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Bluesky 2019

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Bluesky 2019

Hello for the very last time.

This is now my 3rd exhibition since I missed the Winter one. However the other two (Bluesky 2018, Winter Exhibition 2017) I’d gone to hadn’t exactly gone well. This year I was determined to make my project better.

We’ve been working on this for about a month.

At the start I was completely out of ideas. But then I was in the middle of a soccer game and I got my toes stepped on. And boom.

I was going to make an insert for my cleats to protect my toes.

Launch cycle:

With my idea approved from the start, all I had to do was get my prototypes ready and look for materials.

While thinking about what to do for my materials I talked to my teacher who happened to also be a FIFA referee to discuss what would be legal and illegal. She said that as long as the ref couldn’t see what was inside the cleat or it wasn’t to hurt anybody else it was completely legal.

 

Highlighting and fixing:

The problem about my insert is it would crowd the foot to much so I made a drawing of a cleat that is wider at the tip to fit the insert better.

My presentation:

My teacher made us a template for Keynote that would let us show how we went through our process to get our prototypes.

The exhibition:

On our second last day of school, we had our PLP wide spring exhibition.

I think it went pretty well. I know lots of people who came by have kids who play soccer and have seen many times that their kids get their toes stepped on.

It was a really simple final prototype, and super cost-effective. It was a sponge with tape and cardboard cut into the shape of my foot.

 

Well, that’s it. See ya.

TPOL Time!! Going to Grade 10

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TPOL Time!! Going to Grade 10

Hello for the second last time this year.

This is now my second TPOL or Transitional Presentation of Learning.

I’m going to start off by saying that this year has not been my best. And I have learned from that. School is only going to get more challenging from now. I’ve been struggling pretty much the whole year and it hasn’t been until the third and last term that I have stepped up.

Highlights:

Humanities:

Personally I think my best projects for Humanities this year were my last two. WW1 and the Heritage minutes.

http://www.blog44.ca/lucianos/2019/06/19/ww1-billy-bishop/

http://www.blog44.ca/lucianos/2019/05/09/les-voyageurs-heritage-minutes/

Over the year in Maker and Humanities we’ve been heavily focusing on video so I feel my video making skills, from editing to filming have greatly improved. At the start of the year I was very uninterested in video making. As well as I like being the actor and not the filter or editor. I feel it’s what I’m best at, presenting/acting. So I tried to use that to my advantage for the year like when in groups choosing to be the actor as my main responsibility.

Maker:

Although it was a very rough start with maker, I think I’m finishing pretty strong. It took me awhile to find interest in Maker and I just kept snowballing. So I eventually had to sit down and grind out a few videos and blog posts to catch up. After that I’ve kept on top of things. I think I did pretty well in D.I. I could’ve improved if I would’ve focused a bit more at the start of the Unit but we ended up performing well.

https://www.blog44.ca/lucianos/2019/04/15/4-dis-4-podiums/

Areas for Improvement:

PGP:

PGP has been interesting. I going to be honest, I was extremely skeptical about it even a few months in. The 7 habits and goal setting especially I found not very helpful and boring. And productivity was not to far. But I started using Things more and more to get task done it’s helped, mostly because it gives a satisfaction that I finished a task every time that I check off on that little blue checkmark. I’ve doing goal setting since grade 7 and it really pisses me off for lack of a better way of saying it. No matter how or who assigns it to me. If I have a goal I truly want to accomplish I have no need of writing it down. So I could work on being more open-minded about it but we’ll see.

Scimatics:

I used really like math and science but this year, not gonna lie it’s been pretty boring and that has led to me not really wanting to do it. I put it into areas of improvement.

http://www.blog44.ca/lucianos/2019/04/01/a-lego-house-valuation-with-like-terms/

This year I will say has been fun. We all knew each other better, so socially it’s been great but academically I’ll just leave it a “meh”. So that’s my TPOL.

Well that’s it. See you soon.

