My first Maker Project!

For this project, we made a keynote guided tour, which we made into a movie, and it included my team member contract, my artist’s statement, my big life journal, three best works, and lego. On the start slide, I also included my Memoji

 

 

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For my team member contract, I said mostly what I said in a page in my blog. I included the WordPack image, which shows what I bring to the team, and what my team has. For example, I bring understanding and ideas to the team. Whichever team I’m on has different strengths too.

For my big life journal three best works, I included my BLJ interest brain, my BLJ interest map, and my interviews. My interest brain includes what I like, not what I’m good at. For example, I included drawing, but I’m not the best at drawing yet. We also did an interest map, and it shows what possible careers that I could go into with one of the things that I’m interested in. I chose build, and I got engineer, architect and stuff like that. I interviewed my mom and my aunt, and these are the questions I asked them: What are my two greatest strengths, if I had my own show, what would it be about, what do you see me doing ten years from now, what sport do you see me doing most of when I’m older, what instrument do you see me starting, and do you see me living here or somewhere else. Mom: all around kid and going with the flow, whatever I’m curious about, in university, soccer, cello, somewhere else. My aunt said kind, thoughtful, science/music, whatever I want to do, soccer, guitar, here.

For my physical representation, I made a talking candy.

This is the artists statement that I came up with to go with my talking candy: Whenever we’re doing the team challenges, our team usually has problem with communication, but that’s because there are so many ideas going around, and that’s because everyone is talking at once. It shows me as a team member because I like getting everyone’s ideas. An example is if one person in your group is talking a lot and someone other than them has the best idea, but since the person is talking, they can’t get their ideas out there, your group ends up going with the person who was talking a lot’s ideas.

I have a Lego character creator. It represents how many ideas I bring to the team. Each body part can go with each other to make a new character. My favourite thing to do when creating a new character is to spin it, stop it, then grab a piece of the one that I’m closest to with my eyes closed.

The driving question for this project was “how do I build and strengthen the PLP learning team?” My answer to that was I build the PLP learning team by bringing equality, as I explained with my artists statement. Because our team talked over each other a lot, I thought it would be could to make something that helps that.

Our First Humanities Project!

Hi everyone, we are finishing up our first Humanities (Socials and English) project, creating a professional advertisement for a business. Our business was the Deep Cove Heritage Society. The Deep Cove Heritage Society is based in Deep Cove, they sell memberships, books, and have a new online photo archive here. The driving question for this project was “How does what we hear, read, and see influence us?”

For this project, my group members were KaiBrooke, Jessie, and Silas. We had several different milestones, such as our individual ad, and our historical media analysis.

For our individual ads, we did many different drafts, as you can see in this slideshow. 

I found that the progression from first draft to last was dramatic. The last image that you saw was our final group advertisement. We are quite proud of it, and the email that our business sent was very nice, and they said that we did very well. Their feedback was entirely positive. Please check out their website here.

With the Historical Media Analysis we had to choose an ad, then answer questions about it. This is the ad that I chose, and these are the questions that I answered:

Who created this message? 

The McDonalds company.

What techniques are used to attract my attention? 

A clown, crazy hat, and dancing at the end, as well as the clown with some examples of the food that they sell.

How might different people understand this message differently from me? 

They might think that McDonalds is a really fun and crazy place to go!

What lifestyles, values, and points of view are represented in or omitted from this message? 

If you see this ad, you will most likely want to go to McDonalds more than any other fast food company, because they have a clown, which could be very fun, and it’s clearly a family restaurant.

Why was this message sent? Profit and/or power. 

Profit and power. Profit to make money, and power of being the best food chain. If you’re the best food chain, you will get recommended by people more, and more people will come to you, which links in with profit, because you’ll make more money.

This project was a lot of fun, and I especially enjoyed making the ad for real people. Most of the projects that I’ve done before PLP have been just for the teacher, not for real world businesses. Doing projects like this will be more like what I’ll do in real life. I hope that we get to do more projects like this in the future.

The driving question for this project was “how does what we hear, read, and see influence us?” My answer to that is if we see stuff a lot, like an ad that has been up forever at a bus stop, we start believing the ad. Also, if you have friends that use a certain product, they might keep saying that the product is great, and you should buy it. Eventually, over time, you might start to believe them even more, and buy the product.