We all have personal stories, but if you were asked to open up and share one would you? What story would you choose? And how would you tell it?

For this project we told and shared other people’s stories. Over the past few months, before winter break, we have been creating a series of podcasts based on StoryCorps.

Story Corps is public radio show that also makes podcast.

Story Corps mission is to preserves and share peoples stories aswell as building connections between people.

Learning about Story Corps taught me the value of having someone share there story and experience. If we don’t tell our story it will vanish and we will never be able to learn from it.

 

My Mission

My mission was to affectively and efficiently tell the stories of 3 people.

1. My grade 12 partner Brianna, this episode is called “Seycove Stories”.
2. A family member, “Family Identity”
3. A stranger whom I will meet and record during the Winter Exhibition! This last episode is called “Everyone Has a Story”

Before we jumped right into interviewing people we learned how to affectively do an interview with Steve Inskeep.

5 steps to success

1. Ask what question, stay away from yes or no question
2. Listen, let your interviewee finish there thought
3. Follow up in your own words
4. Repeat events back
5. Use silence

Next we listened to short Story Corps podcasts. It was amazing how only 3 minuets stories can be so powerful. We listened to three podcasts and talked about them in this activity:

 

Seycove Stories

 My first interview was very successful. The hardest part was probably coming up with a theme because my grade 12 student, Brianna, didn’t have a specific story. We decided to focus on how her confidence changed through high school. I thought this topic was great because everyone can relate to this.

To help us out Story Corps has a bunch of sample questions that was easy to change to fit our topic.

Now that Brianna and I were ready to record, we looked for a quite place in Seycove. We recorded all the interviews on ferrite recording studio. I was very happy to see that the recording didn’t echo because I have found that can happen in parts of the school. I really enjoyed interviewing Brianna because we were both very relaxed which made it easy to talk. We had a couple days to edit which also was done on ferrite. The app was challenging at first but once I got the hang of it, it was very useful.

My favourite part of this interview is when Brianna told me about how she remembers her grandma telling her when she was little, “dance like nobodies watching”, because it’s a really sweet story and made me think of my grandparents.

Family identity

I decided to interview my Mom about why we aren’t a religious family. My Mom, James and I have always believed in god and followed Christian believes, but only a few years ago my mom and I went to a church. This interview was probably the hardest. Though, this was a interesting story, I found myself having to ask a lot of follow up questions because my mom wasn’t as comfortable doing a interview as Brianna was.

I found it inspiring to to hear how my mom stood up for what she believed because she could have chosen different god parents for James but she didn’t. This interview really taught me that you always can learn from the people around you.

Everyone Has a Story!

This final podcast was a little different then the rest. Not only did we get out of our comfort zone and interview almost strangers who came to the Winter Exhibition. We also looked at a different aspect of an interview. Instead of interviewing people in empty classrooms we made them comfy!

Its very important that your interviewee is comfortable while you do an interview because, they are much more likely to want to talk and share personal stories. Sydney and I shared the foods room together. We moved all but one desk and put a nice table cloth on it. We also put a couch and a couple lamps in our room. Finally we had snacks ice tea and our recording equipment.

Our grade 12 parntner found people who wanted to share their story and brought them to our interview room.

To get prepared for doing multiple interviews I had a list of questions to look back on in case I got stuck.

The best Interview I had was actually with Brianna’s mom, Susan Teegen. She was very comfortable and had a great story about traveling and her experience scuba diving for the first time.

I think this interview went well because I was interested in her story and was able to ask a lot of questions. My favourite part of this interview, is when she told me to not wait till I’m done all my schooling to travel because life gets busy and if not now, when?

For my first draft of this podcast, I got a peer critique from Brianna.

The audio was very choppy because there was a lot of background noise and when I cut the clips you could hear it. Brianna also suggested to change the ending and add a conclusion to wrap it up.

I really enjoyed this unit and learned first hand that everyones story is is worth telling and if you take time to hear it you never know what you might come across

Oh brother another blog post. Just kidding, but this is another book blog post about Little Brother by Doctorow, Cory. 

Little Brother was a great book that teaches and describes simple coding, programming, and hacking. It was also powerful to have a young boy stand up for his country against the government that was threatening and imprisoning innocent people.

But I’m not just here to talk about how good this book was.

