Well it reached that time of year, much to my excitement and annoyance. For me the exhibition meant two things excitement and annoyance because this exhibition means that it is almost the end of the school year and i will get to go on summer break soon, but it also means that some of my class periods that might be used for work so that is always annoying for me because it means that i get less time to work on other things and i have to stay at school way later than any one in their sane mind who does not work at the school would want to stay at the school. It also meant a lot of perpetration and not stress but an expiration that everything has to be perfect and this is a part of the exhibition that i have never been to fond about.

We were put into different groups for the exhibition with the grade nines and the group that i was put in was called tech for learning. Th groups that we were put int were based on what we did/do well in at school and apparently i do well with techonology

Anyways the grade nine planned the presentations and the grade eights and nines build all of the decorations and set up the room for the exhibition. We also presented a project that we though we had used technology really well in and the project that i chose was chemistry coding, if you want to see anything about that project than you can go to my blog post about it on my blog.

The main thing that a lot of the grade nines worked on was making cookies and cool aide for the people coming to the exhibition. So that is what we did for the exhibition yada yada yada bye

So the last project that i did in scimatics for the year is this project is called comic cells. The point of this project was to learn about bacteria viruses infections diseases and the like. So way this project was formatted where we learned about cells the two different types and those are: eukaryotic And prokaryotic cells. So we learned about feels what they have what the different kind of cells were like and we watched the movie osmoses jones. After this we had to make a disease wanted poster. After this we had to chose something to do our comic on something, and the thing that i chose to do my comic on was the virus polio. Once we had done research on our topic we then made a story board and once we had done this we then made our comic in the app comic life three. That is the story of this project. You can view my project at the bottom.

Curricular competency number one: Questioning and predicting: Demonstrate a sustained curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest. i think that i did good here because i used my class time for learning here.

Curricular competency number two: Scientific communication: communicate ideas, findings, and solutions to problems using scientific language, representations, and digital technologies. I think that i did good here because i used scientific lingo

Curricular competency number three: Evaluating: Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of evidence. I didn’t do so well here because i have the scientific concepts but i did not do very well when it came to showing cell interactions.

So anyways that is what we did for this project thank you for reading i guess.

Do you want to know how i made this?  Then keep reading and you will hear about how i made this and what i did in this school project.

The title of this school project was new beginnings, and the driving question of this project is: what did the establishment of New France mean for everyone involved. So this project was about the founding of New France, colonialisation and the fur trade and what it meant for First Nations people. What we had to do in this project was make a advertisement trying to get people to go to New France and help build a nation, but this kind of turned in to making a photo slider with one side being what it was advertised as to certain people and the other side was what it was like in New France. We were aloud to chose one of multiple groups of people to market it to. The group i chose were the hard and gritty, those who would help build the nation instead of for example Les Filles Du Roi (which translates to the kings girl for those of you who are fools and do not speak french).

The first activity that we did in this project was we a advertisement for our school to try to revitalize some of the things that we learning in the beginning of the year in our project: medium is the message. Some of the things that our teacher wanted us to remember were: how to use contrast, the rule of thirds how much text to put on the ad, where to get the find print and other things. I would put up some media of my ad, but that would reveal what school i go to and i am not going to put that out on the internet.

After this the next thing that we did was a photo walk outside as we wanted some outside photos. Once we had been outside and we had taken our photos we used them to create our first New France visual. We used keynote apps like keynote to edit our photos add contrast, change the colours and add symbols that kind of thing. This was helpful as it gave us a bit of an idea about what we would be doing for our final project. The symbols that we put on our second draft were important as they had to be symbols that represented key things about New France that would have been advertised in our ads.

The next important thing that we did was a peer critique for feed back that was supper helpful when it came to finishing our drafts so that we could put our images and make our photo slider. When we did out peer critiques we made sure to try to be as specific as possible so we could succeed in out projects. After the peer critique i made my photo slider that you saw at the top of this blog post.

And finally the part that you were all waiting for: how to make a photo slider like this. The first step is to go the website flourish (linked here) and make account. Step two is to find two photos that you want to slide together in the slider. The third step is in flourish you need to go the the photo slider part of the website. You then upload your two images and make the slider. Voila you’ve done it.

Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We will discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance for listening and for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.

In plp we have to do a Tpol and this is my Tpol. The point of out Tpol is to show how we have grown as a learner and why we should should go up to the next grade level, so for me that would be grade nine. The driving question of what i am going to present is why do i feel that i am ready to advance to the next grade level?

I feel like i am ready to move up to the next grade level because i have learned a multitude of things but i think i am also ready to move up to the next grade level because i have failed and made mistakes many times and in the plp and in real life we have to learn from our mistakes and as one of the plp’s favourite quotes state, we learn not from experience but from reflecting on experience. And some of the ways i have failed are in drafts, i have failed to hand things in on time and i have failed to meet criteria but this is important because i learn from these failures and by reflecting on them i grow as a learner. And example of how i failed was in my laser laws project in scimatics. In this project my final project was flawed in that i needed to make a certain kind of triangle but my craftmanship was not good enough to meet the expectations.

I will also reflect on humanites and scimatics, what i have done well in these subjects and what i think i can improve at and to better

In my humanites class i think that i could do better when i comes to having an open mind, i think i can give better feedback when it comes to a peer critique as i always find that i can not give as much feedback when it comes to everyone else so i think that i need to improve when i comes to this and this also goes for scimatics i think that i also need to get better at accepting that you need more that on draft to do things, as in the fact that i always do not want to do more drafts and i am always hesitant to admit that i need more than one draft. I also think that i need to take some better notes when it comes to lectures. My goals for humanities next year are: improve at peer critiques, have a more open mind to projects and hand all assignments in on time.

My goals for scimatics are: put more effort into the workbooks as i am almost always not putting in my all when it comes to workbooks, again have a more open mind when it comes to projects, remember to ask for help when/if i think that i am falling behind make sure to hand in all of the workbooks on time because i often find that i will finish them but i forget to hand them in and i hand them in an hour or two late, and do better on my mind-nodes because i think that i am always never doing enough when to comes to my project start and end mind-node. And finaly i think that i need to use my time better in that i am not always efficient so for example in the chemistry coding project i could have coded better and used a forever loop and that again comes to not asking for help and just trying to figure it out myself.

Topics that i would like to touch on. I also feel like i have demonstrated growth and maturity as a learned because i have had to do a lot more group work then i did in elementary school and because of this i have had to be able to listen to the opinion of others and make compromises and not always to something the way/s that envision doing it. Something that i have seen in some of my classmates doing is that they always remember to get the other people in the group to contribute and voice their opinion even if they’re are quite and would not normally speak up. What does my learning say about me was a learner? It says that i can make other’s voices heard, i don’t like or think that i do well when it comes to work with others but i still do okay and ways and that i some times need to do things more efficiently. 

An other reason why i think that i should move up to the next grade level is because i have struggled with projects and that has made me a little more mature as a learner and given me more expirince and taught me that you have to struggle and not everything comes easily. One such project hat i struggled with was my comic cells. In this project we reaserched about a disease, virus or bacteria. The virus that i chose to do was polio. There are a couple of reasons that i had trouble with this project. One of them was the fact that i sometimes had difficulty finding information about the virus and most places just talked about how not to catch the virus and what kind of vaccine worked against the virus but they did not always talk about the science behind this virus and they did not always tell you about how the virus spread through the body. An other thing that i had difficulty with in this project was the fact that i had to redo my comic halfway through because i did the speech bubbles first and then i did the art after but i found that the image boxes that i used were not the right sizes and i could not change the format of the images without changing the different type of panels. But to change the type of panels i would end up deleting the text that i had spend time doing so i had to redo all of the text that i had done so this took a long time i had to do the drawings that i had a lot of difficulty with because of my learning disability disgrafia so i had to suffer through all of the art and had a hard time doing this and the final thing that made this project really hard was the fact that i thought i had more time but halfway through the project i found out that some of our precious scimatics time way being taken by my humanites class to work on the stupid spring exibhtion but i went to tutorial for a couple of ways and i managed to get the project done on time that goodness.

My goals for grade nine are: improve upon my peer critique skills, ask for help when i need it not after when i was behind, make sure to have an open mind listen to feed back listen and be more  open to having to make more drafts and admitting that my first draft is not perfect