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The Story Behind my Artwork!

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The Story Behind my Artwork!

By: Brooklyn

Art and Explanation

 

For my artwork the criteria was to find artwork which represented geography, time, society, values, beliefs, economy and knowledge during Medieval times and incorporate myself into it. I was alIowed to find artwork online or use the ones I had already found and explained in my Artwork Choice Chart that I had created in a previous assignment. I decided to use the art from the Artwork Choice Chart and placed the images into a PLP app called SuperimposeX. This was much more challenging than you would think because I needed to combine all these pieces of artwork together while still making my own personal image the primary focus. By layering, erasing, smudging and masking the photos I was able to blend my artworks together in a way that looked cohesive and made sense.


 

The Process I Went Through to Understand the Learning and Create the Product



As I worked through this project, I learned how to operate SuperImposeX, and all the functions it had to offer. In class we watched a tutorial on how to use all the basic functions of this app and I had the teacher and classmates to help me if there was something I didn’t understand. Throughout this project I learned more about  medieval artwork and how it connects to my worldview.

 

Reflect on How I was Proficient 



I believe I demonstrated a number of qualities in my artwork that showed my proficiency. For example, in the “processing” part of this project I made notes in class about the historical information being shared. This helped me deepen my understanding about Medieval times as the project progressed. In addition to this my in class learning and participation showed that I can successfully communicate and collaborate with my classmates when needed. Throughout the making of my artwork I have reflected and revised my initial artwork, deepening my understanding of what proficiency looks like. By making my artwork, I got the chance to get a better understanding of how worldview can be recognized in medieval art, as well as further reflecting on myself as a high school student.


Paragraph to Explain my Art


By knowing about the medieval times and how it connects today, I can learn a lot about how it relates to me and realize how fortunate I am to live in the society I do. Learning from the past is very important because it helps me understand where we come from and why things are the way they are today. By studying history, I can learn from the successes and mistakes of those who came before us. It gives me valuable insights into different cultures, societies, and events that have shaped our world. Three important aspects of the past that have positively changed in today’s world are women’s rights, understanding of geography, and beliefs.

 

 In the Medieval times, society acted very poorly to one another, especially women. For example women and girls were sold or married off at extremely young ages. They had no consent or control over this whatsoever.  I am very lucky to live how I do now because of women’s rights specifically, and also human rights in general have gotten a lot better. I have opinions about my future that are recognized and heard. My future is determined by me, and me alone. 

 

Secondly, in the time we live in now our knowledge of geography has become increasingly better than in the Medieval times. For example, we know that sea monsters and things of that sort don’t exist. This was a key factor that stopped people in Medieval times from exploring the world as much as they could have. We now know about weather patterns and cause and effect for many events that can take place.

 

Finally, although many people now still have strong beliefs, such as in Christianity, our approach to beliefs is very different. I am allowed to be a part of any religion, or none at all, without punishment. I feel very safe knowing that I am allowed to express my opinions without having such severe consequences. Today’s world allows for more free thinking and acceptance. 

 

Throughout this assignment, I’ve learned a lot about the past and how it applies to me today. I know my life is much better than what it would have been if I lived in the Medieval times. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This quote is most likely written by writer and philosopher George Santayana. Our world would be much different now if no one had spoken up for what was right.

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Becoming a PLP Learner, Reflective Blog Post

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Reflective Blog Post

By: Brooklyn

Introduction

Recently my classmates and I completed a big project in PLP, Maker. Our task was to make a powerpoint in Keynote about our PLP journey so far. The driving question for this was, “who am I as a PLP learner?” Let’s get started!

My Reflection

For my reflection I will be splitting it into five parts, my WordPack, I Am Photo, Highlighted Work and the parts that worked well and didn’t work well.

 

My WordPack

My WordPack and I am photo (which I will talk about later) I would say was an easier portion of this project. Using a PLP app we combined a list of words that best described our self, and the app put it into a shape of your

choice as well as a font and colour of your choice.

 

 

I Am Photo

For my I Am Photo I decided on something that I am, for example “I am a hockey player.” Instead of a hockey player though, I did it about my love for K-pop. In a quick summary I took a photo of me beside k-pop related merchandise and with my Apple Pencil, doodled some  related images on it.

 

                      My Highlighted Work

                        (aka my Nike shoe)

For my highlighted work I learned many functions of Keynote and how it operated. Some of the tools I learned, I wasn’t even aware existed! For example I was given a template of a Nike shoe to colour. This piece of the project was meant to help us learn more about how Keynote works and to encourage us to play around with the functions it had to offer. I chose colours from the pink and burgundy spectrum for my Nike shoe because they looked good together which is funny as I don’t even like the colour pink. This process allowed me to discover how Keynote functions worked  and expand my knowledge of the PLP apps.

