on Welcome back to yet another year of school. I’m in grade 11 now (yes I’m still in denial about that: no way has it been three years of PLP already). This summer I did a lot of online math and french for school (don’t recommend). Thankfully, I also got to go on a camping trip… Continue Reading 🧙♂️ How to Become a PLP Technology Wizard (tips for a grade 8 from a grade 11)
on Why should we hire you? – Every hiring manager ever In this post I’ll be reflecting on the work we did in our PGP (Personal Growth Plan) class (essentially careers class but PLP). Specifically I’ll be focusing on the work we did to market ourselves to… Continue Reading 🪪 Marketing ME
on If a tree falls in a city and nobody hears it, did it actually make a sound? Follow former city planner Alex Jamieson (with interviews from his granddaughter, Kaia and his partner in crime, Michelle Sheardown) as he describes his continuing battle to convince developers to work around trees, instead of cutting them down, to… Continue Reading 🎥 Who Speaks For The Trees? | A Documentary by Fraser Wagner
on In this project we learned a bunch about movies, from history to practical skills. I’ll start with the first skill then work my way down past some banana madness, all the way to the grand finale involving a wizard, a penguin and an iPad… Movie history We also learned some movie history. I won’t go… Continue Reading 🍌 From Bananas to Wizards | Vibrant Video
on In this project we created graphic novels about an aspect of WWI. I choose to learn and create a graphic novel about Francis “Peggy” Pegahmagabow, the most deadly sniper and highest decorated Indigenous Person from Canada in WWI. Here’s my graphic novel (pease select a file type below): Please choose a file type to open… Continue Reading 💥 The Story of Francis “Peggy” Pegahmagabow | WWI
on For this Scimatics 9 project, I worked with Makenna to create a Keynote presentation to explain the findings of our survey on screen time, family time and age as well as what correlation and causation is and the differences between them. ⚠️ It should be noted that in our Keynote video we said that the strength… Continue Reading 📉 How Do Screens Affect Your Personal Life? – Correlation Vs. Causation
on In this project we worked with a partner to create an infographic about how European settlement affected all of the people involved, which included the French, British and First Nations. First things first: Thanks to my partner for this project, Julia, for being such an awesome, reliable and hard working partner! I really enjoyed working with… Continue Reading 🦫 The More Things Change… The More Infographics We Get To Make
on In this post I’m going to teach you one of my favourite iPhone tricks, Back Tap! This post is also for me to practice embedding content as part of the 2021 Student Blogging Challenge. If you have any cool iPhone tricks feel free to tell me about it in the comments! First watch this video… Continue Reading 📲 iPhone Back Tap