Winter exhibition 2024

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Another year another exhibition, the 2024 winter exhibition To be exact! 

For this exhibition we had to do a project called marketing me, for this project which we turned in to our winter exhibition project we had to make a resume, a business card and show off who we are as a learner and as a person.

For my resume I had chosen to use the app Canva which I think might be the last app i have to mention On my website, back on track I chose a tan background so its easy on the eyes to read since there would be almost only adults reading this, I put some interesting things about my self, some past work Experiences and some of my skills, for example it takes a long time for me to burn out so i could work for hours with out any problem, past work I had done was during the summer of 2024 I worked for a company called sentinel glass down in Langley, they needed an office renovated and I had to put in a bunch of dry wall and make some heading for a project they had going on, some other work i did was in 2023 I did some work for a kitchen show room in gas town it was called kI atelier so sometimes they host events for investors and I was the dishwasher with one of my friends.

 that’s just what was on my resume I also had a business card to go with it, it had a red background and my initials LM (for Logan Muller) and a pair of sports rackets behind it to show that I’m a very active person both in the job site and out of it

When some one came to my table they would stop by my table mate first then they would go to my side next and I would just talk about the stuff on my table I would tell them about what I want to do for my career then I point to my vest my helmet and then some bolts that my friend gave me as decoration, I point to my resume talk about what I did before construction ( I was a dishwasher), then i say thank you for coming to my exhibition, and then they leave.

Thank you for attending my virtual exhibition I will see you next year for the 2025 Spring exhibition.

Atomic habits blog post on artifact

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Hello and welcome back to my blog if you don’t know already my name is Logan muller and this is my artifact On the book atomic habits written by James Clear,

So for this project i was tasked with reading a book on making habits and changing good or bad habits you may already have, the driving question that was given to this project was How can small changes in my habits shape my success this year, and beyond? At first i had no idea what to expect from This book, and at first i had thought that it was a little boring, but day after day i would keep on reading the book there were 22 chapters in the book and by the end of week one i was at 13, i was so hooked with the different techniques that James clear talks about like habit stacking were you add on new habits to habits that you already do in your daily life like during water after making a cup of coffee, or doing some push ups after you wake up, another way to make new habits is the two minute rule were if the habit takes more then two mins then you do it last so you do all of the small things in the day first then all of the long and boring things like folding your clothing or vacuuming,

The way that he speaks in this book is so good and he tells you a little bit about him self and other people who used habits to better there lives, even i am using habits from the book the habit stacking rule is really good, so i get home take off my shoes take a shower then i play the piano, those are some of the habits that i stacked on to getting home after school and it really did help a lot, even my parents noticed it, 

But besides all of that habit talk, we were tasked with making a artifact, what is an artifact you might ask, well it is something that you make on your understanding of something. Like for this project i made a advertisement style video on the book and what it can help with, it also has to connect with you Jin some sort of way and in January I’m being tasked by the company that I work for to make and add video, if you would like to watch it, i put it at the end of this post 

Well that’s all for this project i hope you enjoy my video, and the information that i gave you. I’ll soon you in my next blogpost. 

file:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/f1/01/11F880DF-02B8-4381-A212-9B4EA633F077/My%20Movie%207.MOV

Why the world needs more Canada, post

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Have you ever wondered, how is Canada such a nice place, well so did the grade 10 class of PLP!!!

And I’m here to tell you what I discovered on why the world needs more Canada, I’m going to go through my learnings and what i made to show what i learned.

This project was the first one that i had to make a pod cast for, and i got to do it on why the world needs more Canada, when i was thinking of the subject that the teachers gave us (why the world needs more Canada) i had thought of it more like why the world needs to be more like Canada, and with that in mind the topic i chose with why the world needs more Canada is the importance of immigrants, the reason that immigrants are a big part of Canada is because The do almost 40 percent of all jobs in Canada, and every immigrant is accepted for who they are the second they get to Canada i know this because Both of my parents were immigrant who had spent most of there lives in Mexico, and in there words “we had a welcoming embrace the second we stepped out of our plane”,

Here is some more evidence that i had found on the subject of immigration.

According to the 2021 census, individuals in Canada reported over 250 different ethnic origins, reflecting the country’s rich history of immigration and its role as a global melting pot. More than 8 million Canadians identify as members of visible minority groups, accounting for over 23% of the total population, and this number is expected to continue growing in the coming years.