 

The Parts that Worked Well/What Didn’t

The title explains it pretty well as to what I’m going to be talking about, so let’s get right into it!

What Worked Well (something I’m proud of)

First off I’ll talk about what worked well in my project. I would say there are a number of things in the keynote presentation that turned out well, but for the sake of your insanity I’ll only talk about two.

What Worked Well, My Me Emoji

The first one I’m going to talk about is my Me-Emoji. As a class we created an emoji, also known as the “Me-Emoji”, to look like us. Then we used the Me-Emoji emote to make our character hold an iPad, therefore incorporating the aspect of PLP. The next step I took was importing images onto my characters iPad, as well as taking away the background so they looked like stickers. Lastly I animated the “stickers” to add an aesthetic touch to my  presentation.

What Worked Well, My Settings

For this portion of my project I talked about my three settings. Radical friend, Student, and Fish Amphibian and Reptile Obsessive. These three settings were really fun to make, especially  because I had the freedom to add a lot of  humour to it.    

 

What Didn’t Work Well

I wouldn’t say there was a certain part of my project that was a total fail but as I was looking over my Keynote presentation something caught my eye. I’m well aware I just mentioned how much I liked my Me-Emoji, (which I still do) but the resolution was quite poor. This was because I screen recorded my Me-Emoji (since it had animation features) unfortunately due to this the overall product didn’t look quite as pretty as it could have. It’s not the end of the world but it’s definitely something that could have been better.

 

Conclusion

In conclusion, I think I learned a lot In this project, and it was a lot of fun to make. In addition to this, I also believe reflecting is one of the most important part of a project, to notice what you could improve on and giving yourself credit for what you did well is a really good life skill to have. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed reading my reflection!

   

 

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Stay Gold, World

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Stay Gold, World

BY: BROOKLYN

Hello world! Thanks for checking out my blog. These past few weeks have been pretty crazy. Almost just as crazy as going into high school  as a grade 8! For this project we did everything from reading the Outsiders book to writing AND singing a song! Sounds pretty nerve wracking right? Well let me take you through how I did this whole project. lets get started! 

The Outsiders Book

At the very beginning of this project our assignment was to read the Outsiders book. Every week we completed a role sheet based on the section of the book we completed. Sometimes I had some trouble understanding what to do but after asking some questions everything became radically clear. Outsiders was a great book to read becuase it taught me a lot about others worldview, as well as my own. I believe this is why we read this book in the first place.  

 

This book consisted of 224 pages and was definitely not a bad read! It had a good format and writing style that made me want to keep on reading.

 

Things we Did Along the Way!

My Worldview MindNode 

I’v noticed that a lot of our assignments within this project have connected back to my worldview. My MindNode is just one example. 

Here I will show you what the success criteria was for this project, then what my MindNode looked like once I’d finished it. 

 

What I did here is make something very similar to a mind map. I had many different sections, for example geography and the Internet, but everything connected back to MY worldview. I learned about my opinions  for subjects I had never even thought about! I’m going to be saying this a lot, but I did this project to learn more about worldview, specifically my worldview.  

 

(Apart of Things we Did Along the Way)

Western Worldview Group Meme

At lot of the assignments in this project, for example this meme, I feel weren’t the biggest portion of the project but mainly just there to show my learning and understanding as we progressed in “It’s the End of the World as we Know it.” For this assignment I needed to make a meme about western worldview.

 

 

 

 

Song+Video
Creating Its the End of the World Song Lyrics

 

You may have listened to the song “It’s the of the World as we Know it” by R.E.M. If you listen to my groups version of this you might notice some similarities! Incase you’re interested in checking out my groups video, click here.

Our task for making the song at first was an individual project. I needed to Change the lyrics of the original song, keeping the same beat and flow. Keep in mind I had never done this before, so this was a totally new experience that I needed to learn how to do along the way! I couldn’t just make it any old lyrics though! It need to be about MY worldview. Once I was satisfied with what I had come up with, my group members and I    combined all our lyrics so the final song could be about ALL our worldviews! 

 

Making the Video

Now, making the video for this song wasn’t that hard but it did take a while. My group members and I had to do some trouble shooting when things wouldn’t work out how they needed to, in the end though everything came together. To match the lyrics of the song, we all needed to find photos of us that connected to it.

