Always Be Safety!

Sam

Welcome back,

A few days ago, our PLP 10 class began our first small project for Science class. Before we could do any labs, we needed to know the safety rules in the classroom. And we did that by making a video that demonstrates three or four situations in a lab that could happen, and what do do in those situations. I was in a group with Spencer and Kyle, and we bang planning out which safety situations to include in our video. We came up with this list:

The next thing to do was film. We decided to film right then and there in our science class, and I believe that was our first mistake. That was because we couldn’t get good quality shots, and we didn’t have very much control of our surroundings at all. This wasn’t good. We filmed all our shots and then we put them all into iMovie, where I put them in order and added some music. We didn’t use audio, we thought it would be a cool idea/technique, but after getting critique from our teacher, we decided to add some dialogue. But, we didn’t have time to re-film our whole video over again, and since Kyle was sick, we decided to add my voice as Kyle’s thoughts during the video. So me and spencer found a quiet area outside and recorded it.  Our final product was this:

This definitely wasn’t my best video, and I would have loved to do it again for a better mark, but we had to move on. Overall, it was fun to make, but it didnt turn out as well as my group and I hoped.

See ya

 

Before World War Uno

Sam

This post is an extension of my other WWI post because we had to make one more video. This video was very fun to make.

Anyways, after our teacher saw our first blog posts and videos she decided to extend the dude date for three more days, and we were to make one more video with a group no larger than three. I was with Robbie for the planning stage, and then the next day Calum joined our group because he was sick the day before.

To start it off we came up with a thesis about why we think the war started. We came up with this:

“World War One began because of the numerous shifting and unstable alliances of the countries that participated in WWI. The alliances were established before the war and soon were untrusted making all the countries itching to fight.”

Then we built a video around that. But first we needed some information that supported our thesis, and so we found a timeline of the alliances formed prior to WWI and worked out what we would say from there. We had a few main ideas to talk about, which were:

  • – The fact that there were many alliances made
  • There were 18 million deaths involved in the war
  • There were alliances before the war started, and they weren’t super stable
  • This is what began the war

Those points were just some basic ideas that we came up with to get us going, and have a bit of structure in our video production.

We then started filming, and we chose different spots to film throughout Robbie’s yard to keep the viewer engaged. We spoke in chronological order about what happened, and shot short clips where me and Robbie each spoke a sentence about the topic. This part was serious, and we spoke right down to the point. Then, to loosen up the seriousness, we decided to film a “Robbie Recap” which was Robbie sitting on a stool playing ukulele while “singing” a summary of what we just said.

Me and Robbie were the speakers, and Calum was behind the camera. After this interesting musical solo we filmed our outro and then went inside to do some editing…

Which took 2.5 hours…

This was because we had to make a short intro, make our own music with the app GarageBand, and make other images to go with our information, and be relevant to our thesis.

Our idea was: Have the intro, then our thesis, some information, Robbie Recap, more information, summary, and the outro.

And so we did. We put all the clips in order, added the music and images me made, and then looked it over. We lowered the volume of the background music, and had ourselves a nice video. And so, here it is:

The next day, all, our videos were shown in front of the class, and the one thing I realize now we should have done more of was humour/entertainment. We should’ve made ours more funny, but still historically correct and respectful. The one funny part (Robbie’s Recap) wasn’t enough. Also I think we should’ve filmed other things other than just me and Robbie talking. I think those things overall would have made our video better.

But, I really enjoyed this project and learned a lot about the war doing it so, check it off the list.

Thanks,

See you

Camp-ilano

Sam

To begin this school year, our teachers organized a one night getaway for us PLP 10 students, to get us working hard as a team right away in the year. We went to a small camp only a 20 minute drive away called Camp Capilano, and it was a small building with a dining room, common area with couches, and two large rooms with bunks, one for the guys and one for the girls. And there was a pool, which was very important. We worked on a three projects while we were there.


