Category: Edublog Challenge

Time to reflect

It’s been a good 2 and a half months. It does not feel like that long. All 10 weeks went by so quickly. I loved so much receiving comments from people all over the world and hearing what they had to say about what I wrote. To think that this challenge brings people from across the globe together, is really cool. I got 4 commenters on my blog, and each comment was so kind and lovely. The posts that these commenters were commenting on, were so diverse and I have to say they all were extremely interesting, but my favourite was the freebie week. Not because I didnt write anything but because I got to express my creativity through a writing prompt for CBC. This is the link to the post if you want to delve any deeper! The posts were not the only things on my blog, I also had a few widgets and tools to help people who were visiting to figure out where each post was located.

My favourite item on my blog was the calendar icon. The calendar showed people when I had most recently posted a blog, and it was cool to see that I almost always posted the edublog post the day before it was due!

 

When this challenge started I was kind of against it. I have been using this blog that I have right now, for over a year, and so I thought that this challenge was going to be like the projects that I had had to do for school. I thought “oh great more work,” but then I realized that I can talk to anyone, and people that are kind and have feedback for me can access my work.

I also felt that I could truly express myself through these posts. In the future I believe we will probably be doing this challenge again next year but in the mean time we will be writing blogs way to much!

Adlih

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Edublogs week 8 challenge

The challenge I chose to face this week was to try some coding. I am super interested in coding and what it initials so I thought I would share my process with you! 

Coding is the process of designing and building a computer program. Coding is pretty much a secret language that would take forever to figure out! Last week I was on a school trip in Seattle, Washington. One of the stops we took along the way was at the Living Computers: Museums + Labs, building. Here my class and I learned all about the history of computers and programming while also playing around with some programming ourselves. I spent most of my free time at the museum playing a game called Zork.

Zork was written between 1977 and 1979, and it is a game of mystery and crazy scenarios. Zork was written with MDL programming on a DEC PDP-10 computer, which looks like this. (I know, insane that this is a computer!)

In this game the computer was only able to process the answer, and so if you got it wrong it would only answer you with, “I do not know the word____.”

To play Zork you had to get in using code. There were certain password and letters to let the computer know which game you wanted to play. Playing Zork changed the way I see games and apps now because of the fact that it shows you the complexity behind each click.

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Christmas traditions🎄

Bringing a family together is no simple feat. When a family lives far away you might not get to see them often, and this can be the case for many people. For one special day a year to bring everyone together, is revolutionary. To be able to see the people that mean so much to you, is very important. Christmas fulfils this outline, but it contains so much more than just the stereotype “Christmas,” let me tell you about Christmas with the Brittons.

 My Christmas Traditions 

Any celebration, or festivity will be celebrated differently by each person. I know for my family we are a very consecutive family. Our Christmas is pretty much planned out to the day, not consciously though. We will put our lights up on the last weekend in November. This weekend is an ever changing date, but it is set, and every year we put our lights up then. The next weekend is reserved for the buying of the Christmas tree.

 

The putting up of the tree is a celebration in its own. My family feels very strongly about ornaments and the lights looking nice and the experience of putting up the tree being one to remember. (I can not tell you how many times the tree has tipped while we were putting on the ornaments!) While everyone is putting the ornaments up, I always come out with some shortbread and egg nog. I feel this is a tradition for me, maybe not the rest of my family, because I really enjoy sharing home baking with others and my favourite Christmas drink (chosen over the candy cane hot chocolate at Tim Hortons) is egg nog.

While the traditions can be set in stone, I feel that my family has new traditions every year, and we are constantly getting rid of old ones. A tradition that we created rather recently is my brother and I are allowed to open one gift on Christmas Eve. I feel pretty strongly about this new tradition because who can wait the painful 12 hours till the next day to open all of their gifts, and I feel it kind of rounds the edges of Christmas. My family also will have a advent calendar and Christmas lists, so its a pretty basic list of traditions, but who you spend the festivity with and your outlook on it changes everything. Thats why Christmas is so important to me. It wraps my family up in a warm little cocoon, and rewards us for being good people. I am so fortunate to be able to live with a family who is loving, and to live in a warm home. I could truly not ask for more than that.

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CBC writing challenge

My teacher sent out an alert telling us that there is a writing contest coming up and that any of us who feel experimental, and want to try and write a 300-400 word story prompt set in 2168, should give it a shot. So considering the fact that I have literal buckets of homework, a job, and extra curricular activity’s, there was nothing holding me back, and I decided to give it a shot. 

This plant has tons of depth and focus. Comment down below on some of it!

Story draft 1 CBC-1o7puvo

(This is my writing promt please leave some feedback down below if you have anything you want me to change! I would love to hear your feedback!)I feel very fondly of writing and really enjoy reading books and magazines, and so I decided to write this prompt on something I feel strongly about. The prompt was not quite long enough to achieve a proper storyline, but I wanted to write about depth and focus. I wanted to go into so much detail that the whole 400 words is about one moment. One second, and all that people can draw from it. I really enjoy toying around with the idea of what people can take from certain situations and how much people can make out of one moment, because our brains move very fast and sometimes were not quite ready to move on.

 I wanted to take a subtle approach to the futuristic theme, because I am not so keen of sci-fi and futuristic books, and I wanted what I was writing about to be something I enjoyed to write. So I sort of just dismantled that part of the challenge, aside form the fact that the person who’s perspective it is told from is time traveling back for the 28th time to that exact scene in time, they are seeing the girl under the oak tree for the last time. Every time!

