“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 […]
Read more "TPoL 2023: External Initiatives"Adversity…. are the challenges we face in life… the force that drives humans and the living to grow, “fit” for the their environment. ~ A biological perspective on adversity ~ Continuing on my previous “stories of hope” blog, we finally completed this project. Here is my final video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bthYaApjGPML-92QzRnX7lVdCSPJeeXO/view?usp=drivesdk I will look back in this […]
Read more "Songs of Hope"Human culture and language has always driven by stories. Powerful, tragic, metaphorical or even hopeful tales are interwoven in our everyday lives, worldview and actions; so what makes a good story and drives a character’s growth? What pushes a protagonist to their limits and allows them to push through the harshest conditions? Perhaps diving into […]
Read more "What Is A Story Of Hope?"Preface: Hello Mrs Willemse World: Summer is already over and I finally finished CLE (Career Life Education) so now I am back with a PLP blog post. We started a new project recently and today I will be covering the first milestone of it so let’s get right to it. Intro: This new project is called […]
Read more "Governments & Monarchs"Hello World, I am back again after completing yet another project. Its been a while due to the fact that I didn’t have a a PLP course last quarter but here I am. Anyway let’s talk about what this new project is about and what we PLP 9s have been doing. For starters, this project […]
Read more "The Great War Exhibit"Hello world! I am back after one and a half months and after the completion of another new project. However, this new project is not just any normal one, this was a ten milestone long project that had us create 5 different videos and spanned a month! The project I have spent 1 / 924th […]
Read more "Case for a Nation!"Hello World! I have just finished my third project since entering PLP. Like the past two projects, this new project is related to the topic of “Revolutions” but rather than the previous driving question which was: “how do revolutions transform societies?”, our new driving question is “how do revolutions transform the world.” The project I […]
Read more "Rise of the Frankenstuffies!"Hello world! I’m back to continue my tale of the project “Storming the Barricades. This is part two so if you would like to check out the first part, click here. Our Next Milestones and tasks: If you have read the past part, you would know that my group (Julien, Nate, Simon and me) has […]
Read more "Storming the Barricades Part Two"Hello world! This week, we have started a new project called “Storm the Barricades.” In this project we analyzed and learnt about Crane Brinton’s theory of revolution and turned this idea into a metaphorical machine while creating a video about it. We also had to mod the machine after we learnt about the American revolution […]
Read more "Storm the Barricades Part One"Hello world! This is my first conclusive post which is actually pretty cool. This past week, I worked on my first PLP project. Our task was to recreate a short horror movie called “Run” (click here to see the original) and to replicate it as closely as possible to the original. The project was split […]
Read more "Running a Remake!"