In class a couple of days ago, we picked a topic that focused in on one aspect of the novel. We did this in “lottery fashion” which resulted in not getting my top choice, but still a good topic about the American Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The Constitution establishes America’s national government and fundamental laws. It also guarantees certain basic rights for citizens. The constitution was signed on September 17, 1787.

Later, in 1791, the Bill of Rights (10 Amendments ) was made to ensure that no part of the government had too much power over its people. It guaranteed basic individual protection such as, freedom of speech and religion.

In Little Brother, after the bombing of the Bay Bridge, the freedom was taken away from the people of San Francisco. Everything Marcus Yallow, the main character, had learned about his rights had not mattered anymore because the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) had taken over.

I think the fourth Amendment relates to this book the most because in chapter 3 of Little Brother, Marcus stopped a military car trying to help his friend who was severely wounded. Without hesitation the men pulled their guns on Marcus and his friends. “The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level. I didn’t even breathe. Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe, so quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me”(pg. 29).

Later, Marcus was held in a secret prison and questioned for multiple days. The military was ordered to do this by the government, which is against the fourth amendment because his property was searched without a warrant and he was forced to testify against himself.

I admired Marcus because the DHS and many others like his peer Charles were against him, yet he still stood up for himself. When Marcus was debating against Charles in class, he cleverly pointed out something he read from the Declaration of Independence:

“I wanted to read something,” I said. “It’s short. ‘Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness” (pg. 104).

 

This was a very important part to the story and he used this many times against adults who believed in the DHS.

 

The American constitution was created more than 200 years ago.

Hmm more than 200 years… back then there were no cell phones or computers just the newly created typewriter.

It’s amazing that even though our world has changed so much, the Constitution has proved to be stable and flexible enough to survive and remain effective today.

The Constitution is used both as a legal document and as a set of ideas in our society today.

Recently, a Supreme Court case debated whether “Obama care” was justifiable in the Constitution under the Commerce Clause. The Constitution was also used by gay rights activists using the idea of equal protection and personal freedom to achieve their goals.

Though the Constitution and Bill of Rights is still relevant and useful, the internet and technology has caused many problems that go against it. As previously mentioned, in the book Little Brother, the DHS was taking control and disrupting everyone’s life. Using technology, the DHS was easily able to track Marcus and find him when his guard was down.

In his own school, Marcus was also being watched by th administration because they instaled gait recognition, “Gait recognition software takes pictures of your motion, tries to isolate you in the pics as a silhouette, and then tries to match the silhouette to a database to see if it knows who you are”(pg. 32).

In our own lives today, our phones have our every location and every message, and if someone really wanted, they could get all of that. The Constitution agrees that we deserve privacy, however, we could be searched right now without even knowing it.

Sources:

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Office%20of%20Citizenship/Citizenship%20Resource%20Center%20Site/Publications/PDFs/M-654.pdf

https://i2i.org/the-relationship-between-the-declaration-of-independence-and-the-constitution/

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/inventions-that-changed-america-1790-1850

https://home.ubalt.edu/shapiro/rights_course/Chapter1text.htm

https://www.constitutionfacts.com/us-constitution-amendments/bill-of-rights/

The golden ratio 1.618 is everywhere. It’s in old Iphone’s, buildings, plants and even Donald Trump

 

 

 

 

The golden ratio has also been found in many ancient art pieces because it is astecticly pleasing and is often used in spirals and rectangles. You can see the golden ratio multiple times in:

Da Vinci’s “Last Supper”

And Giovanni Bellini’s “Madonna in the Meadow”

We learned about numbers, exponents, and radicals in this unit. The golden ratio is equal to 1.6180339887… This is a Irrational number because the digits keep going on without a pattern. It is believed that the golden ratio is the most irrational number.

Earlier in the year we also learned about trigonometry and I figured out that the Golden Ratio is also equal to 2 × sin(54°)

For this project I decided to focus on the golden ratio in art because I love to draw whenever there’s a chance in projects. I decided to draw a snowy scenery because Christmas is coming up and when we started this project it was starting to get snowy on the mountain.

the fist thing I did was come up with ways to show the golden ratio in a snowy scenery. I found out that you can demonstrate the Fibonacci sequence in a tree.

