Hi! Welcome back to my blog!

The last few weeks in maker 8 we have been learning how to make better art using Sketches pro. This has been a really fun project and the end result is a book of art created by yours truly! Here it is!

Thank you so much for reading my blog post, and now my book of art!

-Ailie 💜

The last few months we have been working on our power play projects. These projects consisted of a few steps, learning all of the information we needed to know on the topic, exploring the topic a little more on our own, and finally making a presentation on the topic. We made slideshows filled with information about our topics, I used canva for my presentation. Here’s some of the information that was in them. 

The topic we learned about was life in the Middle Ages with the smaller included topics of the feudal system and the crusades. The feudal system consisted of 6 classes. The king, the nobles, the knights, the merchants and the peasants. The 6th class was the church who basically sat back and watched. How did it work, well lord has land, a vassal is a person who was given the land by the lord, the land was known as fief. In exchange for the land, the vassal has to work for the lord. The king usually gives land to the nobility to recant the land to the peasants. 

The crusades were an interesting topic to learn about. They were a series of nine religious wars that happened over two centuries in the medieval period. Start date: 1095 End date: 129. The wars were between the two main religions at the time, the Christians and the Muslims. The wars were a fight over Jerusalem, which is the holy land of both religions. They concluded with the victory of the Muslims and many lost lives. 

Thank you so much for reading this post about the Middle Ages! 

– Ailie 💜

This winter exhibition was my first one! It was really fun to execute. 

The theme of the whole exhibition was the movie Avatar. The movie is about the planet of Pandora and the Na’vi creatures that live on it. Because the planet’s air is poisonous, human/Na’vi hybrids, called Avatars, must link to human minds to allow for free movement on Pandora. They are created by the humans who take refuge on the planet. Jake Sully, a former Marine who has paralyzed legs, becomes mobile again through one such Avatar and falls in love with a Na’vi woman. While he is on a mission to learn what the Na’vi want in exchange for the Unattainable, a precious stone worth millions of dollars that is abundant on their land. As a bond with her grows, he is drawn into a battle for the survival of her world. 

In preparation we watched this movie, so that we could execute our theme. 

The exhibition was chaotic and tightly scheduled. From 3:00 to 5:30 all PLP students decorated the rooms we were assigned. With the room, we were also assigned a theme. The theme of my room was abandoned planet. From 5:30 to 7:30 the exhibition was on. We stood by our projects that we had worked on over a few weeks before the exhibition. The use of our boxes was to portray our theme statements. Mine was: Often times, us humans may ignore the deep connections that we have with nature, and destroy it to satisfy our own needs. Finally we did clean up from 7:30 to 8:30. 

Here is a picture of my box.

Thank you for reading my blog post!

-Ailie💜

Photography is a meaningful and intellectual activity. You have to be able to look at a scene and think about what angle, what emotion and what filter can be used to bring out the true creation of the photo. I can use the photos I take to portray my emotions, and really tell a story. 

Three skills I found the most useful were, the adjusting angles lesson, where we learned about the different views you can take a photo from. If you put your device on the ground you can stand over it and that’s a worms eye view angle. If the subject in your photos for example, is going down the stairs you can take a picture of them from above. Long view is where you take a picture of the subject with an effective background. There are a lot more interesting angles to use. Using filters is a useful way to bring out an emotion in a picture. Playing with the lighting in a picture can really make parts of it pop! 

Thanks for reading my blog!

-Ailie💜

Hi my name is Ailie and I am a student in the PLP program at Seycove. Here are some of the cool projects that have helped me become a better learner in PLP.

Wordpack:

The Wordpack was one of the easiest activities, I just had to write down my attributes, or the things I am. Here is the list of things I wrote down:

Artist

Writer

Sister

Daughter 

Harry-Potter-fan 

Cousin

Niece 

Harpist 

Soccer-Player 

Sporty 

Singer 

Student 

Percussionist 

Friend 

Creative 

Canadian 

Scottish 

Musician 

Cat-person 

Small 

Sushi-Lover

Short  

All of those describe me.

Digital Selfie:

I loved the digital selfie because I love to take pictures and what better to take pictures of, but the things that you love. So, obviously I took a picture of my friends, and wrote, I am a friend! 

Laptop MeMoji:

This was by far my favourite project in PLP, so far. I got to apply my personality to my Memoji, and Memoji laptop. I included my favourite things, soccer, avocados, drums, art, harp, books, sushi, flowers, and cats!

User Manual: 

I loved the user manual activity, one of my favourite things is writing. Writing in third person was definitely interesting, I usually write more in poetic, or essay form. It was still really fun and brought out my personality.

 Dream board:

My favourite thing I did on my dream board was draw things! I loved to draw, and insert things I wish to have in the future. Achieving my goals and dreams are important to me. 

 YouTube channel:

The YouTube channel logo was my favourite part of making a mock YouTube channel. The channel that I made is called the Artzy ailie channel, to showcase that I love art! 

 I am a PLP learner who strives to do my best, and put as much effort as I can into the work I do!

Thanks for reading this blog post, I am certain that I will post more soon!

-Ailie💜 

Welcome to my blog!

I’m obsessed with cats.
I love my friends (just as much). And I adore high school. I hate red sauce and negativity and fights.

Just remember everyone, go for it! No matter what, whatever you want to do you can succeed.

-Ailie 💜