Welcome to my portfolio for term 1 in 2014 here you will find all of my work over the past term in flight 9. I made this portfolio by taking the instructions and criteria given, and picked my best work to be put on display for everybody to see. I think my work speaks for itself so here you go.
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Conclusion
My goal for humanities is to get interested and invested in every project I do and not get bored and go off track. My goal for science is to have a project where I can present all of my knowledge on the selected topic to my audience. My other goal is to be more organized with my files on my iPad. Thank you for reading my portfolio, have a nice night!
Science Artifacts and Reflection
My best project in term 1 science was my genetic mutation project, where we picked a genetic mutation and researched it and then put our work into the format we chose. I chose to put it into a Prezi and that Prezi then went through 2 peer evaluations and revisions and 2 teacher evaluations and revisions. I was quite strong at the research part but I wasn’t as strong at putting my research and knowledge into my presentation so that is what I need to work on for next time.
My strengths in science are gathering and understanding information myself, my weaknesses is demonstrating that I have this knowledge in the form of project or test. My goal for science is to have a project where I’m not only proud of what I learned, but also proud of how I presented it. Doing this project I increased my knowledge of not only this genetic mutation but all genetic mutations and developed my prezi skills. Here is my crown jewel for science. https://prezi.com/zeq4t84eki-j I think next time a big project comes up I will use a different way to present my work because I feel there are tools out there that I don’t utilize that would be useful to me.
This term I worked well in teams and felt like I took some charge and responsibility but I think I should take on more responsibility to be really successful. My organizational skills in science were lacking and that is another thing to work on is to be more organized. My participation in class is above average in my opinion, because I am always ready to jump into the discussion and contribute. My work on science this term was good, but with more hard work it will become even better.
Humanities Artifacts and Reflection
In humanities this term, I did many good works. I was especially proud of my work on my Frankenstuffie project which was a project my whole class did where we created a Frankenstuffie by melding at least three different stuffies together and then we wrote a creation story, and then made a video about the story. I was especially proud of the writing part of it.
In this project I had an idea of what I wanted to do with the creation of my Frankenstuffie and then went through 4 drafts of revision and outside editing to get a final project that I was proud of. In this project I really learned how to draft, and turn constructive criticism and turning that into a positive improvement in my writing skills and the final product of this project.
In humanities this term I feel I was fairly strong in reading and writing but I didn’t do as well on tests because of my aforementioned study habits that didn’t come through when I needed them and I got distracted, also on the book studies I didn’t enjoy the books so I didn’t do as well on that because my interest level was way down.
This term I worked well in teams and felt like I took some charge and responsibility but I think I should take on more responsibility to be really successful. My organizational skills in humanities were lacking and that is another thing to work on is to be more organized.
My participation in class is above average in my opinion, because I am always ready to jump into the discussion and contribute. My goals for the rest of the year is to get interested and invested in every project I work on because if I achieve that goal I will do a lot better in humanities. Here is my crown jewel of term 1 humanities. http://www.blog44.ca/joelh/?p=30
Sinbad Writing
This is my story on Sinbad the Terror, who is not that terrifying. I got the idea for it when I saw my giant Winnie the pooh and caterpillar and then I needed a third animal so I used tiny bird wings. And then I got the idea for a story about this monster and wrote it all down and here it is.
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Sinbad
Loses Besarionis Dze Jugashvili, also known as Joseph Stalin, was sitting in his office on August 1st, 1939 and thought, “I need a signature flag”.
He was up all night brainstorming about what it should be but then he thought, “I’ll mix animals and make a monstrosity! I’ll call it Sinbad,”.
So he drafted up plans for a monster that crossed a bird, a bear, and a centipede. He decided to get a birds wing’s, a bear’s head, and a centipede’s body. It could have the maneuverability of a centipede, the senses of a bear, and the flight of a bird. Also, the way it would hunt by flying the head up and catching animals to eat. Then he could make a slogan, “Russia, more sensible, faster, and maneuverable then the rest,” that would be the platform for his new country, those traits, that slogan would be useful in the impending war.
So he found a bear and caught it, then he found a bird and caught it, then he caught a centipede and brought it back to his lab. First he cloned all of the beings so there was multiple, then he changed the ratios in the clones so they would fit together. Then he grafted the DNA together, and voilà, he had his monstrosity. He was about to flatten it and glue it to his flag when it used its great speed and maneuverability and ran out of the lab.
It found its way to the Arctic Circle by staying underground for heat and only eating when it needs to like a bear in hibernation. Then one day a man named Vladimir found Sinbad and brought him inside. Vladimir fed Sinbad all kinds of nutritious foods and got him back to health.
But unfortunately, Vladimir made the mistake of calling Sinbad a pet. Sinbad thought, I am no pet! So, in the night sinbad stacked all the canned food from Vladimir’s house and ran to the London harbour. It took him across the Atlantic and landed in Newfoundland in Canada.
When he got there he ran (and sometimes swam) all the way across the country to Deep Cove, North Vancouver. There was a lot of wildlife in the air and trees so it was easy for the monstrosity to feed. Eating mostly birds and tree bugs it made it to Jug Island on the eve of 1940, and on January 1st 1940, he swam to Raccoon Island, where he lives to this day.
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JIMI HENDRIX ROCKS!
Hello all, this is Joel and this is my blog post on Jimi Hendrix. He is an incredible guitar player and a revolutionary figure in music, and general history.
To make this video about the amazing Jimi Hendrix, we used a microphone, Teleprompter and iMovie on iPad.
In conclusion, Jimi Hendrix was a crazy one because he challenged convention and changed the guitar, and the world, forever.
SINBAD’S HAVOC
This was a good project, I enjoyed doing it and it was interesting how everyone connected it to the IR. It was a fun project and I hope we do more like it.
My connection was that the IR was a time of change and that idea is still going today.
This is the greatest video you will ever see.