Our first project wasn’t filmed at Camp Capilano, we stopped at an outdoor park by a dam near the camp to work. It was an outdoor area with multiple viable locations to film. This project was inspired by Master Chef, Amazing Race or Big Brother and their intros that introduce all the contestants. We watched those intros and looked to see the different personalities of the different people earlier that day. Then we made our own intro that had to introduce different people, but we weren’t allowed to use dialogue. We were in groups though, and we had to act out 10 different characters that had distinct personalities. We only had one hour to make the entire video, so once the starting gun fired, my group of five got right down to work.

We first thought of the different personalities we wanted to portray, and then planned how we would show that in a short clip without talking. It was difficult because we really needed to think on how the viewer will be able to compare each character to the next, and see how they’re different. Anyways, our theme would be a wilderness survival show, and we titled it “The Wilderness Games.” Our characters would be participating in this event. Anyways, what we came up with is this:

After watching it, with only 10 minutes left in our allotted time, we realized we should’ve:
• Made our clips a bit longer for each person
• Really broken down what we wanted to portray and focus on that one small thing better
• Transitioned between characters better

But, we were happy with what we got, and it was a good start.

That afternoon, after a great lunch, we then were assigned another project. This one was assigned when we had arrived at Camp Capilano. The main idea: the same thing we just did with the TV show intros except only audio. No visuals. Only us recording our voice. We got into our same groups and got planning.

Since there we couldn’t film and show personalities physically, we needed to think very carefully about what we put in the script. We got to work planning out the 10 different characters which were mostly the same as before, but we changed a few people that were easier to portray through voice. Our main idea for this task was still the Wilderness Games, but now you were hearing a reporter ask all the contestants what they think their biggest strength will be in the Games. First we wrote a script, and as we went through it, we made the necessary changes. Then we were ready to record. We went through and each did two different people, and then once we recorded all of it in iMovie, we did a little bit of editing like cutting the clips, or reorganizing the order of them. Then we got our final product:

That one was fun to make, yet required careful planning and thinking to pull it off right. Then we had free time. We swam in the pool for an hour or so, and it was lots of fun. It wasn’t super deep and it didn’t have a diving board, but we had chicken fights and breath holding contests and stuff like that which made it fun.

Then there was dinner, and then we watched the projects we already did. They were really fun to watch/listen to. Everyone tackled the assignment differently, and it gave everyone ideas on how they could’ve done it a little differently, or ideas for next time.
Then the final project was given to us. We had to find different groups, and so I ended up with Simon and Spencer. We then had to make a 4:00 podcast (audio only story) that was on the topic of identity. We needed a story that talked about our identity and how it affected or portrayed our identity. Oh boy.
By the way, this project was introduced to us at around 7:00 pm that night, and it was due at 10:00am the next morning…
So we had to get cracking


Spencer Simon and I thought for a while and were having trouble coming up with something. Our only idea was this one time we were maintaining an area of Dirt Jumps for mountain bikes, and one time when we did a lot of work in particular, I ended up crashing face first into a log on the ground really hard. Then the next time we went there, we noticed that there were other bikers there, and we were happy.

We thought this story was a good idea because it shows that we like mountain biking, and we will build trails in our community to help it, just for fun and we keep going even when we crash. We pitched this idea to our three teachers, Mr. Hughes, Miss Willemse and Miss Maxwell. They thought our story was great, but to leave out the part where I crashed, or at least don’t make it the main part of our story. This is because the smaller of the event we chose to talk about the better, because we could really break it down. We agreed and got to work. This was between 8:30-9:00. We began our script writing, which was hard when your brain is fried and it’s getting late…