 

As you can see, the number of branches in each row add up to the pattern of the Fibonacci sequence. But how does the golden ratio relate to the Fibonacci sequence you might ask.

The Fibonacci sequence is 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, …

When you divide each number by the previous number This is what you get:

1, 2, 1.5, 1.666…, 1.6, 1.625, 1.615…, 1.619…, 1.6176…, 1.6181…, 1.6179…

as you can see it gets very close to the golden ratio

I also decided to use the golden ratio 1.6 to 1, in a circle. I first was going to have a moon and a sun but later decided to have the ratio in the moon and the shadow

Lastly I placed my tree and moon accordingly to the Golden ratio spiral

 

There are a million issues going on in the world like terrorism, bombing, and poverty. Though, a single person can’t fix the world, we can make a difference in our community.

For this project we focused on social injustices that have occurred in our cities history around the interwar period, and that are still going on today.

To get us thinking we did an activity. One side of our classroom was “yes I agree with this”, the middle was, “I don’t know” and the other side was “no I don’t agree”. Our teacher told us to choose what we think, and not what our friends think. We got asked questions like, “do you think we should build the  Kinder Morgan pipeline?”, or “should there be a ten year limit to welfare?”. I liked this because we got to debate why we were on one side of the room and see our fellow classmates honest different opinions.

To kick off this unit, we went on a field trip to the Museum of Vancouver! We focused on the City on Edge exhibition that was based on events that shaped Vancouver history.

While we were at the museum we had to think of which 3 injustices for our podcast that we were most interested to us. A few of the options was environmental,labour rights, city growth, immigration, and more. The topics I was super interested in was labour rights and human rights. I took photos on important information I saw ate  the museum that I could potentially use as reasorces.

 

Once we got back and handed in our top picks we were all exited to here what topic we got, and who was in our group. My topic was Human Rights and I was in a group with Ruby, Robbie, and Isobel.

Once we had our groups, we needed to focuse on a specific topic. My group struggled on this. First we were thinking about focusing on woman’s rights, but later decided to talk about homelessness in Vancouver.

What gave us this idea was a issue in Marpole Vancouver that Isobel heard about. Though, this area is in need of a homeless shelture, many people are against it. The shelter would be put up next to Sir Wilfred Laurier Elementary School, and is feared to be dangerous for the kids. Just like the community in Marpole my group have a conflict of opinion on this topic. So we thought it would be great if we made our podcast in a round table format.

Next we made our script on google docs so we could all easily edit

We tried to get two interviews, one with the principal of Sir Wilford Laurier school, and one with someone who cares for people who are homeless. After calling around I got a interview with Tannis Fraser a registered nurse that works a lot with homeless in vancouver. This interview went great she had a lot to say about why many homeless don’t feel safe in a shelter and how it effects there health. I also liked that she had a different perspective then the people of Marpole have on the shelture being built

Our first draft went well with only a few critiques and suggestions such as balancing audio, talking more casual and making our conclusion stronger.

We went through all of the criteria she gave us and double checked the audio till we couldn’t edit no more. Overall I was pleased with our work. I thought our podcast sounded pretty professional, but we could have made it more interesting and creative. I gained so much leadership skills during this project and kept my group members on task. I also learned better time management skills and how to split up work efficiently.

I sent Tannis Fraser, the nurse we interviewed, our finished product and she was very pleased.

 

Book Club

While we were creating our podcast we also did a book club that was about our topic. My group read two books, Persepolis, and The Bite of a Mango. Both were greatly insightful books that showed the lives of two very different girls. The first book we read Persepolis, was about a young girl struggling with identity through the cultural revolution. The second book The Bite of a Mango was about a girl in a small village in Sierra Leone till her life drastically changed when the rebels attacked. While we were reading our books we did 4 reading logs to show our understanding.

Reading response 1

Reading response 2

Reading response 3

Last reading log

Finally our last assignment was to use all our knowledge and write a letter proposing a change to Terry Beech. Each of my group members wrote what they wanted to change for the homeless ppl in Vancouver

My thesis was: We need to be setting up safe homeless shelter shelters where needed. Many of the people on the streets have mental conditions, nowhere safe to go, no family to help them, and are being attacked.

The main criteria I had was to make my proposal more specific which I tried to do in my essay.