What I Learned

I learned so much while creating the song and video. First off, I learned how to work Garage Band, which I have never used before. We used Garage Band to sing and create our music video. More importantly though, I learned how to write, sing, create and post a song!

Conclusion 

In conclusion,I learned many new skills throughout this PLP project and many of them I can continue to use later on in my PLP journey. Even though there were some hard parts, I ended up using problem solving skills to work through them, coming up with results I’m very proud of. At the very beginning of this project I had absolutely no idea what my worldview was, and to be honest, I didn’t really know what that meant! Now that we have reached the ending of this project I can confidently share my worldview with others as well as understand what worldview means. 

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A Deep Dive into My Journey of Reflection!

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Reflective Blog Post

By: Brooklyn

 

This is my Keynote YouTube video I made, you can check it out here!

 

Introduction

Recently my classmates and I completed a big project in PLP, Maker. Our task was to make a powerpoint in Keynote about our PLP journey so far. The driving question for this was, “who am I as a PLP learner?” Let’s get started!

My Reflection

For my reflection I will be splitting it into five parts, my WordPack, I Am Photo, Highlighted Work and the parts that worked well and didn’t work well.

 

My WordPack

My WordPack and I am photo (which I will talk about later) I would say was an easier portion of this project. Using a PLP app we combined a list of words that best described our self, and the app put it into a shape of your choice as well as a font and colour of your choice.

 

I Am Photo

For my I Am Photo I decided on something that I am, for example “I am a hockey player.” Instead of a hockey player though, I did it about my love for K-pop. In a quick summary I took a photo of me beside k-pop related merchandise and with my Apple Pencil, doodled some  related images on it. This photo show a part of who I am, bring us back to the driving question, “Who Am I as a PLP Learner?”

 

                      My Highlighted Work

                        (aka my Nike shoe)

For my highlighted work I learned many functions of Keynote and how it operated. Some of the tools I learned, I wasn’t even aware existed! For example I was given a template of a Nike shoe to colour. This piece of the project was meant to help us learn more about how Keynote works and to encourage us to play around with the functions it had to offer. I chose colours from the pink and burgundy spectrum for my Nike shoe because they looked good together which is funny as I don’t even like the colour pink. This process allowed me to discover how Keynote functions worked  and expand my knowledge of the PLP apps. 

 

 

The Parts that Worked Well/What Didn’t 

The title explains it pretty well as to what I’m going to be talking about, so let’s get right into it!

What Worked Well (something I’m proud of)

First off I’ll talk about what worked well in my project. I would say there are a number of things in the keynote presentation that turned out well, but for the sake of your insanity I’ll only talk about two.

What Worked Well, My Me Emoji 

 The first one I’m going to talk about is my Me-Emoji. As a class we created an emoji, also known as the “Me-Emoji”, to look like us. Then we used the Me-Emoji emote to make our character hold an iPad, therefore incorporating the aspect of PLP. The next step I took was importing images onto my characters iPad, as well as taking away the background so they looked like stickers. Lastly I animated the “stickers” to add an interactive part to my  presentation. I feel this project brings me back again, “Who Am I as a PLP Learner?” All of these stickers represent who I am, in addition to my Me-Emoji that looks like me.

 

What Worked Well, My Settings

For this portion of my project I talked about my three settings. Radical friend, Student, and Fish Amphibian and Reptile Obsessive. For those of you that don’t know, my “settings” are parts of me you will most often encounter. For example who I am as a student or who I am as a friend. These three settings were really fun to make, especially  because I had the freedom to add a lot of  humour to it. Without giving much thought to this, you can tell it incorporates PLP by adding illustrations, effects and my Me-Emoji. 

 

What Didn’t Work Well

I wouldn’t say there was a certain part of my project that was a total fail but as I was looking over my Keynote presentation something caught my eye. I’m well aware I just mentioned how much I liked my Me-Emoji, (which I still do) but the resolution was quite poor. This was because I screen recorded my Me-Emoji (since it had animation features) unfortunately due to this the overall product didn’t look quite as pretty as it could have. It’s not the end of the world but it’s definitely something that could have been better. If I were to revise this I would definitely find a better way to make the resolution better.

 

Conclusion 

In conclusion, I think I learned a lot In this project, and it was a lot of fun to make. In addition to this, I also believe reflecting is one of the most important part of a project, to notice what you could improve on and giving yourself credit for what you did well is a really good life skill to have. Thanks so much for reading about my my post, and if you haven’t already  checked out my About Me page, I’ll link it right here!

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