But then we began second guessing our decision on our story, which really, really, slowed us down to the point where we stopped and asked the teachers which idea to go through with because at that point we’d thought of two more. They listened to our new ones and told us to fully commit to our first one, which they thought was the best. And so we did. This was definitely past 10:00, probably later.
We wanted to just skip the script writing process, but we didn’t know what we were saying it so it wasn’t as strong as if we did have a script. So then we began slowly began wiring bit by bit on the script. This almost drove us insane. It was probably 11:45 or later, and we’d barely got anything done. All three of us were cranky and tired, and kept getting off track. This went on till about 1:00-1:30am when the teachers told us we all need to stop and go to sleep. Relieved, we dragged ourselves off the couches and went to sleep. We’d managed to get most of the script done, so when we woke up at 7:00 the next morning, we finished our recordings, ran through it, and were happy. Then the fun part. Listening to everyone else’s. I liked hearing all the different stories and sometimes funny, sometimes serious interviews in each podcast. One podcast was actually all about Kyle’s hair…

Anyways, here it is:

This project is really fun, and taught us a lot without us even realizing it. We learned about personalities, how to analyze them, portray them through visuals and audio, telling a good and interesting story, and lots more I haven’t thought of. Overall it was an awesome trip where we all got to know one another better, and had lots of fun.

Thanks,
See you

 

 

Smart Goals Are Almost As Smrt As Me

Sam

In PLP 10 now, yes, summer has now turned into grade 10, we have been working on something called SMART Goals. They are something we want to accomplish this year. SMART is an acronym in this case, here’s what it is:

We needed to base our goals on this acronym, and check that our goals meet all those standards.

We needed to write three different goals. A goal about learning in school, a goal about growth as a person, and a goal about learning outside of school.

My first goal (about learning in school):

1. I want to be able to manage my time with PE online responsibly and successfully so I can achieve an A grade by using a spare block to work on PE online.

I made this goal because I just recently took the class PE online because that was the only way I could take my favourite clsss, engineering. I now have to manage my time because it’s a self-paced class, and I need to be organized so I don’t fall behind.

My second goal (about growth as a learner):

2. I want to be able to grow as a better presenter by taking speaking opportunities presented to me, and recording my rehearsals to listen if I need to pronounciate any words better, or change my script.

I chose this goal because I really do want to improve my comfortability in front of an audience.

And my third goal (about learning outside of school):

3. I want to learn more about how I can be apart of the trail maintenance company that is in charge of the mountain bike trails in my community, and help out because I love mountain biking and I want to build trails.

This goal is about what I want to do when I’m not at school. I do want to volunteer my time to help maintain some of the trails near me that I ride so much.

The last thing we needed to do for this mini project was create some kind of visual to represent each of our goals, and an audio recording with it of us saying the goal that goes with it. My first one was this:

The visual I made with a few images, and it’s supposed to say that I need to do my homework and manage my time well so that I have time to do my PE online well, which is the silhouette of a guy running.

The second goal is about me getting better at presenting. Here’s the video:

The paper in the bottom corner represents practicing and writing my script again and again until it’s perfect, and the restart button in the other corner represents me recording my speech and restarting if I need to.

The next goal (learning outside of school):

The rider is heading up to where he has to work, and the sign represents I’ll be working on bike trails, and the shovel represents the hard work it will take to move and shape all the dirt.

This project took a lot of thinking ahead, and careful thought on how to represent it in a visual. It really makes you think of what you want to accomplish this school year. I really enjoyed creating the visuals for our goals. Overall, an interesting and fun project

 

See you,

World War Uno

Sam

Hello again,

The first big unit this school year for humanities is talking about WWI. Right now we are talking about our opinion on what, how or who started the Great War.

We watched a few videos on the main events prior to the actual war, and took notes on them. Then, from those notes we needed to create some kind of visual, which was expected to look like a mindmapof some sort. And this is what I came up with:

The next thing we had to to was get into groups of four and each read a chapter of a small book that talks about a few aspects of how the war might have started, and supporting points. Since we read one chapter each to save time in the class, we took notes and shared with each other what we found out in our chapter. The next part was forming a thesis in our own words on how we think the war began. The thesis I came up with is this:

“The Great War began because of unstable and shifting alliances, which made all the countries uneasy and itching to battle it out.”

