reflect on my thinking in my day to day, as I only reflect when I need to for edublogs. I will work towards achieving this goal by doing my work right when it’s assigned to give myself more time to reflect on it when it’s finished.
This unit helped me learn about the literary devices, irony, satire and allusion by showing me how they’re used everyday. In this unit, we learned how The Simpsons uses these literary devices to create a humorous and light show, from heavy or dark topics. I expressed my ideas and used concrete evidence, by explaining the literary devices used in the show and giving an example of that device in a structured paragraph. An example of this is how I talked about the show using irony. This, especially in the opening scene in how it gives a angelic and heaven like feel, when the opposite topics are present in the show. I improved clarity and refined my text by keeping my thoughts concise, creating well organized paragraphs, and choosing quality over quantity as best as I could.
Core Competency Reflection
I can describe how satire, irony and/or allusion relates to Scooby-Doo. In The Simpsons we hear a character say “I would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for you meddling kids”, which is an allusion to a line said in the popular TV show, Scooby-Doo.
An example of where I built upon someone else’s ideas is when I use notes taken in class, about a particular idea or literary device and using those to expand on in my own words. I did this when explaining the “heaven and angelic” like opening to the show, elaborating on the irony of it.
I respectfully advocate for my needs by asking fellow classmates for notes if I didn’t quite get all of them down, and asking the teacher for help when I need it. I usually try my best to figure out what I need to do on my own, then double checking with the teacher, to see if I need to tweak my explanations or writing in any way.
In math this year we had games days on most Friday’s. I played Uno; although I wasn’t very good at it to start. I didn’t even know the rules of the game, as I had only ever played once or twice prior, never really understanding what to do. I had no strategy to begin with; I put down random cards in hopes it would be within the rules. When I started understanding what the rules and objectives were, I used critical thinking and found a strategy that worked to win almost every game. I would play “normally” for awhile then check how many cards the other players had, if they had a lot I would use as many non-important cards as I could (regular numbers), then start taking cards from the deck when it was my turn. I had other cards but I kept them to bluff my way through and make it seem like I was the one losing, having to pick up so many cards. When they had fewer cards I would bring out the cards I had saved, and start putting those down. Cards like “+4″,”+2” and “skip turn” were the best. I would do this just as they were beginning to be confident in themselves, as they would have three or less cards left.
My group became more of a partnership when it came to creating the Minecraft world. My group member and I worked on the Minecraft world pretty efficiently, mainly via video calls outside of school. We faced some difficulties along the way, like finding time when our schedules lined up while working outside of school. In the end we turned in the finished product on time, with all the necessary parts.
2. Were the behaviors of any of your team members particularly valuable or detrimental to the team?
Aishvihn’s behavior was very valuable. She had used Minecraft more in the past resulting in us working more efficiently, as she knew her way around the game. She had great ideas and valuable insight on what we should build and how we should build it. She had a great understanding of the task at hand and what we needed to do to accomplish that task in the time given. We had gotten one of the harder energy sources to show, especially through a game (geothermal energy); But we found a way to represent that by building a volcano. As it was the best visually appealing and eye catching way to show the potential and kinetic energy and explain how it gets transferred and transformed to be used as power to the building and house. Aishvihn made great use of the signs that needed to be put up, by thoroughly explaining what was happening at each step.
3. What did you learn about working in a group from this project that you will carry into your next group experience?
Working in a group has taught me that it’s important to have patience. Things rarely go according to plan in regular projects, and working in a group brings more responsibilities and more things that could go wrong along with it. It’s also important to have patience with schedules, as everyone has different obligations outside of school. I will carry on that it’s very important to use time wisely and have patience while working in a group, as schedules differ from person to person. Meaning it’s important to get as much done when the schedules line up and using the time when they don’t, to plan ahead.
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.
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/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
Our city is about creating an accessible and entertaining place, where people also feel safe and at home. To design our city we used a simple notes app with a drawing feature, we felt it would make our city look nicer since we could add lots of detail and different colours. To communicate throughout the process we used Snapchat, alongside using our limited class time to plan who would do what and when. We listened to each others ideas by sharing them when we had class time and showing each other what we’ve done through Snapchat while at home. My responsibilities were writing the values and colour meanings. We both edited and gave ideas to each other. I think we worked pretty efficiently together, especially when planning and getting everything done on time. We made decisions by asking each other what we liked or letting each other edit and make improvements. We faced a problem with the actual designing of the city part because I couldn’t use the same app we used for drawing, meaning I couldn’t take part in drawing. We solved this by Jasmine being assigned to drawing and me assigned to the main writing piece. We both contributed in each others parts by stating our ideas and editing till we both liked each others final product. I liked the final product and I don’t think I would do anything different if I were to do it again.