 First Homlessness in vancover essay

My first draft of my own essay had great information and ideas but I spelt shelter wrong every single time I wrote it. Though, I edited and had a peer edit, I still missed that a missed spelled the same word over and over again. I will not make that mistake again.

Fixed essay

The next step was to put all of our essays into one. We split up our main topics into three, the Marpole debate, Medical needs, and needed changes in shelters.

Final Terry Beech Letter -2im6jbm

Throughout working on our own topic for the project we also did learning on each other’s.

We watched a video called The 8th Fire that was about First Nations culture. People don’t want to talk about how the First Nations were treated because of how horrible and dark it was. It’s still very important for us to know what it was like for them and have there perspective.

We also learned about immigration and how it has changed throughout the interwar years. We each made a infographic and discussed them in class

While we were exploring the museum and creating our podcast, we made a fun behind the scenes montage. Hope you enjoy

 

Have you ever wondered how some of your favourite places got there name? Well if you haven’t I guess this post is not for you.

Last week it was history week so each of our previous podcast groups made a video about the history and namesake of places like Gastown, Mt Seymour, Lions gate bridge and many more.

Ruby, Isobel, and I decided to make our video about Stanley Park. 

Our assignment was pretty straight forward:

• Title (introduce your place)
• Location (including map!) and images
• Description of the area or site
• History of namesake
• Myth or facts? – Include any stories you came across about the area – real or made up
• Bibliography (minimum 2 sources)

Just to make sure your not confused, here’s a example on the history of Grandville Street.

Though, for our projects we weren’t going to get an expert and our video is only 3 minuets, this gave us ideas of video techniques to add like stop motion.

Next we made a script on google docs so we could all edit throughout the project.

To make the work load easyier on us, I did the recording, and Isobel and Ruby made the visual on explain everything.

This first draft needed work. I was not happy with the audio in this, so that’s what I focused mostly on in our final draft.

I thought this project went pretty well and I definitely learned a lot about Stanley Park.  One thing I would change is the music could have been more up beat and interesting. I thought our visuals were still intersting and well done but If we had time I would have liked to film at Stanley Park.

Till next project.

Clones are exactly the same.

Every molecule in there body is a exact copie. Sounds impossible right? Though, at one point we thought this was the case for identical twins. How similar are twins actually ? We know that there finger prints are different but what about DNA and genetics? Well you came to the right place because we learned all about DNA and genetics in this unit.

What do you already know?

In class we made a mind map about what we already know about DNA and genetics from previous learning. Here’s what I came up with.

After we refreshed are brain we got started on the first step to understanding genetics. Through out this unit leading up to the project we did reasearch and investigations on the website teacher collaborate that easily guides students to understand DNA and genetics. Throughout the learning we filled out tables from the information we gathered from videos and websites.

After we looked at what our own phenotype and genotype was we got to make a paper family. The parents are both heterozygous wich means they carry two different allele like Ee. This makes it so offspring has a chance of having the dominate or recessive gene. To figure out what gene the kids have you can flip a coin, tails= recessive gene heads= dominate gene. Here’s one example of a potential offspring.

This gave me a understanding of how your genes can be random. Instead of flipping a coin we learned how to use a punnet square.

Something I liked about this unit is that everything we did connected to helping us be able to make a informed decision about the topic for the unit project:

If two sets twins from different families each had one baby could the offspring be identical?

Once I figured out that twins aren’t identical it seemed predictable what the answer was though, I still had to figure out how to explain it. So here it goes:

Kate and my project is to explain our answer in a podcast. We used the notes from all of the activities to make our script.

Though our script wasn’t very creative we added a few sound effects into the podcast as well as trying to add a little character by having me be a expert.

For this project there was only one first draft. Our fist draft had troubles with the  audio. Some parts of the talking was louder than the others and the music was to quite.

I took that feed back and made the quick changes to make this final podcast.

Spilling hot oil, hand caught in pizza machine, and even being chased by a forklift. These and many more incidences are all things that could go wrong if your not trained properly.

What are the rights of a worker? Today in class we learned all about work place safety like that you have the right to refuse work.

We started off doing a simple quiz about us as worker. Because I haven’t had a real job I only could answer 3 question

Next we watched the video Lost Youth which showed us real examples of horrible things that can happen if your not trained properly. We learned that you have a right for proper training especially when using dangerous machines like a forklift. One of the examples is that a girl wasn’t properly trained to work a pizza machine and put her hand in it wich resulted in her losing some fingers. After that video I’m not gonna get close to a pizza machine.