My three main points to support this statement are:

1. It never would have happened in the first place if everyone was happy with their place in Europe physically and politically

2. Russia sending troops and money to Serbia really made Austria nervous, setting off an attack

3. All the countries were on the verge of war  and were scared to lose their rank and respect from other countries, which pushed them over the edge.

On thing we learned in this unit so far is that there is no specific reason the Great War started, there are so many different opinions on this.

We had had to do one final thing to support our thesis, and that was make a type of visual. My visual was made in the app Explain Everything, and I cropped and cut out the backgrounds of my images with the app Photoshop Mix. During my research on this topic, I found this cartoon of the beginning of the War, and I thought it was really interesting.

I then had an idea which gave me this final project  I was going to turn that cartoon into sort of a comic strip movie. I was going to bring it to life in my own way. Click below to see the video:

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This project was a fun and interesting one, and I’m looking forward to the rest of it, since this is only the beginning…

Thanks,

See You

The Last Project of Grade 9!

Sam

Hello once again,

As you can tell from the title, this is the last project and blog post about my schoolwork in grade 9! I know, it’s crazy. The third term of this year flew by for me, probably because of all the work I had to do. So, this time I’ll be talking about the final project of our History Of Canada unit we have been studying for the past month and a bit. This project is meant to get us to reflect on all we learned, and then choose the event in Canada’s history that we think is the most important. And for me, I chose the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railroad.

This was just one of the many events we studied that took place in our great country’s history. But I chose it because I think that the railway sort of “sewing Canada together” in a way. The eastern provinces, British Colombia and Manitoba wouldn’t have joined Canada’s confederation if it wasn’t for the governments promise to build a transcontinental railway that spans Canada. It was the link between the east and the west. But anyways, I’ll show you the project part of the assignment:This is a keynote presentation I made to give some history about this event and then explain to the viewer why I think that the CPR is the most important event. The process of creation was pretty short compared to other projects I’ve done, mostly just research and finding the right pictures.

This project was good because it got all of us PLP students to look back at what we learned and really break down that information so that a viewer without knowledge of what we learned could understand. Overall, this project was fun and a good last assignment.

Now I will be showing you some other work we did in our Canadian history unit:

This was a poster we did a few weeks ago, and the main idea was to create a poster targeting a certain audience that encourages them to come work on the CPR. As you probably can guess, we did this in the railway part of the unit. Anyways, here it is:

Another mini-project we did was to make a character card of a typical miner from the Cariboo Gold Rush era. We did this assignment while studying the gold rush, and it was pretty fun to make up a person:

Another piece of work we did was to write a short speech about whether BC should join Canada’s confederation, not join it, or join  America. We were split into three different groups, and each group got one of the three options above. My speech had to encourage British Colombians to not join Canada’s confederation. So without further ado, here it is:

And that’s all for our Canada’s history unit, it was an interesting unit overall.

See you,

tPOL’s – Totally Perfect Observations (of) Learning

Sam

Hello, and today I’ll be talking about my Transitional Presentation Of Learning – or a tPOL. I’m going to cover four main points:
Examples of growth
Examples of revision
Examples of hard work
My favourite project and why

So let’s get right into it.

Examples of Growth as a Learner

Growing as a learner is something every single PLP student does, in all different ways. It helps us with all our projects, and we all grow as learners whether we realize or not. Every assignment that’s a little out of our comfort does exactly that. We learn with every new experience.
And so, over the course of my whole PLP 9 year, I think that I’ve grown in my ability and comfort to present to an audience. From just standing by my Blue Sky projects at an exhibition to doing my past SLC’s, I think that I’ve definitely gotten way more comfortable at presenting. A good example of this is a few weeks ago, a group of maybe 50 teachers and Apple employees came to our school to learn more about PLP. And I was selected to go on a panel with some other students in front of all those curious teachers and just say a few quick words about one project that I did, while my teacher ran the presentation. This made me quite nervous. But, I fought down my fear, and just did what I came to do. It wasn’t much, but it got me pretty nervous. Now I think that I am more comfortable with presenting, a lot more than before.

