Hello, and welcome to what I think is the last day of the Student Blogging Challenge 2021. Today is a weird day, because I get to write about whatever I want!
Yes, i just embedded a meme. Anyways, without further ado, here is the post.
Since I feel like it, I am going to show some photoshop pictures I made, from wallpapers to neon images. (I am going to be using SuperimposeX, which is a paid software used for many things. I have used this software in a previous post, if you were wondering why it seemed familiar.
Here are two apps I made neon:
WordPress (what I am using now)MessagesBasecampAnd Showbie
Now, you might be thinking: “but what wallpaper am I going to use?” (You probably aren’t though.) Anyways, Here is a quick wallpaper I made:
Wallpaper
My friend has made a full Home Screen in this neon theme, (link to his blog here), I am going to show some things you could do with superimpose.
Here is a cool smoke effect I made using the distort and lights tools:
Red and white smoke
Here are the wallpapers I currently use:
“Poly”“Smoke”
Here is some clipart of a bottle (I don’t know why)
Science bottle!
And here are glowing shapes!
Glowing square things
I also did a photoshop challenge with my friends, and we had some pretty cool results!
My 2-minute photoshop challenge entry!Moon photoshop!Angel Graphic
Thanks for reading this weird post! I will make more photoshops, so stay tuned! See you next post.
Hello, and welcome to the summative post for the how it started/ how it is going project. The driving question for this project was: what can we learn from the past, and why does it matter to us today? To answer this question, we journeyed back through some of the most influential times history, travelled (virtually) to great museums, and finally, made a virtual museum all about worldview and historical events.
The project started with a mind map about museums and their specific features
Then we did milestone 1, which was a small museum exhibit representing your growth since the start of the year. I learned how to use many cool photo editing techniques like perspective shifting, light wraps, and more to do this. Our job in this milestone was to transform the idea of how it started/how it is going into a museum exhibit and provide evidence on my opinion. I believe I did this quite well, but if I did it again I would probably add a before/after comparison of my work as evidence. Click here for the PDF.
The second milestone was a collage of the important events in your life that shaped your worldview. To do this, we created a timeline of the important events in our lives, found or made pictures to represent those events, and created a collage of the images. This collage would later be revised and changed, and eventually become our “about me” at the start of the museum.
Then, we started milestone three: the history test. This was just one extremely hard question that made me (and some others) realize how little we knew (yet). This milestone made me realize the historical significance of the events I talked about, and decide which ones were the most significant.
We also did many, many other things to prepare for the museum launch, like an artist statement, script for the guided tour, the whole virtual museum, the final meme, a recorded artist statement, and a script for the zoom presentation. After all of that, we finally were ready to present the virtual museum to the world. In this virtual museum, we created modern artworks to represent our modern views of the themes in the older artwork, to show how much we have changed since then.
And with that, the driving question is answered: we can learn a lot front the past, and it matters today so we can learn and improve humanity by looking to the past.
Thank you for reading all the way down here! Of you want to see some of my group members veiw on the project (see what I did there?), click on one of the links below
Hello, and welcome. Today is the 7th day of the Student Blogging Challenge 2021, and the last day isn’t even based on words. No, it is based on a random emoji generator! So here is the story:
🚉 Everyday, the train would do what it has done for 46 years; go between two stations.
😵 but one day, a passenger boards the train illegally to escape the police.
🚦 because of that, the train locked all of its doors and stopped moving.
🐨 because of that, the koala onboard was actually helping the crook!
🏁 because of that, the train goes as fast as he can to the next station
🍔 until finally, the police arrest the koala and criminal.
The End
I hope you enjoyed my story, and until then, see you next time!
Hello! This post is day 6 of the 2020 Student Blogging Challenge, and today we are doing a post on music! I love to listen to music, and I can play guitar decently. And without further ado, here is the post.
Record Guitars
all hail the biggest of them all! In January, 2001, the largest playable acoustic guitar was created: measuring 16.75m long, 7.57m wide and 2.67m deep, and weighs four tons. The instrument was built in Porto, Portugal. This record still stands today. source here.
Running down the scale of size works too, clearly, or else why make a guitar smaller than as human hair? Yes, you heard me right, this tiny guitar measures ten micrometres long – 1/20 the thickness of human hair! It can only be played by using lasers to move the strings, and makes sounds at frequencies human can’t even hear.
Minuscule or massive, we must pay respect to our elders. And the oldest and first guitar ever, owned by an artist known as Har-Mose, in ancient Egypt is no exeption. The guitar had three strings and was made of two pieces of wood, with no ability to tune it.
Survey
On that topic, I also made a survey about music Here.
This art represents the values aspect of worldview because of how I value logic and, like most people, organization (some people just don’t have enough time or effort to spend on it). And organization, at its core, is just looking for patterns and finding them consistently.
In this picture, the lines become more uniform as they go to the right side of the page, showing how my brain analyzes what it sees to find patterns.
Creation
To make this, I used the app SuperimposeX, which is a paid software used for photo editing, art, and much more. For people like me, who don’t currently have a steady hand for drawing, this app can help me make art in a different way. The link to this app is Here.
The way I created the lines was by putting each line on a different layer, adding a swirl effect on each layer, the amount decreasing with each line until I just drew a straight line. Then, I added a darkening gradient across the screen and randomized the thickness of each line. Finally, I merged all the layers except the last two and added a small ripple effect to add a bit more randomness to the non-straight lines
Process
The final product you see above was not the first one however, so here are the other takes:
This one was just a test to see if I could use the warp tool to manually bend the shapes. (Spoiler, I couldn’t.)