That is just a small bit of the information that i found for this project, if you would like to hear the rest of it check out my classes podcasts, there are a total of 48 episodes on different parts of what make Canada, well great that’s the only real way to put it.

We also had to put one piece of Canadian literature in our pod cast so i took a quote from a book called A Fine Balance, written by Rohinton Mistry, the quote that I used was “You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair… In the end, it’s all a question of balance.”  And This reflects Canada’s approach to multiculturalism, striking a balance between integration and the preservation of unique cultural identities, ensuring harmony within its diverse society.

With the amount of time we had to complete this project i could of made a few changes to my podcast  like i could of made the back round music a little louder or i could of made the audio clearer, or i could of just re-recorded some parts that I stuttered on, but besides that i would say that i had done pretty well for my first pod cast, plus i had to shorten my script because originally it was 1000 words and then i had to shorten it to 706 to make it fit in 5 mins if you would like to see my script for the podcast here is a link to it. file:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/57/07/7B078487-39F3-4F62-8512-E48A5B0F55D0/Draft%203.pdf

But besides that i think that i had done pretty well for my first podcast especially with the ability to chose what to do it on, thank you for reading my self feed back and hopefully you will listen to my podcast, if you would like to hear it i have the link for that as well. file:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/56/06/2C70F722-7E32-48F8-8605-A12A7B2C5FE0/My%20Song.m4a

Tpol 2024

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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.

For the first bit of my tpol I was tasked with marking off whatever I felt best suited me in this chart and we had to choose one segment from agency and two others segments from any other topic.

 

So for the agency one I chose the segment Accepting feedback and in it it says the learner accepts feedback and make revisions, and I think since the beginning of the school year I have been putting in a lot more effort into my school work and one of the big things that had made most of my projects as good as they were was from the feedback that I got from both my classmates and the teachers.

For the second one I chose communicating with peers because of the fact that most of my revisions and feedback had come from my fellow students.

For my final one I chose focus in the self-regulation section because I have been way more focused on my school work both in class and out of class. Like when I do my homework I wake up early and I work for a full hour before I go to school, a reason I have also been focused more in class is just because the teachers put us in random seating or edges daily at the beginning of the class.

Since my last pol I have done two plp projects and I wanted to talk about some good things in my projects, the bad things, and some things that I could change to make them better.

The first project that I did was “in the name of nationalism” and for this project I was tasked to research a country and how nationalism had affected them. With this information we had to make a 3-minute video and then post it on YouTube.

The country that I was put to research was Great Britain, so for the first two weeks of the project we got lots of class time to watch videos on what nationalism is and how it had affected many different countries around the world. So with my information I got to work trying to find pictures online that I could use and make into an awesome video for my channel. Once I had all of my pictures that I liked and all of my information on Great Britain I had to type out a script that would last me at least 3 minutes. After that I put together all of my work so far into the video and I did a voice recording. In the end I had ended up with 3 minutes and 48 seconds of me talking so I had to extend my video so the recordings would fit. After that the teachers put all of us into random groups and we had to do some peer feedback on our videos. In the end I got some very positive feedback and I had to tweak my video a little then I had to post it onto my school YouTube channel to finish with this project. One of the things that I would have changed was that I could have chosen a few more pictures because I had to extend some for  15 to 20 seconds long and I’m pretty sure the viewer doesn’t want to look at a picture that long. The thing that went well was that I was able to get lots of reliable information really fast so no matter what I had to only search for 5 minutes or less to find out a question that I might have had. One thing that I really liked about this project is that it let me learn the skills to edit and be able to make my own videos.

Here is a little intro that i animated ScreenRecording_06-20-2024 08-03-45_1

The second project that I did after my Mpol was for the winter exhibition. For the winter exhibition we were tasked with researching WW1 and making a comic on different roles of

 people in WW1. Everyone in the class was able to choose three things they would like to make the comic out of and one of them would get picked out of your top three. I was very lucky and I was able to get the battle that I wanted, which was “the battle of Ypres”. In this battle it was the British fighting against the Germans and during the battle the first ever use of gas was put into play by the Germans. So I had to research some more information on the battle.

