Task 1: Using Apple’s Live Loops Live loops is a simple and accessible way to produce your own music, learning the basics of the app can be very beneficial for projects like ours in PLP and for anyone wanting to create their own media. This is my song. Activity 1: Triggering Loops Before jumping into making a song, it is important to become familiar with the options that live loops…
Why does it take a crazy person to change the world? To start off our inquiry into this question we watched Apple’s “Think Different” campaign, as the people in that video would be the “crazy” people we’d be studying. We also made sure to confirm what crazy really meant. There are 3 main categories of crazy, such as mentally insane, a change maker and someone enjoys dangerous activities. https://youtu.be/cFEarBzelBs…
Our focus for this weeks blog challenge is similarities and differences. Students all over the world are participating in the challenge, and even though it may seem like we are all so different from other people our age, we must be reminded that we may all live on different continents but we all share the same home on planet earth. I decided to try out the “two types of people” task, here…
What is a synthesis essay? Our task at hand was to finally answer our driving question, how do authors use text to teach us more about our selves, completely in our own words. We completed this task with our in-class synthesis essay write. Using my knowledge from More Happy Than Not and Persepolis, and Wab Kinew, we answered our prolong driving question. What is the most difficult step when preparing for…
This week’s EDU blog challenge was to get creative with emojis. We had many choices including a quiz, math game or a picture. I decided to take a different route. Here I created a food themed Emoji crossword puzzle. Answer Key Below
For this weeks EDU blog challenge, we were asked to create a post based on non-copyright images and the options you have when adding media to your blog. Here, I will show you two options that I’ve used for my blog posts in the past. talking about taking pictures, how the quality matters + link to blog these were used in Taking Your Own Pictures Here are two different pictures of a…
During our recent humanities unit, we kept in mind our driving question, how do authors use text to teach us more about ourselves? It was a broad question at first, but each and every assignment brought us closer and closer to our answer. In order to start our search for this answer, we had to use literature and filmmaking. First thing, we were assigned a book group along with a…
The contrast between a regular video we do in PLP, with the convenience of retaking shots and planning everything out compared the live event video we did recently, is tremendous. On the filming day, Luca, Melika, Morgan and I all met up at Maggie’s house, we had all the ingredients needed, it was time to shoot. I set up a time lapse with my iPad and filmed all my b-roll…
Recently in class, we have been working on a project called “Ideal Angles”. This project includes both mathematics and science, the driving question is, how can we use trigonometry to optimize clean energy technologies? In order to show our answer this question, we had to use our new found skills in trigonometry and solar panel knowledge to create an ethical house of our own. In order to test which angle…
To begin our year of moving image this year, we focused on recreation and what that really means. It’s not about being influenced, its not about being inspired. It’s re-enacting something, recreating it, paying attention to each detail. During this unit, we re-created two separate videos. The first one was chosen by Ms.Willemse, we were split into groups of 3-4, my group included, Marshall and Jessie. The video we had…
