Month: March 2024

For this Humanities 8 project, we were tasked with making an augmented reality, or A.R. movie that uses storytelling to investigate what sparked global exploration and understand its impact on society.I came up with the story to show how a European/White person’s perspective can and should be shifted by hearing an indigenous person’s perspective. If Mary’s goat hadn’t wandered away into the Indigenous camp, she might not have learned their story. She might have continued to tell the same false story that was told to her.

I wrote a story about a girl named Mary who journeys away from home and learns the Indigenous peoples’ side of a story that she had been told by her family.

I worked with the app Sketches Pro to design the pictures and characters, using different styles, colours, and other aesthetic choices to make my drawings. One of my favourite elements is that the second and fourth drawings both have the exact same base but one shows Indigenous people as evil and inhuman, and one shows them as kind, normal people. I created this contrast by adding different small facial features and details like devil horns and hearts.

Of course, mine and many other peoples’ favourite part of my story is the goat. He is a three-legged goat that was a gift from Marys uncle to her for her 8th birthday. Mary named him ‘Trii’ and we all instantly  fell in love.

We also used the app AR Makr to put together our scenes for the story with Augmented Reality/3D effects. I really like making videos and editing them so I enjoyed making this part of the project and learning how to use a new app. I found the augmented reality part very cool and fun to work with.

There are so many hi-lights of this project. We got pirate packs, and learned about colonization. Throughout our time working on this project I learned many things. I learned more about the history of colonization in Canada and the consequences for all people living during that time and today. (From Smallpox and greed to Bevers and loss of culture)I think it is so interesting to think about what drove people to do things, and the long term effects. I also learned how to use new apps like AR Makr and how technologies like this can be used to tell an impactful story.

I wast able to add in my AR Movie, but I am working on a way to add it in- come back soon to see the finished  product!

 

On March second, 2024, we had our very first Destination Imagination tournament, and not everything went to plan…

So what is Destination Imagination? Destination Imagination, or DI as we like to call it, is a school program where teams are asked to solve a problem or create something according to specific rules and details, and then compete against other teams to win. Points are awarded for aesthetics, creativity and how successful your machine is.

In our Destination Imagination tournament, a lot of things happened, both good and bad. We did great in the Instant challenge, worked great as a team, and just had an overall awesome time! We all did great and helped out the team in our own way.

During our Destination Imagination tournament, many things happened, both expected ad unexpected, and both good and bad. We did really well in the Instant Challenge and I feel that we worked great as a team. We also had an overall awesome time! We all worked hard leading up to the tournament and were proud of how everything turned out. I feel like everyone in our group helped the team in their own way.

Of course, not everything was perfect and we had some issues we should work on. We need to do some more work on our script. We should make it longer, flesh out some details and overall we need to improve it. We also need to be better prepared for our Instant Challenge. We should be more open to everyone’s ideas, and we need to work on our teamwork. I’m proud of winning third place, and even though there were only three teams, it felt good to get an award. 

There were also some things that didn’t go well at all. Our pinball machine, which was the center of the entire project, did not work at all. This could be because we practiced with a smaller and lighter ball, or just because we didn’t trouble shoot enough. We definitely need to fix this very obvious problem before the next part of the tournament.

Overall, I am proud of what we did, even though I know we could have done better, and I look forward to doing better in the next part of the project.

Welcome to my GAMESHOW, The A-TOM TRIVIA SHOW! In this project, we were asked to code a game on scratch that creatively demonstrated our knowlage on atoms. I chose to format my Scratch game as a trivia/reality game show.

I crated a character named A-tom, who is the host of our game show, ‘A-tom’s game show’. He is my favourite part of this game with his silly- and sometimes hurtful- replies to your answers to the trivia questions. I created his body with the drawing tools we have in Scratch, like the paintbrush tool, and the point select button. I also made a simple animation of his mouth moving in time with his snarky replies, but crating several costumes of him all with his mouth in a different position, like a stop motion. I recorded sound of me and my friends saying both positive and negative things related to or trivia questions. I then sped them up making them high pitched, and funny. I programmed it so that if you answered correctly, you would hear a nice/positive response and if you were wrong you would get a rude/negative response. 

Another thing that I included in my game is the actual trivia questions. I chose about eight questions that spanned from ‘What year was the idea of an atom created’ to ‘True or False, We are made of 7 Billion Billion Billion atoms’. I think that the questions I chose showed my knowledge of atoms while still being understandable to those who knew a little less.

  I also am proud of the way I helped people over the course of the project. I have some history with scratch, I used to crate things on scratch all the time. I enjoy helping people, and the fact that I can makes me happy. I also helped create a studio will most of our classes’ games after we ran into the problem where our games wouldn’t come up after we searched them in scratch. Now, there is a studio titled ‘PLP8ScratchAtomGames’ that has most of our games inside. This makes them much easier to access and it is nice to see them all together.

If I could change one thing about my game, I would probably add more responses to A-tom. I love all of the things he said, but I have so many ideas of other things I could add. I would have added more, and I still might, but to do that I would have to re-start all of the code that has to do with any sound played in the whole game. I also changed the code so that it should be compatible with mobile devices, or if you do not have a keyboard, witch I think is a good touch.  

Overall, I am really proud of my game, and this is one of my favourite projects this year.