After I had found enough information and watched a few videos on how to draw people I started working on the comic part of the project. For the comic I could either draw them myself or trace over an actual picture of the battle so I got to work and in the first two weeks I had only done 10. Then on the last week I had to hurry it up so I worked in the mornings and at night to complete the other 10 that I had to make. We also had to include different types of panels like a splash panel and a wide panel and some text that the main character says as well as the “narrator.” After I finished with all 20 of my panels then I handed it in and got it printed out for the exhibition. On the exhibition day I had all of my panels on a sheet to actually make it look like a comic then I stapled them together and the parents came in to look at all of our work. Then the exhibition ended and the project was over with it. Something that went really well is that I had already had lots of experience with drawing as I really liked to draw when I was younger so I brought back some of the skill from that. Something that I could have changed is that I would have spent more time drawing the final 5 because I’m going to say that it’s not the best work that I had drawn.

 

My Grade Nine Mpol

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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.

To start things of I would like to talk about the project that I think I could have improved on the most out of all of them this school year, the project that I’m talking about is my Frankein stuffie. It’s not because of how my stuffed “animal” turned out if you can even call it an animal, but its the video that I had to make on it using the basic hero’s journey story. Some of the things that I could have maybe changed is that I could have done a little bit better on the green screen for Jeremy (My stuffed animal). Like on most of the film you can see the green outline on him and on me when I was in the story I could have gone back in the end and cut out the most amount of green that I could have. Something else that bothered me in the end is that I misspelt beginning somehow. I wasn’t focused enough and I spelt it “beginig” missing the last N. In general, I think that I could have done better by my standards and by the teacher’s standards.

Another thing that I sort of failed the first time was my DI group because in the first quarter of the project I hadn’t really helped out my group then one of my team members saw me goofing off and not really contributing then after I talked with him I started to help out a lot more with my group and in the first part of DI, I’m not completely sure what place we got for DI but I’m pretty sure we didn’t do too well so for the next half of DI, I was trying to help out my team by coming up with ideas on how to extend the script and helping Magnus actually have a costume since last time we were mostly focused on the machine and on the script that we sort of forgot our costumes and he just wore a tan shirt and pants so for the next Time I helped him make a turtle shell and a mask for his costume to be complete.

Some of the projects that I had lots of fun whilst doing them are my Franken stuffie. And yes, I know that I was just talking about all of the things that I could have changed as a learner doing the project but I had lots of fun making the Franken stuffie. I had learned how to sew things together and in the project the standard was that you had to sew 3 parts of random stuffed animals but I was doing it with one of my friend and I was having such a good time doing it so I added 5 parts to my animal.

Another project that I had a load of fun doing was my metaphor machine because I had to make a Rube Goldberg machine and I had done this in the past in my old elementary school. But we only made a drawing of it so we didn’t make it in elementary so I was so glad that I got the chance to make one with some of my class mates, I think that that project might have been one of the best projects that I have done in a group we got Russia and we had to do lots of research and we had to know the whole October revolution and we had to make a sign with a Timeline and the key points after that with the newly found information we had to make a metaphor machine which is a Rube Goldberg machine with seven metaphors from the October revolution the one that I came up with was the first thing that we put in our machine at it was the old ruler stepping down and his son stepping up to the role so for this I came up with the design of a pulley system so the ball goes in to one cup and another out the other cup. After that we all came up with a script to make like a video documentary with all of us in it and we had to dress up as a Russian peasant back then since that was what our research came up with the most and we all had roles in this project like script writer head design engineer and videographer the role that I chose what designer engineer so I had every one send me their designs for their part of the machine and I had to find out a way to connect them in the end I had to put them in historical order and that took a really long time to complete, in the end with the design that I made for the machine we started to build it and we presented to all of the parents and everyone in my group had a good time doing this project.

Some of the other things that have helped my learn a lot was the loon lake trip that we took an the thing that I had learned the most on that trip is trust in my teammates/Classmates because we had to do a lot of team building exercises like a trust fall of a chair on a table and a rope course 15 feet in the air ( it might be more I’m not sure). Another project That I had learned from was take your kid to work day video because I had learned what my dad does in a day and I also learned a little on how to use an app called Auto CAD which will hopefully come handy in collage.

One of the last things that I would like to talk about for my Mpol is my learning plan and for my parents who don’t know what that is, it’s my plan for what I want my Grades to be for the school year and for my learning plan I had put my grades as Humanities proficient, science extending, and so far I have a proficient in science and a developing in humanities and to fix this in my learning plan I put that I would try to focus in my classes and and try to participate with my class mates more and try to participate more in class like say the teacher asks if some one know anything about british nationalism then i could put up my hand and say something about it.