I feel as though this prompt went well because I decided to pour myself into detail, and I really am happy with how it turned out. I recently read French Exit, by Patrick deWitt, and I wanted my prompt to reflect some of his influence. I  also used the information that I have been learning in school about hooks and bridges to compete the intro and to draw people into the story. 

The challenge was put on through CBC and I would totally recommend you check it out. The deadline to enter your pieces is the 29th, so get them in fast!

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Edublog Challenge. You can study the ocean?!

Oceanography

 

Oceanography. Have you ever heard of it? Ive always wondered about what the ocean is truly like and how we can become at one with it. Water has been a huge part of my life and I could not live with out it, so I though for Week 6, I could think about oceanography. 

Oceanography is “a branch of science that deals with the physical and biological properties and phenomena of the sea.” Dictionary Definition.

A student of oceanography is called an oceanographer. An oceanographer studies the ocean. There are many fields when studying oceanography such as marine life, ecosystems, ocean circulation, plate tectonics, the geology of the sea floor, and marine ecology.Depending on what field you choose the job will vary. 

Educational Video

The video I found is called When Your Job Is Saving The Ocean. The video is created by Mashable. I found this video very interesting. It explains the day to day job of a marine biologist in the United States. It also talks a lot about saving the ocean as a part of the job and I find that very powerful. The video is based off of a woman named Ariadne

Reynolds, and how her dream was to become a marine biologist, as it was for many young people, but it is a lot dirtier then what it looks like. Ariadne talks about how lucky she is to experience a place in the world that very little get to experience. She also talks about how a little bit of change goes so far, and that under the water a certain plant or animal species can grow so fast, so to say that if you were to change one thing about an environment or atmosphere, that you could truly see the change quickly. 

Two Truths And One Lie

After watching that video, I have a quick little 2 truths and 1 lie test to see if you’ve retained the information, and your ready to move on. Let’s start!

1. Oceanology is what you call people studying oceanography.

2. Climate change can be studied by oceanographers

3. Oceanographers must have a strong understanding of chemistry, geology and physics.

Hope you guys can get it, and if you need a bit of help this is the website that I used to find this information on this topic! Also just leave a comment and I will help you out!

Thanks so much for reading about oceanography, and I hope that you guys have retained some new information about the ocean and its studies!

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EduBlog Challenge Music

For week 5 for the Edublog Challenge the task that I chose to conquer is music.

I would love to share the music that I listen to everyday with the audience. I will be sharing a playlist that I have been listening to for a bit now. The play list is called Killer and it includes songs from Kali Uchis, Brockhampton, and Duckwrth.

Kali Uchis

Kali Uchis’s song Killer is one of my favorites of hers. She describes her heartbreak and sadness through a very mellow feel. I also read that in this song she struggled with a bunch of emotion and past history, and for her to get over it and to create a song that addresses these facts in such a positive way shows that she has strong mindset and that she is such a strong figure.

Brockhampton

Brockhampton addresses everything you’ve ever felt, whether positive or negative. Brockhampton is a “boy band” and they claim to be the best boy band since One Direction. Brockhampton was created quite recently in 2015. In the past year they have gone from a few fans to almost everyone knowing who they are. The song that really touches me from their most recent album Iridescence, is called Tonya.

Duckwrth

Duckwrth is a musical artist and his art is very real. He uses lots of different backround effects to enhance his pieces and it can really speak to the listener. His songs are all very different and my favorite song of his called Indica La Roux. I feel myself merging with this song. I feel the reason I like this song so much is because it really makes you feel nothing around you but the song. I also perceive it as very calming.

Duckwrth in his own universe

These songs make me feel happy and comfortable, I don’t completely know what it is about them. I am also a huge fan of the artists them selves. Kali Uchis has had to struggle through many challenges to get where she is today, and I think it makes her a better artist. Brockhampton has had to undergo a few changes since the creation of the iteam. They seem to be closer because of this situation, and it makes them more of a family. These songs challenge me to think and act strongly, and I hope that they can do the same for you.

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Week 4. Emoji quiz

For week four we got the opportunity to create an emoji quiz. For my emoji quiz I had to think long and hard about what the question should we asking. In the end I came up with a few so I hop you can guess them and have a 💥 while doing it!

First Emoji Question: famous person

Second Emoji Question: famous movie

Third Emoji Question: an action

I hope you guys get the quiz, but if you have any problems leave me a comment and I help you out!

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A poem and a photo. Week 3

For the week 3 challenge I decided to create a poem based off of this photo of kindness. The main challenge for week 3 was to use Creative Commons to get a stock image that you can use for your blog. This image is from Flikr, and is called kind woman in the street.

My poem is called A world with kindness.

People are everywhere,

always watching out,

if you were to hurt yourself,

they are here to care,

if you were to get lost,

they would say beware,

if you were hungry,

they are here to share,

and if you were to need some help.

they are here to spare.

Now if your ever in any harm,

just look around and see,

becuase everybody’s human,

just like you and me.

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Rules for commenting on my blog

These are the rules for my blog, please follow them the best you can, as I would love to see the binary comments! Here’s a link to an english to binary translater, if you would like to use it!

The next step of the task was to visit other students blogs and see what their rules for commenting are, and see if you could follow them and create a helpful comment! The comment I chose to create is on Ty’s blog. The rules for  commenting on Ty’s blog were very direct and easy to follow. This is my comment on Ty’s blog.

I think by commenting on a blog I will create a first hand learning connection for both the creator and the commenter.

Thanks so much for reading, and please feel free to leave a comment!

Adlih

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