Hello and welcome back to my blog! Today I will be yapping in your ears about a recent maker project everyone has been working on; the “Changemakers” project! This project is different from any other we have seen before, since the driving question is up to you to create! That’s right, the driving question isn’t actually being made by the teachers, since when the end of the year nears, they slack off and don’t try just as hard. (I’m joking)

We started off this project by first, talking about the trip to Disneyworld. While this is the most interesting part, I’m going to skip over the entire thing because I didn’t go to Disneyworld and it wouldn’t make sense if I talked about a trip I didn’t even go on, so I’ll just talk about the replacement trip we were given; Capilano suspension bridge. That’s right, the people that didn’t go to Disneyworld still had to do work, so it was compensated for by sending us to some bridge in the forest. Which I’m totally good with by the way, hell I probably prefer it, going to magic world in Florida is not particularly somewhere I ever want to be.
We were instructed to interview people and make a video. Where’s my video? That’s a work in progress, but the point is that we were sent off like a herd of sheep to go graze in the grass, or find people to interview.

After filming ourselves interviewing people, alongside some pictures of the views; we were instructed to create a video. Like I said, it’s a work in progress; for me at least but everyone else’s videos looked great. 10/10 I thought they were so awesome sauce.

The final thing we were told to do for this project was to present our work! Shout out to the world “this is my work and it’s super cool and you should look at it”!!!! The only way to do this was by doing a film festival where all the parents that paid for these trips could see what their lovely children got out of the experience, and be very proud of them. We were all put in groups based off of our video themes, and we had to make a compilation of our videos; alongside this we needed to bring decorations and snacks (which isn’t a super big deal but I’ll bring it up anyway). We gracefully presented, and that was that.

Now, for what I would change or keep; I thought that this project went pretty well. I mean, I didn’t go on the weeklong trip so it was a pretty tiny project for me, but for everyone else I could see why it’s a bigger deal. I can’t really say much on what I would change about the project itself because I wasn’t really included in the bigger chunk of it, but I can’t say what I would change about my work.

I would change the fact that I never worked on my video when I was supposed to and now I have an unfinished video sitting in my files. Am I going to finish it? I mean, I’ll try to; I don’t know why these PLP videos have suddenly become my worst enemy, but they are… AND I HATE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay thanks for checking out my blog again bye

Hello, and welcome back to my blog 4x! Today, I will be talking briefly about a recent project we in PLP 10 preformed, a satirical radio play taking place in post-WWII. You may think it’s more WWII related since it’s in the projects driving question (which I will get to in a bit) but, not really.
“A satirical radio play? Taking place in the 1940s? Well, this sounds similar!” Yes, it’s true, the plays storyline takes much inspiration from the movie “Pleasantville”, which aside from one being a show and the other being a radio play, they’re pretty much the same thing. Before I get too off topic, let us get into how exactly this project came to be.

I’m pretty sure that my humanities teacher loves history. I mean, she’s a history teacher so I was kind of expecting her to be, but I digress. We were instructed to take notes while watching a documentary on post-WWII Canadian events, and then think up of ways to incorporate little references to it in our play; alongside considering the driving question:

How do we use a satirical radio play to communicate the shifts in Canadian society following WWII?

I didn’t take any notes, but I do happen to recall a few key events such as Newfoundland joining Canada and stuff. After this, we were all put into groups. People directing the play, people doing sound effects, people who have roles in the play and then people doing advertisements. I was a lucky duck and got to do an advertisements on Tv dinners. You know, those things that people used to buy in the 1950s all the way up until the 2000s when people realized they were horrible for you (who could’ve known, right?). This task was simple enough, at least for me. I whipped up a script and put sound effects in there and that was that, right? Well, I also had to preform this advertisement in front of an audience on YouTube. Wait a minute, you’re streaming this live? On YouTube???? Yes, I didn’t know this all too well but; our class was on livestream in front of a few people on YouTube, like parents and anyone else who cared enough to watch teenagers preform an educational play.
We went through a few test-runs to see if everyone knew what they were doing, and then finally the day had come for us to present, and it went fine. Really, I don’t have a lot to say about the day itself other than that everyone did a great job and it was decently funny at times. But, how would I say that I did? Any improvements I could make?
Yeah, I could improve on actually taking notes when I’m supposed to. Focus is a struggle for me in class, and I know if my parents see this in text they’d kill me, but I usually spend my time listening and drawing, instead of listening and writing notes. Drawing while listening to something else keeps me sharp…!!! And, I would probably fall asleep if I had to listen to a documentary on WWII for an hour while taking notes. You would too, right?!?!?!
I really do like how efficient I was when it came to getting work done. I finished my script quickly, faster than my other group members; and took criticism and suggested revisions and applied them to my work. Obviously my script was pretty much already flawless because I’m 100% perfect and make no mistakes, but seeking advice from peers is okay sometimes.. in case I made a silly mistake…

Well, that’s all for this blog post today. Thank you for reading, and I’ll see you later.