In this piece, I decided the shapes looked to random and didn’t have clear progression to uniformity
These are the two individual pieces that weren’t any part of the final product. (After each was made, I restarted on a blank canvas.)
Hello, and welcome to anotherblog post. In this post I am going to show all I have learned throughout the laser laws project. First, I’ll start with the driving question: how can I test Pythagorean theorem and the law of reflection. There are many ways to test this, but first we had to build our knowledge on the subject by completing worksheets and doing cool science experiments. For example, at the start of the project we played laser tag, were there are two teams and they both try to shoot the other team’s target with their laser, while protecting their own. There was not to much to be learned from this activity, but it was a fun intro to the law of reflection. After that we did a project start mind map:
Project start mind map
And along the way, I added to the question section, and also answered them all in another mind map at the end of the project:
While mind maps are all fun and good, though, we still haven’t actually tested the law of reflection or Pythagorean theorem. We did a small workbook to get up to speed, and then did a really cool experiment about the wave model of light. Here is the experiment:
in the waves lab, I learned a lot about the nature of light, and how there are multiple models that can be used to define it. We were then split into groups, then did an experiment on Pythagorean theorem. In My groups’s experiment, we tested to see if you can use Pythagorean theorem to get the values of the two legs with only the hypotenuse. The answer was no, but if you know that the legs are the same you can do it.
This is the expirement
In my second milestone, we did a khan academy test to check our understanding. Our third milestone was yet another experiment, this time testing if the law of reflection can be used to make shapes.
After this, we started on milestone four, the design for our laser triangle. This design may or may not be used as the final design, but it is a crucial step nonetheless. There were three revisions of this, but here is the final one:
Final experiment
Then, it was time for the final design. The groups started to set up the mirrors, prepare the laser circuits, and do all-around finishing touches.
Then all the groups set up their projects near the smoke machine, then we all got really cool views of our work coming together.
This is the final laser display!
I overall learned a ton from this project, from how to measure est sides of a triangle to the different models of light
And, finally, the curricular competencies:
The first of three, questioning and predicting, is about ‘‘Demonstrating a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest’’ I think that I did this quite well, as I was on task and very interested in the class.
In the second, Questioning and predicting, you must ‘‘Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest’’, and I did well in this, because i had so many questions about the law of reflection and Pythagorean theorem. Luckily, google search, textbooks, and class resources exist.
The last but not least competency is applying and innovating: cooperatively design projects. I believe I did this well because our group got along well and our final product checked all boxes
And, the answer to the driving question: out of the many ways you could test the law of reflection, by far the simplest is to just grab a mirror and shine a laser on it in a dark room, and take a picture and measure the angles in it. To test the Pythagorean theorem, you could draw right triangles with random side lengths, then use Pythagorean theorem to solve for the missing edge. Then, check your answer using a ruler or, the measure app.
Hello, and welcome to anotherblog post! In this project, the driving question was: how are thematic and mathematical elements used in board games?
The answer to this is: they can add a touch of realism, role playing, or just a cool element to your game. Thematic and mathematical elements can and are used in board games all the time, for example: chess; which uses medieval figures to add a slight bit of logic and realism to the game, which helps connect players to the game a bit more. In other versions of chess, they use other themes to make the game more applicable to different audiences. Or in games like pandemic: contagion, where tons of different chances are balanced to create a fun and diverse game.
Anyway, to get this answer, we had to do many activities, like learning about tectonic plates in order to make a game about them, doing a mind map, listing the scientific elements they will be in our game, and finally making actual game rules and a playable game and presenting them to other groups in the best way: playing them!
The first thing we did was make some rough game rules (which, in my group, weren’t used later on) on whiteboards.
Here is the first iteration of our game rulesThis was the original mind map, but my game was changed a lot later
And, as with each project, there were curricular competencies that everyone strived for.
The first: evaluating; demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of evidence. in the criteria for this competency, it states that there should be evidence of 10 key science concepts in your game, and game pieces should visually represent tectonic concepts. I think I this because my game had 10 science concepts: convection currents, mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, earthquakes, ridge push, subduction, reverse faults, normal faults, and strike-slip faults. Speaking of which, click here for said game rules.
Onto the second competency, questioning and predicting. I think I used most of my class time efficiently and well, because I finished all work on time and did most of it in class. I also handed in first drafts of my work early for feedback.
The third competency, understanding and solving, is all about demonstrating understanding of mathematical concepts through play, inquiry, and problem solving. I think I did this because my game has lots of probability that is calculated at the end of the rules. At the end of my rules, there are multiple probabilities calculated correctly, and there are examples of turn outcomes stated.
In the project “the medium is the message”, 8the driving question was: how does what we see, hear, and read influence us. The answer to this question is that it influences us by delivering a message to us, the audience, through any medium, wether its social media, a blog, or even a paper.
I learned this through a progression through many projects, which aren’t mentioned here. The first one , though, I will talk about.
This is a link to the first thing I did this project, in which we were tasked with analyzing a commercial by Apple, called Welcome Home. this milestone practiced comprehending texts. Over time, we did many activities that were very similar to this. One was about a book called The Gospel According To Larry. This is a book about the influence of media and message on an audience (sound familiar?). We did sheets about the book everybody week for a while until we finished the book. All of the activities we did focused on an individual competency, like taking historical perspective, practiced by milestones 2 and 3, or designing texts, innovative designer, and creative communicator. Finally, we finished our advertisements for a business, and gave them to the business.
Throughout this project, each piece of progress was defined by the competency it assessed. These were rated by weather, a ☁️ being the worst, and a 🌈 being the best. In all of the projects, except one, I got a ☀️, the symbol below the rainbow. I think that I now know how what I see, hear. And read influences me and others
