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Apartheid Video Reflection

In February, I was part of my class who went to California. While we were there, we started working on Explain Everything videos on conflicts with groups in high tech high. I worked with Brianna and a group of kids from High Tech High on Apartheid. We worked on it for about a day and a half, and here’s what we came up with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3RMrf58f4A

(Only about half of the uploading worked on this video)

When we got back home, our job was to remake those explain everything’s better than they were before. We spent about a week and a half working on remaking these. Here’s Brianna, Youna, and my video on Apartheid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W244SoCmOQ

I think we defiantly did a better job than we did the first time, but I think if I were to do it again I would make more interesting visuals and better animations. I’ve also been worried about it being too long, but it is a conflict that happened over dozens of years, so it deserves to have its whole story told. These explain everything videos will go at the beginning of our Romeo and Juliet rebelling scenes e-book that we are releasing with the High Tech High students. I hope you enjoy!

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Really, Trains? Yes, Trains!

At the beginning of my grade nine year, we were learning to use an app on our iPads called Explain Everything. I had used this app before in seventh grade, but still was not very familiar with it. At the time, we were learning about the impact trains had on the British during the Industrial Revolution. Because of this, we were given an assignment to use the app to make a video on what we had learned. Below is my end result.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBw_AGruYEE

In the app you can add outside footage, animation, and even bring up a live web page. All I knew about that app at this point was that I could draw and move the drawings around while recording my voice. Because I didn’t fully explore the app, this video isn’t too great. Once I understood the app a little better, it has become a great presentation tool! If you’re interested in the app, check it out!

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Only Kind of Sleepless in Seattle

A couple of weeks ago, my whole FLIGHT 9 class went to Seattle, where did a whole lot of things. It’s kind of crazy how many things we did. Although, crazy was kind of the point of the trip. While we were there, in groups of three or four, we would explain why a certain thing was crazy in it’s own way, and finish it off with a video. Jolene, Griffin, and I got the topic Sustainability in Zoos, specifically the Woodland Park Zoo. Our first goal was to finish a storyboard before to we left, so this is what we came up with in the one block we had:

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The zoo was the first place we went on our trip. We weren’t there for very long so we only got about 45 minutes to do our filming. With only 45 minutes, we had a hard time getting everything we wanted, and we didn’t really. We had to do some creative things with the footage we had, and although this wasn’t the video we had originally set out to make, I think it shows our efforts. The three of us worked hard back at school to get the video up to a standard we were proud of and I think the overall project reflects that.

On the actual sustainability, we had to show in our video what the Woodland Park Zoo does to make their zoo sustainable, and ‘green’. What we got was a list of programs that the zoo does, including the Green Team, the Zoo Doo project, and quite a few more. If you want to check out any of these programs you can watch our video down below. Or click here to go to the zoo’s website.

http://youtu.be/lQpwjDisDkg

This video is our final project. We worked hard for a couple of weeks to get this out, and had to broaden our iMovie skills to do it. I hope you enjoy our video.

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Lionwalker The Fake Pokémon

I learned that iMovie was a much more complex application than I had previously thought. Having only played around with the app before, I didn’t know it could be used for things like this.

http://youtu.be/vQhmLifQG-U

To integrate science, I threw in a few words about what we were learning about. I do though realize that I could have integrated more than I did into the iMovie.
To integrate the Industrial Revolution, I made my story to be about somebody inventing something to solve an issue in their life. I feel that in the Industrial Revolution, a lot of things that made a huge impact were invented that way.
If I could do this project over again, I would probably spend a bit more time on the filming and music to make the overall effect of the movie better, and not rely as much on voice over.

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