Emojis are a universal and versatile form of communication. What might take a sentence to describe can be summed up easily with 😂. For this week’s Student Blogging Challenge, we were allowed to choose from four Emoji related tasks: 1. Emoji Related Story Prompt 2. Emoji Guessing Game 3. Emoji Math 4. Emoji Art My […]
Filming can be a breeze if you’re organized. You bring your equipment, set up, follow your storyboard, and finish with little difficulty. Up to this point, all of our Maker video projects have been like this, but what do you do when you can’t plan what’s going to happen? Our latest assignment posed this […]
As part of the 2018 Student Blogging Challenge, I have been given the oppritunity to check out some other students blogs. It’s interesting how even though they may live on the other side of the world, what they write about is similar to what I do. A few noteworthy blogs to check out include: SBC […]
Ever since they were invented, novels have wowed, engaged, and inspired readers across the globe. They not only provide great entertainment but teach us important facts and lessons. To kick off our year in humanities, our class dove into some great examples of youth literarture. These books include Simon vs the Homosapien Agenda, More Happy […]
Our latest math project gives us the opportunity to build solar powered structures and learn about Trigonometry in the process. Our job was to calculate the ideal angle at a certain location and date that would absorb the most sunlight. I realized something important during this project, and that’s that understanding math doesn’t require you […]
In PLP, we aim to make our work as close to professional quality as possible. We use great equipment, proper camera angles, lots of post production apps, and more to make high quality, well crafted films. However, it doesn’t matter which tools you have if you don’t know how to use them properly. This was […]
Welcome back to another year of learning. I’m excited to see what is in store for PLP 10. I’ve decided to try a more personal approach to my learning portfolio posts this year, and I hope it can help me share my thoughts. Our first unit this year focuses on the driving question “How do […]
What is a story of transformation that impacted me? One story of transformation that has always had an impact on me is that of my father and his career. We have always been similar; liking the same activities and thinking in the same ways. The thing I find most similar between us however is our […]
Canada is a truly unique place in the world today. It resembles smaller countries in Europe by its free services and friendly people, but is the second largest country in the world. Diversity is welcomed, no ethnicity or culture is looked at as less than others. These factors are some of the defining features of […]
Have you ever wondered how sticky notes were created? You probably haven’t, for they are such a common and simple invention that they hardly demand any attention, but every invention starts somewhere. In this case, it began with a man named Dr. Silver who had a friend that became frustrated when bookmarks fell out of […]