Frankenstuffies Blog post

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For this project we had to massacre 3 stuffed animals and sew them back together in a new form, i had extra stuffed animals so i added five parts to my Frankenstuffie that is what the teachers called them since they are like franken stine so we all had to make our own ill show how my’n turned out at the end we also had to make a video on how they were made and a video on there origin story mashed on the hero’s journey so i made him going to work then he got kidnapped and is now trying to find a way to get vengeance on the person who changed his normal body in to what ever the heck i made

also if you want to go and rate it for feed back go to this website

https://padlet.com/loganm46/frankenstuffies-blog-chiji2kdujod60wi

here is the code to my video

https://youtu.be/TkcJIliK_-o?si=8p2h-

 

Di post

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For our di project we had to make a Pin Ball machine out of card board wood and we had to have “ three different modules” to make the machine do an action such as light up something or make the ball change direction oh and the machine had to be 8 feat long and it used a soccer ball as the pin ball, in the end the three modules that my team chose was to make the ball change direction hid the ball from viewer sight and to make a sound 

For make a sound we had made a long shaft on its side and put keys on the end of it so when the balls hit the pole then it would make a sound 

For make the ball change direction we had put some screws barely in to our machines sides so when the ball hits the elastics that we put over the screws then it would rebound and go in the opposite direction

For hid ball from viewer sight we had cut open a dryer tube and made a little stack of card board then we had stapled the dryer tube on to our machine wall and in to the card board so the ball would go in to the end of the tube and get stuck in the machine 

And for the machine we had to have a topic to make our machine off of so we chose to make it Mario themed ( we almost got disqualified for copy right 😅) so we all had costumes such as Mario Luigi princes peach and bowser and the narrator for our story script just got to wear a nice shirt and pants, and some how i got stuck playing princes peach so we had to come up with a script and a little play for our machine when we presents so i had to yell for help in a girly voice, 

Here is the video  

https://share.icloud.com/photos/022Z45HngLsaYZnrIP0R2OuZQ

Rebel of Red River

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This project my teachers made us research on a man named Louis Riel and how the Provence Manitoba was made.

on of the big struggles that i had over this project is that i was away for 2/3rds of it so when i got back from my trip i was super far behind for for the next week i came in to tutorial time every day that I could and got to righting the topic sentence for my 3 paragraphs that they wanted me to right so as soon as i got all of my sources to start i was racing and with in the next two classes that i had i was done then i got my revises on this project and got it done

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Loon lake reflection

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For 5 days we when to a resort at loon lake called pinniacle pursuits and we were sent there as a class to work on our team building skills and to learn how we can trust each other more then what we can ever achieve in a class room, i think that i can say that we all had a really good time there and i would totally go again next year, some of the activities that we got to do with our class and the staff at the resort was a high ropes course and moving bridge a low ropes course trust falls on a chair that was on a table in to our pers arms and we had to fill in a booklet on every thing that we had learned and what we felt and how we have trusted our class more and some steps on how to be more respectful, in total i had learned a lot from this trip and i learned some valuable trust skills,

Winter exhibition 2023/2024

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This winter exhibition we made a “metaphor machine” and to make one of these we first had to be assigned one of the historically significant revolutions, the revolution that i had to make a machine out of was the October revolution/Russian revolution, then we got put in to our team and we had to chose some roles like the leader director, script writer, tester and modifier, and a few others in there the role that i chose was the head engineer so for that i had to make and modify the machines parts [modules] and to test them out this role really kicks in between the last week before the winter exhibition and a lot on the actual exhibition since we needed to take the whole thing apart and take it to the next room!!! Then we put the machine together again and give it a few test runs [like 30-50 runs] then we got to eat out dinners that we ordered from white stop, we at for 30 minuets then we got to our rooms and then we let the parents in to come watch our machines in action. Ok so the actual machine was made out of things that we thought could represent some thing that happened in the revolution like mine was a pulley system supposed to represent the crowning of the new tzar and we had 6 others different to this one to make out metaphor machines then we let the machines run we had to set them u again and we made them go again like 100 times then the parents left and we got to destroy the machines and we went home. in general our machine went right like 10 times only and the rest was just fails but we all had a good time I’m just going to say that, well at lest i can say that about the time i had making a testing my machine