Month: June 2017

It’s the final blog post (bad kazoo of the final countdown)

This one is about the most important moment in Canadian history. We had to pick one topic and argue our point in any way possible about why it was the most important moment in our country’s history. I chose the building of the railway. And how did I chose to explain it?

A vlog. For those who don’t know what that is, that would be a video blog. Pretty much I filmed myself talking about why it’s important. And here you go:

Clickedy Click

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Ruby

It’s time for another SLC. Well…. not exactly. It’s called a “Transitional Presentation of Learning” (or TPoL, take your pick)

In this post, I’m going to be talking about a few things: my growth as a learner, my work ethic, and my abilities of revision, team work, responsibilities, and high quality work as a PLP learner.

I think something that shows my growth as a learner would be my ability to be more positive about my work. At my last SLC I was told that I’m really negative about work that I don’t like. So I’ve been trying to improve on that. I’m going to show two videos, one from the very start of the year and one from just a few weeks ago

This is the first video I made in grade 9. I don’t sound very enthusiastic, and I know I could have done better. But I wasn’t doing it because I enjoyed it, I did it because I had to. I know this could have been better if I had been more positive a found a way to make this enjoyable.

This one I’m a lot prouder of. I found a way to make this my own and make it interesting for me to work on, by putting it in a story book format and drawing on the pictures to make special effects. I was a lot more positive about this project because I made it enjoyable, and I plan to do this in the future in grade ten with all of my work

Next is my work ethic. One thing that shows my work ethic would be my frankenstuffy project. I put a lot of time and effort into this, and I made sure nothing was late or badly done. I set myself a timeline of what had to be done when and I did it, and I’m really proud of that.

The final things are my abilities of revision, teamwork, responsibilities, and high quality work. I think thing that sums this all up would be DI take two, the Provincials. We took the critique we got and improved on it, making our script stronger and improving our codes and our gadget. We worked as a team to do that, giving everyone something to be responsible for. In the end, I think it went well. And we won first place so that’s what matters here

And we’re done!

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Ruby

Before we begin, let me explain the title. It’s a pun, you see (Credit to me)

Is your name Eugene? Because Eugene-ius.

(Eugene Levy)

Just let that sink in, say it out loud, and then laugh and show your friends.

Anyways, why am I Eugene?

(Eugene Lee Yang)

Besides being a slytherin, its back to the genius pun.

For blue sky this year, I made…. a folder backpack. Yes, I have made a backpack with a folder inside for organization.

During this blue sky journal, we had to write a journal along to way. So instead of rewriting everything, I’ll let that explain everything:

Phase 1:

Students have an issue being organized. Sure, there are the special few who know how to do it, but for the most part it’s hard. So I decided to make a backpack that helps student organize their papers so they don’t crumble and die at the bottom of the abyss that is a school backpack. One file space for each subject, plus an extra for maybe a spare notebook or those little doodles you what to keep.

I was really drawn to this because I know around grade 5 is when my backpack started becoming a horror show. Ripped papers, assignments lost, notes covered in last week’s yoghurt that spilled everywhere and now smells bad. So this backpack would have really helped me back then so I didn’t get into bad habits. It saved the bother of a binder, which could be forgotten at home, and is such a pain to flip to the right page. It’s a portable file, and I think it will really work out.
Phase 2:
The next challenge is actually going through with the idea of making a backpack folder (not the official name). First step is questions. And a lot of them. More specifically, a lot of ‘How Might We’ (HMW) questions. For mine, there was quite a few. How might we help tweens be more organized with their schoolwork? How might we make sure teachers don’t receive crumpled papers? How might we get good organization habits for students for the future? How might we make sure homework doesn’t get lost or ruined?

So, as you can see, these questions break down the project into seeing what it’s really for, and what it accomplishes. So, here’s a more detailed layout of my project: Making a backpack that helps organizes papers for tweens so they don’t crumple up papers and get into bad organizational habits for when they’re older. Next: let’s tackle the problem.

Phase 3:

Next is research. I’m having to research not a lot, besides teen organization habits. Luckily, my girl guide group is full of tweens, so I had no issue discovering tweens do actually just shove a lot of things in their backpack. I also researched how to deconstruct a backpack, hoping I can use that to insert the folder easier.

I then went on to make my first prototype. It’s just a blueprint, but it’s going pretty well. It lays out the basic ideas of what I want it to look like, and I hope the final product looks as well!

Phase 5: My first prototype is a blueprint of the backpack. Along with labels and a detailed drawing, it highlights the sections of the folder. It’s just a basic idea of how I want it to look, but I hope everything goes according to plan

Phase 6: I made a second prototype. It’s really small, using a doll’s backpack. I’ve glue gunned a folder into there, hoping it will stick. I think I’m going to need to revise, as the folder is in the wrong way. It opens like a book, which doesn’t really work for putting papers in easiest. I’m thinking of flipping the folder, but the glue gun is working so far

Phase 7: And it’s all done. After revision and making a short video, it’s done. The full sized backpack works really well, it can hold around ten different sections of a folder. I’m really proud of how it turned out. I made a video explaining the creation of the final product, which is on YouTube to see.

 

The final product wound up looking like this:

Yes, those are gummies. The only proper thing to bring in your backpack.

So that’s all for this post. I hope you enjoyed

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Ruby

Wow, another post. It’s almost like we need to cram a bunch of projects in at the last minute

But I’m here and that’s what matters. This is another health and Career post, about… Me. Plot twist

This is about the things I carry. But this doesn’t mean only physical. Also mental. See, we’re getting all metaphorical here at Seycove.

We had to do a keynote presentation on the things we carry. We had to choose ten things and do a presentation on it. Easy, right? Actually, this time, yeah. I’ve attached a link below where you can see my wonderful slide show.

 

Yeah, I’m really proud of it and I hoped you enjoyed. Fun fact: I was supposed to do this presentation on a Friday but I was in hospital getting my appendix removed! Yay!

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Ruby

Another blog post? What? This is another Health and Career Post, amazingly.

Its about careers. Now, the question anyone is high school fears is “what are you doing to do when you’re older?”. Seriously, if any adults are reading, that is a terrifying question. It makes us have an actual existential crisis

Yeah. But we had to do an entire project on it! Yay…

This project included making a timeline of our life, setting five goals for the future, and taking quizzes about what careers we should get.

Then we had to ask a video talking about what we should do in the future.

Lets start with the quiz results. We had to take three quizzes to see our recommended jobs we should have. My results:

Quiz 1:

Quiz 2:

Quiz 3:

So everything thinks I should go into either some desk job or work with technology. Or be a dentist.

So naturally, for the video, I chose to be an actor.

In my defence, I like acting and I think it could work out.

But more on that later. Let’s look at my lifeline:

Lets break it down. The One colour pastel images are my past. The rainbow ones are my goals for the future.

Then there’s the video. The video is going into more detail about those goals. I knew doing a normal video was boring, so I switched it up a bit. It’s been taken in pictures, like you’d see in a story book, and I’ve voiced over it and edited the pictures. Hope you enjoy

So that’s all for this blog post.

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Ruby