Then we did an activity which taught us a little bit of what rights you do have and what you don’t.

A few things I learned About safety

• have two feet on a ladder
• Be extra careful with your position when stacking things
• Don’t carry a box that is to heavy or covers your face
• Make sure the area you are working doesn’t have stuff everywhere
• Most importantly don’t operate a machine without proper training

Lastly, we had to make a visual to show our learning. When I was younger I loved the pictures where you find the difference between two photos. I decided to create my own version of that called Find the Untrained. Below this there is a picture of untrained teens, your job is to count up their mistakes.

Hint 👇

There are 7 mistakes

Answers:  Presentation 3-2aveg37

The war was a massive event that had massive details you need to know to fully understand. In this unit we looked at all of those details from alliances of countries to an actual soldier. You now may know from my last post why did the war start, that the war started because countries felt pressured to fight to keep their power. There were also events that added up to the war starting, like France furganans death.

Many countries joined the war because of the alliances that were already set up like the British and Canada.

The English Canadians felt I tie toward the British unlike the French Canadians. This brought up unresolved tension between the French and English Canadians that even the “Great Compromiser” couldn’t fully resolve. There were also restriction for who could join the war, medical exams required a potential soldier to be at least 5 feet 3 inches tall, and between 18 and 45 years old. Good eyesight, arched feet, and healthy teeth were also essential. Early in the war the minorities like black and Asian Canadians were also banned from joining the war.

How did WWI shape Canada’s identity as a nation?

The Canadians had a huge impact in world war 1. There was so much enthusiasm to go to war and I can say with no doubt that Canadians proved their great capability in world war 1. In the battle of Ypres April 1915 Canada showed their fierce determination even when in bad circumstances when the Germans threw a poison gas attack and Canadians managed to still hold there line. Also in Vimy Ridge the corps were brought together to take over the ridge which was done in three days. The ridge was firmly under control by the Germans and many tried to capture it but failed until Canada. After learning about this unit i was more proud to be a Canadian.

Who were these soldiers that gave Canada its reputation. In class we read a short novel called shattered ground. This novel gave us a inside look about world war 1 as it has many interesting photos of the men in the war. One of my favourite photos from shattered ground was a picture of men waving goodbye to there injured buddies.

After reading and discussing shattered ground I got a much better understanding of what actually was happening during the war. Now I was ready to find my soldier.

We went on to a website that lets you find Canadians that fought in World War 1. After much searching I found a very interesting man named Frederick Hobson.

The site had a digetal collection of primary sources about the soldiers. Here’s a few cool things I found on Fredrick Hobson.

War Journal

 

 

Form signed by Frederick

 

Information and Award Citation

Plaque about Frederick Hobson from Ontario

From the information on the website I had a understanding of Fredericks story that is, though it looked bad he single handedly held back the enemy with a Lewis Gun, which was a machine he had never been trained to use. Sadly he died that day but because of his bravery he gave his crew time to get reinforcements.

How does Fredricks story tie into our driving question. Soldiers just like Fredrick had courage and determination even when times were ruff. Because of this Canada now was looked at as a strong nation when before Canada was looked at as subordinate.

My first script draft

The main feedback that I got for this script was to explain my ideas for the podcast more,  have a bigger connection to the driving question, and make the story less fictional. I made sure to go over the feedback that was given before making the first draft of the actual podcast.

Making the podcast

 

For my podcast I used garage band to make the music and record my audio. This was a little tricky because if you make all of your audio in one file it’s hard to keep it organized and you have to keep lengthening your track or it will cut your recording off. I decided to instead record and edit the audio in different files in garage band, and then put them together in iMovie.

The feedback I got back on my first draft I completely agreed with. I still needed to add more detail about the driving question, music was loud, and there was a echo at the start of the podcast.

To help us focuse on being more creative and making our podcast sound more professional we had to listen to 30 seconds of ten podcasts and write about what made them interesting. After we were supposed to use what we learned from the podcasts and make our own first 30 seconds. I was overall happy with my first 30 seconds with only needing to turn down the volume of the music.