I wrote this article, for my ‘positive digital footprint’ project. I created my design on the edublog itself since it would make the most sense for what I was doing. I didn’t use references since I have heard what i wrote before and also from personal experience, I did put the links for the pictures underneath the pictures themselves.
Knowing how to create and maintain a positive digital footprint is important, not just for the present time but for later in life too. Your digital footprint follows you throughout your life and can’t be deleted: well not easily at least, your posts and searches on the internet are there forever even if you take it down and/or delete the account.
People can take screenshots, pictures and save your posts usually without your knowledge. Oh, remember those ‘terms and conditions’ you ignored and accepted when creating an account for your favourite social app. Yeah those terms and conditions usually state something about using or storing your information to make your ‘social media experience better’ ; example: do you ever wonder why the adds you get seem so personal and targeted? Sometimes your apps keep the information on what you search and view on their app and recommend similar posts and searches from what you’ve looked at.
Thinking before you post is always a good thing. The poster, as shown above is a good mental checklist to use before you decide to post or share anything online.
Along with being careful with what you post you should also be careful when it comes to passwords and logins. Most people use the same password for multiple accounts; while this might be convenient it’s not too safe when it comes to cyber security. It’s best to have good, strong passwords so it’s harder for hackers or viruses to get though to your accounts and posting unwanted pictures or stealing data from more important accounts like your bank account.
Personal/social Competency Reflections
Some short/long term goals with my digital spaces include: keeping my digital footprint as small as I can and post as little as I can if possible, my plan to achieve them is, to think if I really have a need to post what I’m thinking of posting and to keep a lot to myself when it comes to my life; there’s really no need to post about my life since it could come back to me later in life.
Some of my preferred strategies for maintaining a healthy, balanced online presence are: using social media apps like Instagram/Snapchat appropriately and when sending things to people, whether it’s pictures or text; I keep in mind that it could be shared with others; even if what you send isn’t necessarily incriminating it’s still a good thing to keep in mind. Another way of maintaining a healthy, balanced online presence is, by keeping my presence relatively small, along with keeping my accounts private and using strong passwords.
Some of the ways I work to build and maintain online relationships are, by using social media apps like Instagram and Snapchat to contact friends. With Covid-19 most friends you can’t see in person especially if they go to another school since that’s really the most we see our friends now. So by using these apps to keep in contact with friends I can’t see face to face i can maintain my relationships with them even if it’s through a screen for now.
A. How was the ease of access in building your flip book, despite this being the free and limited version of the software? Making the flip book was easy but a little frustrating sometimes.
B. Were you able to apply the skills you learned in the planning stages appropriately to a digital environment? yes
C. What were the sources you researched that made this an “authentic make-believe” American Revolution flipbook?
D. Is there other software online that could have done the job better? Did you use another software instead? Explain. No.
Hi my name is Tammy I’m in ninth grade, I play ringette and love to spend time with my friends, dog and camp with my family. I like ringette because its a fun sport to keep me busy and meet new people. One thing I want to get better in this year is having better time management. I usually express myself by just talking, people that know me know I talk A lot. I learn best with in class notes and demonstrations or pictures to go with them. One of best courses is language arts. Even though it’s not my favourite thing to do, I still think I’m more skilled at writing, reading and speaking than other subjects like math. Math on the other hand is one of my stretch subjects, but onceI ask a few questions its pretty easy from there.
I chose this link because I volunteer for the SPCA camps every summer. I do this because I can be with kids and animals and a sometimes friends that do that also volunteer. It’s a way to keep busy and have fun every summer, except summer 2020 for obvious reasons.
My favourite video
I don’t have a favourite video but i do have a goal. My goal for this year is to get better at ringette since it’s only my second year playing the sport.
My favourite image
this is a picture I took of my dog while in the car on the way to a park. It’s one of my favourites because I love spending time with my dog and especially going to the park with him because he loves being outside. I also like to spend time outside in parks or camping with my family.
My favourite quote
”Your dream doesn’t have an expiration date. take a deep breath and try again.” -KT Witten. I don’t exactly have a favourite quote but this is a good one because even if you want to give up or think something is impossible it reminds you that you can do anything, anytime as long as you try, and put in the effort.
