Are you engaged in medieval warfare? Are you sieging a castle but you just can’t knock those darn walls down? Well, have I got the program for you! It’s called Destination Imagination! DI is a worldwide event in which unsuspecting children compete to see which group can come up with the most innovative solution. Every Read More…
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To The Moaning And The Groaning Of The Bells
“Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young/In a world of magnets and miracles/Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary/The ringing of the division bell had begun”-Pink Floyd, 1994, High Hopes It almost the holiday season! The happiest time of the year where nothing ever goes wrong and nothing scary ever Read More…
Taking My Dad To Work
Reading the future. Sounds pretty cool, right? Also sounds like something a wizard would do! Well, did you know that there is an actual viable career in which you do that? A few days ago was Take Your Kids To Work Day, so I went to Environment And Climate Change Canada where my dad works Read More…
Run(ning Away From Monsters)!
Hi! Recently in Maker, we were given the opportunity to create a remake of the short film “Run!” Here’s the original: The original follows a jogger on a trail, who is being chased by a monster. The original uses a variety of sounds and angles to portray emotions and create suspense. To remake this film Read More…
Just Call Me Steven Spielberg 🎥
Recently, PLP 9 went on a field school to the Rocky Mountains. It was amazing! Seeing all the nature and wildlife, it inspired me to go back to school to answer our driving question of “How might I use the moving image to tell a story.” Silent Film This film was filmed at Read More…
A Nice Book To Read
Hello! I made a book about a project in Maker about Sketch Pro. We learned lots of things about sketching on the iPad, like learning how to use stencils or using 3d shapes. It was really fun and interesting to make the book. It’s a pretty short book, not too long of a read. I Read More…
PLP Winter Exhibition: Why So Blue :(
The Winter Exhibition Twice every year, we have an exhibition were we get to showcase our learning. At exhibitions, we have a different theme; this year it was Avatar. The driving question was “What does James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ reveal about our own society?” Here is the process of our project and the winter exhibition. The Read More…
My Photo Journey
In the latest Maker mini project, we learned how to take photos with our IPads and learned about different techniques to make them better. After that, we had to put them into a Keynote that we put into a blog post. Mine is here: Now, we have to decide what the 3 most useful skills Read More…
Am I a PLP learner?
To satisfy the PLP teachers, we must make a post on blogs definitively PROVING that we are PLP learners. I’m not sure what they will do if the deem us not PLP learners, since we are currently in the program with the iPads, Apple Pencils, and cases that they wanted us to buy. In this post, Read More…