Examples of Revision

Revision is a crucial part of PLP. After being in PLP for two years now, I now realize that if we didn’t have the revision aspect of the program, we’d be similar to “regular school.” In “normal school” you’d turn in your assignments and depending on how much work you put into your assignment, get a grade based on that. Then you move on. But that’s not how life works in the real world, you don’t get off with doing a half-decent job at something, you go back and do it well. That’s why I chose my fantasy video to show my revision skills.

Florida Films From February

When I was in later elementary school, grade 7 in specific, I went to a small private school here in north Vancouver. It was a small class and after a few assignments, I was used to being the top of my class without breaking a sweat. I did all my work on time and it got me good marks every time. And so when I got to PLP, my fantasy video assignment in particular I made my video, handed it in, and moved on. Then, when I was given it back and told I needed to revise, I was a little taken aback. This hasn’t really happened before, and I’d never had to completely redo an assignment. But, after a few more drafts, I managed to complete the assignment, and my end result was more appealing to the viewers, and better overall.  All in all revision is still new to me, and now I’m starting to see that it pays off.

Example of Hard Work

Lately in PLP, we’ve had multiple projects at once, and we’ve had to work hard. Hard work is very common to see in PLP, you can’t get a good mark without it. I think out of this year the assignment that shows my hardest work is: my Frankenstuffie Video.

Freaky Frankenstuffie

That’ll explain it, and I’ll tell you about why it took a lot of hard work. The main reason why it took a lot of work is because this assignment came from multiple classes. There were math ecology, geography and LA aspects to it. The video definitely took the most work because it was pulling all those together into one animated film, and let me tell you, animation takes FOREVER. This video came to me at the wrong time, I was just starting, and then I left on a week and a half long vacation to California, and when I cam back, my classmates were done, and starting Blue Sky. So, when I got back, I left it till later and worked on catching up other work. It was about two weeks later that I finally just got it done. It took me a long time, all the animations and information had to be perfect. I think the whole thing took me 4 hours to complete… this is definitely on the list for hard work, and I think that this drive to complete work well will help me to be a better PLP 10 student.

And to add a bit of my own touch:

My Favourite Project and Why

I think that having a favourite project is an important part to learning. It gives you a good memory of your schoolwork and helps you to try to recreate that favourite aspect to other parts of your learning. My favourite project this year is my Things I carry presentation.

The Items I Bring

I really loved this project because it was talking about something I know a lot about: Me. I also really enjoyed watching my classmates and their presentations because it allowed me to see their personalities in ways I hadn’t before. But I liked this project because I really strived for mine to be remembered. I’m not sure if that’s true, but I think it is. I really wanted mine to be funny, and go above the expectations. I included videos in my keynote because no one else had, and I thought it would help bring my presentation alive. I included some of my own funny/embarrassing photos of my friends to make my classmates laugh as their hearing what I have to say. Overall, this project was my favourite because I could really personalize it however I wanted, and it was really fun to present to my classmates.

Those are some of the examples on how I’ve become a better PLP learner, and I hope that it will be a good reason for me to be accepted into PLP 10 next year. I’m really looking forward to it,

Thanks for listening.

Blue Sky 2017

Sam

Hey there,

Welcome back to my blog, and in this post I’ll be talking about the biggest project of the year. Blue Sky. We do a mini-version in the winter before Christmas break, but really that’s just getting us ready for this one. This one we work on for about a full month, maybe a little more. This year is a bit different than last years Blue Sky, because this year our project has to solve a problem that appeals to a specific age group. The age groups were, babies, toddlers, Tweens, seniors, and pets. Between the grade 8s and 9s, there were about the same number of PLP students per age group. Anyways, as it does every Blue Sky, it took me about a week longer than everyone else to think up an idea to do my project on. Seriously though, I don’t know what it is, but I can never just have an idea off the top of my head! After thinking for a bit, the idea I came up with was this:

