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Rise of the Franken-Stuffies! 🧟‍♀️

Rise of the Franken-Stuffies! That was the name of the project that PLP 9 has been working on for the past few weeks. In my opinion this was one of the most fun project that we have ever done. Our driving question for this project was, ‘How can we as writers, make our message clear…

Destination Imagination 2024!🚀

Communication, Confidence, Teamwork, and Creativity. Those are just some of the skills that I could use some practice in. I learned this during the long and grueling process of a little thing called Destination Imagination, or DI. Since December, the entirety of PLP 8, 9, and 10 has been sorted into teams to compete against…

You’re Next… 😱

Dark, Mysterious, Creepy. Those are the emotions that you typically feel when watching a thriller video, and those are the emotions that PLP 9 was trying to make our audience feel when creating our own thriller video. In one of my previous posts, I talked about how PLP 9 was running a remake of a…

Running a Remake! 🎥

Action! In class, we watched a short horror film called “Run”, and had to remake our own versions of it in groups. We were trying to get it as close to the original as possible, which includes shots, angles, timing, sound, etc. Original Video: My group’s first try went pretty well. Our sounds matched the…

Movie Making in School! 📸

“Action!” I heard that word too many times to count throughout this project. Few minutes of acting and filming turned into hours of editing. “How might I use moving images to tell a story?” That is our driving question that we were trying to answer for Maker. The assignment was for us to make 4…

My Summer Learning of 2023 ☀️🏝️

Now that I am going into grade 9 of PLP, I need to prepare. To help me do that, I was assigned summer learning to get me ready for this coming school year. I was told to create a goal keeper on book creator. My teachers provided me a book to download and read to…

Esther’s Brain Doodles 🤪

Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog post! Over the last few weeks in Maker PLP, we have been working on making digital art on our iPads using sketches pro. And to show off our work, instead of writing a blog post about it, we made it into a book to publish using book…

Winter Exhibition Reflection ☃️

Winter Exhibition Reflection ‘What did James Cameron’s fantasy world of Avatar teach us about the real world?’ Well, that question wasn’t one that could be answered in a simple way. Everyone thought that there were way more than one answer to the driving question, but they chose one them that they thought Avatar taught us…

Making Interesting Images 🌌

Images’ Usefulness How might I use the still image to create and communicate through technology? Well, I think that there are several ways to create and communicate using still images. We can communicate to others by using emojis. We use emojis all the time to express what we’re feeling. When we find something funny we…

Geek-Out Reflection 🤓

Process The process of blogging my previous post was not as hard as I thought it would be. The first thing that I did was brainstorm. I rounded up all the facts that I knew about K-Pop and split them up. One section was about the why I loved K-Pop, another section was on how…