Final podcast

Though I did love this project it was such a relieve to have all the work I put in editing the audio and changing the script done! So here it is, enjoy.

Reflection

I really enjoyed learning about World War 1 though, this was a huge unit that usually would have of board me to death.  I don’t know when the battle of Somme’s was but I now do know that this was one of the first important battle for Canada being joint with the British in the war. I was able to learn this because instead of doing question in a textbook and taking stressful tests about each detail, we looked at the important facts of each aspect in interesting ways, like when we read shattered ground.

 

Soh cah toa. You may remember learning these terms in school but is this useful. In this project we used trigonometry to find the ideal angle for making the best possible solar panel. Seems like a straight forward project right?

First i had to search around the internet because I don’t know much about solar panels. Next I wanted to find what angle is the best to get maximum sunlight. To do this you have to put a few things into consideration like, weather and where you live. The website solar power is the future said that to find your angle you take the latitude of where you live and in summer you take away 15 and in winter you add 15.

Winter: The latitude for North Vancouver is 49.2827 + 15= 64°

Summer: The latitude for North Vancouver is 49.2827 – 15= 34°

To help us understand this concept we did a lab on how to find the ideal angle. The materials Kate and I used for this project was a voltmeter, a source of light which we used the lights in the classroom, and test dividers which is blocks and flat pieces of wood. We wrote down the angle, length, height and volt meter reading each time we raised the angle withe the blocks.

As you can see the highest voltmeter reading was 1.54 which was when we had a angle of 21.5. Next we took a photo of the best angle and labeled it in notability. Kate and I struggled trying to find the angle that the sun is hitting the solar panel because it wasn’t and exact 90° angle like my project ended up being.

After the lab I was ready to continue with my project. For my model I used the angle I got for summer 34°. To get the side lengths I decided the hypotenuse was going to be 18cm and then used Soh to get the opposite and the adjacent sides.

Once I had my side lengths I was able to measure them out on my model of a building. I cut out the length for the hypotenuse and the opposite on a piece of cardboard and taped them together. To personalize my model and I spray painted it  gold in my garage. After I stuck the side lengths on the model i used a protracted to make sure it was the correct angle. Then I added the side lengths and angle on my model as well as a sun.

Once I was done completing my model I decided to make a keynote presentation of my solar panel.

Presentation 2 copy-1coiqtc

 

Hi I’m Hannah Bontinen and welcome to my blog. This blog is to show my learning and development starting this year! I joined the PLP program this year because I felt like I couldn’t possibly meet my fullest potential when all day I would be sitting at my desk reading text books. Frankly, this way of learning just wasn’t for me.

The PLP program is different from normal school for many reasons. The main three reasons is the use of technology, field schools (this is when we get to do a lot of hands on learning), and lastly that it’s project, and performance base learning.

In this blog I hope to share my creativity and add personality through all of the projects we are assigned.

What do I believe in?

Well, I believe in travel. I believe the best way to find yourself is to simply get lost. It’s important to take a step back from your life and stress to remember who you are as a person with out the people and things that are apart of your everyday life. I believe when you travel you can get important life ulturing experiences that you could never have had if you stayed in your comfort zone. Lastly I solely believe I am ment to travel even if it means I have to leave things behind because,

“The world is big and I want to have a discover it before it goes dark.”-John Muir

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tOLeOHjAKu0

This is one of the examples of projects we do in PLP. The project was to pick a meaniful quote about what you believe in, choose a photo that represents that quote, and finally add music and a voice recording of the quote in the background.

First class it took me much longer than I imagined to find my quote but I was very happy with it in the end. The photo I chose was my own picture of a poloroid of me in Tofino. Though I didn’t travel very far I loved it there simply because we were exploring some where new. Next we had to sketch the photo out on a very cool app called sketches pro. This was the first time any of us tried this app and I think we all found it pretty challenging at the start but thankfully by the end started to get the hang of it.

  

Finally, it was time to make music on garage band. I love making music on garage band because you’re able to start with a base of something simple and then add a variety of sounds to go with it. I also like using garage band because it allows you to edit your sound so you can make it exactly how you want. For my song I used a flute, pipa, and glockenspiel which are instruments that you can all find on smart piano. I used a pipa because it is from China which is one of the places I would love to travel to. The very last step was to put it all together in iMovie and voila.

Hope you enjoyed.