Age group: Tweens

Problem: Tweens can’t drive themselves to a mountain bike trail

Solution: A multi-use mountain bike skills trainer that Tweens can use in their own driveway

After this basic idea, I needed to think of how to actually build it. In all of my Blue Sky projects, I have always built something, which I prefer and love to do rather than presenting an idea. Back to the planning. I drew up a rough beginning of my first piece of my project:

This would be a two piece ramp, that splits in half by a hinge to make a skinny. By the way, I LOVE mountian biking so this project is going to be fun. The next step was to design the second half of my project, the bump sections.  I wanted something a beginning mountain biker can use to jump off of, and practice bumpier sections. So I designed this mini-staircase to go with my ramp, and how the whole project would fit together:

The next part was to build my first prototype. We were encouraged to have three different prototypes of our projects, but since I had limited materials available for free, I only had enough for one, and that’s all I needed. My first prototype looked like this:

After I built it, I needed to test it. So I got out my mountain bike and rode over it. Here is me testing it:

https://youtu.be/F3Kpe-ie-Gs

This didn’t go as I planned, the ramp was too steep of an angle, and the top board was too short, so it didn’t feel smooth at all. It didn’t work as a ramp, and felt very awkward to ride over. So, then I built my next draft of my ramp:

https://youtu.be/epNCmZje1hI

https://youtu.be/onV2qrfsZ1I

This one I liked a lot better. It felt more smooth and more jump-y. This was good. So I then built another one exactly the same, and attached two hinges to them at the front, so they would swing on a hinge. Here’s me demonstrating the hinge mechanism:

https://youtu.be/zNgLnctkGIA

The next step was to build the staircase part. So I designed quickly, and found some wood around my yard that would be perfect. Then I started building:

https://youtu.be/cljQ_11wg7A

It actually turned out great on the first try. I was happy with how it performed, after I tested it out of course:

https://youtu.be/gyLMYL0UXxM

Then I built the second one. This one I had some problems with… I accidentally sawed my base piece in half thinking it was unused wood so I could use it for the steps… then I quickly realized I didn’t have a base anymore and where the step pieces came from…

So then I had to support the base piece with some ugly-looking side pieces (I was running low on wood) in order to hold it straight. This worked, and once I put it together it held strong. But, since I sawed the base piece to fit to my step pieces, the base on this staircase was an inch shorter than the other, so they aren’t the same, sadly. But, then once it was ready I tested everything together:

https://youtu.be/4JhTE4MgEqQ

It all worked perfectly! I spent some time, and had a lot of fun “testing” my pieces…

But then I got back to work and painted everything I made, black and grey.

https://youtu.be/wvJurDw9Rfc

I even found some plastic siding from our old closets that fit on the ramp and stair pieces to make them look even better. In the end they all looked like this:

Now it was time to get ready to present in the exhibition on June 15. The first thing I did was to take all the time lapses I took of my creative process and combine them into a 4 minute or so video explaining my process. I presented this video with my project at the exhibition. In fact, here it is:

https://youtu.be/K4-2BJuL1SQ

I’m very happy with how this video looks. It’s very to the point I thought, and doesn’t bore the viewer, which is something we all learn how to do in PLP. But, as usual in PLP, that’s not all. I also made a poster board with my creative process (I know, the creative process is a big deal) on it to visually show my project off and attract more visitors on exhibition day. I wrote out four of the main steps to my project and briefly described what happened in each stage. Overall, when exhibition day rolled around, my table looked like this:

(Ignore the stuff on the right side of the table, it’s my friend Simon and his project, same with the A&W food…)

The main idea or use that I wanted my project to be used for was:

A really easy to use multi-use skill trainer, I wanted people to be able to use this product wherever they want in whatever shape they want. They could even use obstacles in their yard and add this project into it, like the ramp at the bottom of a step, or the ramp going up the steps, but I wanted it to be anything they want.

