Month: April 2021

What did European settlement mean for all the people involved?  

European settlement resulted in Europeans and First Nations trading goods and services. The goods that they traded has changed over time, but economic relationships between groups of people has remained similar. 

“ What did European settlement mean for all the people involved?” That was the driving question of this project which revolved around European settlement in Canada. The meaning of the project the more things change comes from one of the topics we learned about in the project called continuity and change we would have our topic and we would think to ourselves what has changed and what has remained constant?

To Improve our understanding of the project we took a lot of notes in our “ New France project notes template “ that notes template was very helpful when doing weekly reflections and while working on my infographic 

For this project we had to make an infographic in Canva to show everything we know about European settlement in North America. Me and my project partner Ben made our infographic revolve around trade and alliances between Europeans and First Nations. Here is our infographic: 

After we finished our infographic we made a script explaining our infographic in keynote then we recorded our selves reading our script and put it on YouTube. Here is our YouTube video:

This project really helped us understand how to use certain apps like Keynote and Canva and grew our learning about European settlement in what we know today as North America.

Destination Imagination was the name of the project I will be talking about today. Destination Imagination or D.I was a very different project. It was very hard to understand what we were supposed to do at first. But then I quickly caught onto what we were supposed to do. We were assigned one of the following 3 topics: Engineering, Fine Arts and Technical. I was assigned to the engineering group where our task was to build a 3D model of a building and then film a mini movie about the building model that you built.

To prepare for the final video we got these periods of time where we would make up a mini story and we would have to act them out in front of the judges. For each one we were given a different subject.

Our final story was about 3 architects who build a recreational centre and have to come up with what kind of architectural styles they want to use and they came up with Post Modernist style and Aboriginal art as well. The story was supposed to show how opposite styles can be complimentary. After about a couple weeks of filming and editing we came up with our final product. You can view our video here:

In the end I think me and my group did a great job planning out everything and filming. I am very happy to have experience a project like this.

Today’s post will be about our Argh Matey project which was about the age of piracy.

We first watched a movie about modern day pirates in Somalia so we could understand why they were pirates and what was there motivation for what they did. We learned that pirates were mainly motivated to be pirates because of poverty. In the movie we watched the Somalian pirates hijacked a cargo ship and then took the resources and took the captain of the ship for ransom money. In the end the US navy had to shoot the Somalian pirates because they weren’t cooperating in giving back the captain of the ship. That movie really helped me understand what pirates did and what they were motivated to do.

The main focus of our project was early pirates from the age of exploration and the different types of pirates from that age. One of the more interesting types of pirates were the Barbary pirates who were from Africa and would kidnap Europeans and would take them as slaves but they had a choice to be released if they wanted to but they had to do one thing. The Barbary pirates would set them free if they were successfully converted to Islam.

Our final product was to make a mini movie with this new app that we were introduced to called AR Makr which was a really cool app actually, you got to draw objects then put them in the app and you open a camera and you could put your objects around in the space on your camera and you could walk around 3D objects. So we had to make a script of what Christopher Columbus and/or England and France did to venture over to the new land which is now known as North and South America. Here is my script:

 

After we had made our script we would film our 3d AR Makr video and then voice over our script then we would post it onto YouTube.

This project overall was pretty cool and fun to learn about even though it was a shorter project then normal.

Today is the last day of the student blogging challenge so I’m going to reflect on the recent posts that I have done as well as some other things. On day 3 of the student blogging challenge we got to write about a topic that interested in and imbed a YouTube video into the post. For my post I talked about my favourite soccer team, Manchester United then I put in a YouTube video of my favourite Manchester United player Robin Van Persie scoring a stunner of a goal against Swansea City. My other favourite post of the student blogging challenge was my previous post about my favourite basketball tournament March Madness.

The blogging challenge really helped me with my writing and was really fun to write about the topics that interest us. I hope in the future we get to do more projects like this one because it was really cool to write about some fun topics.

As the blogging challenge went on my blogs started to get a little better each time which I am glad to see. In conclusion I really enjoyed this project and am glad that it helped me with my writing skills.