Month: June 2016

Hello! I’m returning with another SLC post! Because apparentally we need two. So, anyways, in this post I’ll be talking about:

One Thing I Am Proud Of

One Thing I Am Not Proud Of

My Reflection On My Work

Let’s do this.

I am most proud of:

My Shakespeare Play. Pretty much, if you didn’t hear about it from this post, what we had to do was take a scene or two from the play “The Tragedy Of Julius Ceasar” and then make it modern. We chose the scene where Brutus kills himself and then Antony and his men come along and stop the battle because they realized that the battle is causing too much blood shed and all that. It’s a really emotional part of the play, as it’s the final act.

So we made it modern. We made all of the characters rivalling gang members, and then made Brutus, who we named Bruce, jump off a building. It was really well done, and we had all of our lines memorized. But our actual Preformance was done first thing Monday morning as Sam hadn’t been there on the Friday. It was hard because we had limited space and Spencer forgot what to do. It would have been much easier to just have someone sub in as Sam on Friday when we were ready.

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I’m really proud of this because we worked hard on it, and I think if we had done the Preformance on the Friday it would have been one of the best ones there.

I am least proud of:

My science project. So, for this science project, we had to make a project that told the story of how Raven brought the light. Sounds easy enough, right?

Yeah. It was one of those moments. I had a nice plan to do a lamp shade with all the aspects of how Raven brought the light. It would have been really cool. Then we were informed that our project had to include:

• colour
• opacity
• translucency
• Transparency
• A prism
• a cylinder
• reflection
• refraction
• something about Ibn-al-haythem

Yay. That made my job a lot harder now. The final product of Thai wasn’t very good. I didn’t even take a picture I was so ashamed. It was pretty much a sad little tissue box painted black, with a glasses lense in one end with the silhouette of a raven, and then a few tinfoil stars. Not impressive one bit. I didn’t even have the written out description that we were supposed to have.

If I were doing that now, I probably would have prepared a bit better and maybe put a LOT more effort into it.

Reflection on my work

I think this year my work has been quite good. I could have worked a bit harder on a few things, like my worlview EE and my Science project. I think that looking into the future, maybe working a bit harder on assignments I didn’t want to do and handing my work in on time would be smart. I’m going to really try and work on that next year.

So, to sum it all up, this year has been a great year for me. I’m proud of most of my work, some not so much, and I’m going to try and work on doing my work better in the future by working on it more.

So that’s all folks! Thanks for reading this, and if I’m presenting this, thanks for being here. As always

Read ya later

Ruby

Blue Sky Projects. Pretty much, a project where you can do and make anything you want.

I was so excited to do this one. I had sticky notes all over my wall for ideas, and billions more in my head. Maybe something around Harry Potter? Maybe a stop motion? Maybe both! I was so pumped. And then…. The news came.

It had to be around a problem. My world crumbled. There went literally ALL OF MY IDEAS! I had to think of something completly new!

So I started to think of problems. I handed in my first one, which was about making a video about stereotypes. That was denied because it was a research project, not a design project. Denied

Then I decided to do a video explaining Tae Kwon Do. But that already existed. Denied.

Maybe a DIY SnapBack tutorial? Nope, not a big enough problem. Denied.

Come on, there has to be something. A video explaining how maybe some science fiction could be real? Making an iPad case? A quiz app? A new type of pop? NOTHING WORKED!

And then, it came to me. A nozzle to put on milk jugs to stop people drinking out of the carton. I was a genius! IT WAS FINALLY APPROVED!

But, here’s the downside. I had TWO WEEKS to pull it together! So, myself, being the procrastination queen, did the entire thing the night before. Okay, not the entire thing. But I made the video the night before.

That’s my project. It’s a nozzle made out of plastic and a bite valve [from a camel pac] which keeps milk fresh and you can drink out of the jug without getting a cup or being unhygienic. I really enjoyed doing this, and I look forward to next year, where we’ll be doing HARRY POTTER THEME

Well, that’s all folks!

Read ya later,

Ruby

iBooks. You’ve probably read one at one point or another, unless you live under a rock

But they are really cool. And, as you know from My last post, we’re doing a unit on relegions. To refresh, we’ve been studying them, and we’ve been put in groups to study two relegions. A Western [which should be Eastern] Religion, and a New World Relegion. So, I was [stuck] partnered with Adam and Calum. We studied Confucianism and LDS, and I found out a lot about it.

Then we had to make an iBook on relegions as a class

Yeah. My world exploded. How do you even make an iBook? What? What!

Awkward Wat lady appeared. Anyways, we had to write an iBook. The first thing was all about roles. Who would do what, because we couldn’t all work on one thing at once.

There were writers, who wrote the physical text, videographers who worked on the videos to go in, the poets who worked on the poetry to go in the book, the illustrators who worked on all the drawings and edits, the widgeters who made the widgets, and the graphic designers who pulled the entire book together.

I personally was an illustrator. Along with Ryan Dent and James Seed. We did some pretty damn good drawings. Dent and Seed worked more on the main drawings, where as I made the pages. But I did this pretty damn good drawing:

Yeah, I’m proud of that. We did many illustrations, and I made pages. It was good. I don’t have many complaints for this one, besides Seed taking an entire class to draw one, non detailed drawing. We was probably gaming. But yeah!

That really all for this post

Read Ya Later,

Ruby

The Renaissanse, meaning rebirth. That’s our newest unit. It’s actually quite entertaining. For history, that is. The main, driving question for this unit was “How did the Renaissance affect our western worldview?”. We had to answer this in a visual, and a paragraph explaining said visual. But first, we had to research a Thinker, an Artist, and a Scientist or Mathematian. So, I chose:

Lovato Lovati. Mainly because his name sounds like Demi Lovato. But he did some cool things. He invented the barometer. Pretty cool.

Torricelli. Okay this guy also has a cool name. It sounds like some sort of pasta, which is cool. He was a scientist, and invented Torricelli’s law. It’s long and complicated, so I won’t explain it.

Raphael. The artist, not the ninja turtle. He painted some cool things, nothing about turtles, I found to my dissapointment.

So, once we had researched those guys, we had to answer the big question. I made a poster explaining how the Renaissanse influence our western worldview. It looks like this:

Lets do a quick run down of this. So pretty much it’s someone embracing all of the three major things that came out of the Renaissance. Thinkers, Artists and Scientists. But, that’s not all. If you look in the background, you’ll notice that the triangles go from grey to blue, showing that the Renaissanse really brightened up our worldview.

That was a lot of symbolism. And seriousness. I don’t like it.

Aaand the gif isn’t loading. Great. Well, as always…

Read ya later

Ruby