I’m quite pleased with how my project turned out, and I thought it suited me and my abilities. I enjoyed the construction of my product, as I said earlier I love to build, and also the presentation of the whole thing. I found it relieving and satisfying to show it off. Overall, it was super fun and I am happy with the whole thing.

Thanks

The Items I Bring

Sam

In this post I’m going to talk about another project in PLP we did this past month. I really enjoyed this project overall. Anyways, the class this project is from is HCE, and the assignment was to create a keynote explaining the things we take with us in our daily life, whether it’s mentally or physically. So I started the project by thinking of the ten things I carry with me mentally and physically, and I came up with this list:

I was happy with this so I went to work putting my slides together. I first started by finding images for each slide, and thinking how to piece the whole thing together so it flows smoothly. I found all the images I needed, but some weren’t the way I wanted, so I took them to Photoshop Mix, a great photoshop app. For example, here is what I did with my bike to get rid of the background:

 

The next step was to add all the text and presenter notes into my keynote presentation. After I watched a few of my classmates presentations, I knew what I wanted to do. My general plan was to have one item per slide, and give a brief explanation of why I carry it with me. I also wanted to make my presentation more interesting than the ones I saw already, not that they’re bad or anything, I just wanted to go above expectations. There were some criteria we needed to follow. We needed to demonstrate our understanding of Keynote through using a variety of special features keynote has to offer. Anyways, I wanted my presentation to stand out to my classmates, and I wanted to make mine sort of funny. I used some old photos I found of me and my friends to do that, and also using two of my friend Robbie, to embarrass him a little, in a fun way. I also think I went above expectations by putting in two videos that I took in my presentation, while no one else in the class did.

Back on track. To finish my project, I rehearsed on my own, and then the next day presented my project, and it went well, thankfully. Here is my final keynote presentation (although the special transitions or videos won’t work):

So, I really, really enjoyed this project. I found it very interesting to see what other people “carried” with them, and I enjoyed presenting in front of a class I’m comfortable with. I’m also very proud of this project and the way it turned out because it’s just the way I wanted it to be. If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t change anything, except put a few more jokes in there.

Alright then,

See you

Back To My Future

Sam

Hello,

Recently in our PLP HCE course, we have had to think about our future life and career. We have also looked at our past, and how it has influenced what we want to do in the future. To get some insight on what we might be good at or interested in for a future job, we did some quick career quizzes on a Work BC website. Here are my results to what information I submitted:

So, it was obvious from the quizzes and what I like doing, I would most likely do a hands-on construction-type of career, or a design type of career, which I wouldn’t mind. After the quizzes, I also needed to make a timeline of my life from when I was born to this assignment, and include a few main events. Here it is:

The main events I included were, my birth, on September 25, 2002, going to kindergarten for the first time, breaking my arm at the end of kindergarten, learning to ride my bike later on, and then a few years later getting goats and donkeys! We actually had two goats and two miniature donkeys on our three acre land when we lived in Alberta. Next on my timeline is completing elementary school in Alberta, then moving to Vancouver at the end of grade 6. This was both good and bad at the time, but in the end it turned out well. Then on my timeline next comes making new friends in Vancouver, and then going into Seycove for the first time, and the last event on the list, this assignment!

Anyways that’s my timeline.
Then now that we have thought about our past and our future, we were instructed to make a fantasy video that talks about our past, but also fantasizes about our future. What I said about my future was more realistic in that I think that I can capture my goals if I work hard. I definitely could have made it a bit more far out, and even more funny. But, since I loved to build as a child I knew that I wanted to do something very hands on for my career, so a carpenter is a great option for me. Anyways, I’ll stop talking and let you watch my video:

I made this video in iMovie using lots of images from the web, and a few from my own photo albums. Overall I enjoyed this project, looking at my past and thinking about my future, and then putting it into a good quality video.