Category: Maker

Canadian Identity and 9/11

Published by adamgi on October 30, 2024

Planes landing, Gander International Airport, September 11, 2001 The world is a scary place. Less than 8% of people live in a full democracy, authoritarianism and fascism are gaining popularity in powerful countries, the climate is changing, World War III looms, and America faces a hard decision: elect a far right criminal or elect a woman. It’s a tough one to be sure. But we have it pretty good in Canada, with a full democracy,…

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Engineer, More Like… Engi…Far?

Published by adamgi on March 15, 2024

Are you engaged in medieval warfare? Are you sieging a castle but you just can’t knock those darn walls down? Well, have I got the program for you! It’s called Destination Imagination! DI is a worldwide event in which unsuspecting children compete to see which group can come up with the most innovative solution. Every year, there are a few challenges to choose from: engineering, fine arts, technical, and science. This year, I chose engineering,…

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To The Moaning And The Groaning Of The Bells

Published by adamgi on December 13, 2023

“In the end, the greatest snowball isn’t a snowball at all. It’s fear. Merry Christmas.”-Dwight Schrute, The Office It almost the holiday season! The happiest time of the year where nothing ever goes wrong and nothing scary ever happens. The perfect time to make a thriller! Also, I am under your bed. Now, you might be wondering, “Adam, what the heck is a thriller?” Hold your horses, I’ll tell you. A thriller is generally classified…

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Taking My Dad To Work

Published by adamgi on November 8, 2023

Reading the future. Sounds pretty cool, right? Also sounds like something a wizard would do! Well, did you know that there is an actual viable career in which you do that? A few days ago was Take Your Kids To Work Day, so I went to Environment And Climate Change Canada where my dad works as a meteorologist. In the Environment Canada building, there were two sections that we toured: the Environmental Protection Agency and…

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Run(ning Away From Monsters)!

Published by adamgi on November 1, 2023

Hi! Recently in Maker, we were given the opportunity to create a remake of the short film “Run!” Here’s the original: The original follows a jogger on a trail, who is being chased by a monster. The original uses a variety of sounds and angles to portray emotions and create suspense. To remake this film we learned about how to use angles and sounds to make a more immersive experience. For this project, we worked…

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Just Call Me Steven Spielberg 🎥

Published by adamgi on October 12, 2023

Recently, PLP 9 went on a field school to the Rocky Mountains. It was amazing! Seeing all the nature and wildlife, it inspired me to go back to school to answer our driving question of “How might I use the moving image to tell a story.” Silent Film This film was filmed at the Three-Valley Gap ghost town. By making this video, I learned how to plan a video in advance by using…

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A Nice Book To Read

Published by adamgi on January 21, 2023

Hello! I made a book about a project in Maker about Sketch Pro. We learned lots of things about sketching on the iPad, like learning how to use stencils or using 3d shapes. It was really fun and interesting to make the book. It’s a pretty short book, not too long of a read. I hope you enjoy! Our Journey in Sketches Pro Click to read this book, made with Book Creator https://read.bookcreator.com

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PLP Winter Exhibition: Why So Blue :(

Published by adamgi on January 1, 2023

The Winter Exhibition Twice every year, we have an exhibition were we get to showcase our learning. At exhibitions, we have a different theme; this year it was Avatar. The driving question was “What does James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ reveal about our own society?” Here is the process of our project and the winter exhibition. The Project For the grade 8 project, we made a theme box to represent a theme present in Avatar. I chose…

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My Photo Journey

Published by adamgi on November 26, 2022

In the latest Maker mini project, we learned how to take photos with our IPads and learned about different techniques to make them better. After that, we had to put them into a Keynote that we put into a blog post. Mine is here: Now, we have to decide what the 3 most useful skills that we learned were! I think that the 3 most useful skills I learned from taking these pictures were: editing…

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Am I a PLP learner?

Published by adamgi on November 3, 2022

To satisfy the PLP teachers, we must make a post on blogs definitively PROVING that we are PLP learners. I’m not sure what they will do if the deem us not PLP learners, since we are currently in the program with the iPads, Apple Pencils, and cases that they wanted us to buy. In this post, we will look back and reflect on our learning we did in September and early October. First, lets take a…

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