Trains During the Industrial Revolution 

       In PLP we are working on a unit about Revolutions. We have learned about different revolutions and what makes something a revolution. To read more about revolutions check out my other blog post Here. In this unit we were assigned a mini project. For this project I had to make an explain everything about how Trains impacted the Britain during the Industrial Revolution. We had to do three drafts so it could be as good as possible. I’m going to be honest. I was not excited for this project at all. I don’t like using explain everything because it is very hard to use and almost always deletes my work. For some very odd reason I actually enjoyed working on this project. 

       To start off the project I had to fill out an outline so I could know what I was going to do. I did a little research on Trains in Britain during the Industrial revolution. Once I had enough information I filled out the outline and handed it in. 

Once I got my outline approved I was ready to start. It took me quite a while to get started because I was really dreading doing it. I eventually started and it wasn’t that bad. I edited all of my pictures, I wrote my script, I added animation and then I was done. I was quite happy with the finished product so I handed it in. You can watch it Here but I’m warning you it is very bad. The next day at school I got one of my friends to critique my work and I had a lot of improvements to make.

I wasn’t as mad to start the second draft. I just had to do a lot of editing to the first draft. I just really wanted to get it done so as soon as I got home I started to work on it. I re-did some of the voice recording and I added more animation and pictures. Once I was done I was very happy. A couple of days later I got critiqued again and had to do a third draft. I added even more animation, changed some of the pictures, and re-did more of the voice recordings. I was very happy of my final draft. I had made it much better than the first draft and I was happy to be done​​.​You can watch it Here. Throughout this project I got a lot better at using explain everything. I don’t hate it has much as I used to and I find it a lot easier to use. This project want as bad as I thought it was going to be but I hope I never have to do another explain everything again. 🙂

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