WW1 — Billy Bishop

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WW1 — Billy Bishop

Hello. This is my last grade 9 humanities post. And it’s about WW1. Let’s get it.

For the past month and a bit we’ve been studying WW1.

Learning about WW1:

Like a lot of people know, the event that really started the war was when a Serbian Extremist killed the Archduke of the Austri0-Hungarian Empire, Franz Fernidand. Many other things led up to the war but when the Archduke got killed, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Russia came to Serbia’s aid, Germany was allied to Austria-Hungary and so it became a tangled and complicated war that would spread out across the world.

For a better explanation check out the video below.

A few of the boys and I made a short video about what happened in WW1 if it were a bar fight. It isn’t super clear but it helped us understand the conflict a bit better.

We’ve also watched plenty of videos from the YouTube channel “The Great War”. My teacher really seems to like the guy in it Indie Nidel.

The project:

We each had to create a video about a certain aspect of the war through a Canadian Perspective.

Other people who chose to do a stop motion were Kyle, Taylor, and Sam.

My video:

I decided to make a stopmotion, partly because I’d never done one and it looks cool and also I thought it would be the best way to show the information and story I was trying to bring to light.

Screenplay:

My screenplay was essentially my script. And it was almost the first screenplay I’ve written by myself for this year.

It served mostly as my script because I only had voiceovers in my video.

Cove Cliff visit:

As part of the end of the project we went to Cove Cliff to show our videos to the Grade 6 and 7s. My little brother is that age so I was expecting them to Behave similarly to him. Since the start of the project we had to focus on making our videos for a younger age. I presented to three groups. The first group was 2 boys who were really engaged but I could tell they were losing interest when I gave them questions to answer. I then went to a group of 8 girls. Honestly I felt very intimated in front of them. And my last group was a group of boys who were really interested in all the videos in they watched. However I could tell they were starting to lose interest. So talking to them about what they like to do outside of school worked a lot better.

Reflection:

I really enjoyed learning how to make the stop motion, it was a lot easier than I thought. I’d been told it was very time-consuming but it wasn’t so bad. I’d say I already knew a fair bit about the war but this unit made us think about it differently and in more depth.

Well that about wraps it up for this year.

See ya.

If I could send one thing back to myself at the start of the year.

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If I could send one thing back to myself at the start of the year.

Hello again. This time we’re talking about PGP A.K.A. Personal Growth Plan.

We were introduced this year to a new class, extracurricular yet mandatory. It was made to help us out after lots our problems last year were linked to procrastination.

It is once every month and a half or so that we have a meeting for it. We get assigned a project to do each month.

However this post is mostly about my Time Machine, our last PGP project of the year. The Time Machine was if you could send one thing to your formal self (your formal self at the start of the year) to help them out through the year.

I decided to write a book about

Goal Setting:

Pour goal setting part, we had to read the book below, What do you really want? Honestly I found it very boring and not very helpful.

It kind of wants you to right down your goals but for me  if I really want to accomplish something I don’t need to right it down.

Productivity:

Personally, I may have taken the most out of this part. At the start of the year I was falling behind. But then we got to the productivity. Initially I thought “what’s the point”. I already had TeamSnap to tell me what’s going on after school, I don’t need anything else.

But then I started using Things and putting more assignments in there. And I eventually caught up. It gives me satisfaction every time I check off an assignment.

7 Habits:

Our third project of the year was the 7 Habits. It explains 7 habits of teens that would be successful if they used them. The book breaks up the 7 Habits into 4 parts. The Set-Up, Private Victory, Public Victory, and Sharpen The Saw.

I liked the Sharpen The Saw part the most because it tells you that to be successful and to want to be successful you also have to rest once in awhile or do something you like. Beneath I put my creative reflections in which Part 4 is Sharpen the Saw. For me Sharpening the Saw is Traveling, Hockey, Soccer, Golf, friends and reading.

Well that’s it. See you soon.

Luciano

 

Coming soon:

WW1

Bluesky

TPOLs