💤 This is the emoji I think of when I think about this night, and not because it was boring either. Standing up and talking for that long was physically and mentally exhausting.
To be fair I also think of these emojis 😁 🤓 🙌🏻. I did have a lot of fun and I learned a lot. At the end of the night, I felt very accomplished.

This was my first exhibition for PLP and the theme was the movie avatar. Our driving question was “ What does James Cameron’s world of avatar reveal about our own society?” It was really cool to see how so many people thought of such different ideas and opinions about this question.

The Box
To start when we made our theme boxes each grade eight made a theme statement. Mine was “Our actions can often affect people and things around us in a much bigger way than we expect.” I portrayed this in my box by taking 4 shallow wood boxes and telling a story through them. The first one depicted an undisrupted forest with all the animals and nature coexisting peacefully. In the next one there are soldiers in the forest who have kicked up the ground, are trying to shoot a bird and have left their fire unattended. In the next one, the soldiers’ fire has set the entire forest on fire putting everyone (not just themselves) in danger. Finally, we see a smokey scene with sticks where there used to be trees. This represents my theme statement because of how thoughtless the soldiers were.
The setup
For the most part, this was actually pretty fun. I enjoyed putting up the tree in the centre of our room and it was nice to get to know the other grades. Some part of me loves organized chaos because it feels like everyone’s working together and even if it’s unorganized right then it will all come together in the end. The only thing I didn’t like about this was the tone of some of the older grades some of them were condescending and unwilling to hear our ideas. They were probably stressed though so it’s understandable.
The exhibition
So, the boxes were done, and we set up, and then people started coming in. they came in waves and by the end of the night I could do my spiel in my sleep. It was also really interesting to go and see all the other’s work, in different rooms. I wish I had seen Macbeth, but my break didn’t correspond with the time so oh well. I loved talking to all the people at the exhibition and it was eye-opening to see their opinions on my work.

Overall I really liked this project, especially since we got to use our hands and be creative! I hope to do more projects like this in the future.
Thanks for reading!
Neko

Oops! Looks like I forgot to post this one 🤦‍♀️. This is a project we did before the break with ms Kadi in maker. It was kind of like a sibling project to geeking out with ms Madsen. For this project we worked on making photos. Instead of quickly snapping photos (taking them) we thought out what we were photographing making the images.

This projects driving question was “How might I use the still image to create and communicate through technology.

Here’s my keynote presentation, and within it a reflection on each picture. (It wouldn’t upload so I took some screenshots instead)

The three skills I found most useful were 

-interesting angles. 

-filters for mood I liked how one image could look so different with different filters

-using a timer for jumping photos or self portraits . This one was useful, but also very fun

I really liked how all of these gave the photos personality

That’s all for today thanks for reading!

DRUMROLL PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

I PRESENT TO YOU

MY VERY FIRST BLOG POST!!!!

*crickets*

Ummmmm

This is the part when you clap….

NEVERMIND

This post is all about our first maker project. Our driving question was “Who am I as a PLP learner”. At first I was a little confused as to why we were doing this project so early in the year, (we’re only done 2 months of school so far) so I didn’t know if I would have an answer yet. However, when I actually thought about it I discovered that we actually have done a lot this year. I’ll be focusing on what we did in maker (basically ADST)for this post.

1ST Up is my laptop Memoji

The point of this assignment was to learn about using keynote. I learned a lot about how PLP uses keynote. I had never used keynote before this so I gained many skill such as

-instant alpha (now background remover)

-gradient 

-image fill (my favourite)

-colour fill

-borders

I also think that this showed who I am as a PLP learner because I blended my home and school selves. I projected my home self through my stickers showing my interests, such as reading, music the earth and my fish. It showed my school self because I used my iPad to to make it and probably wouldn’t have made it if I hadn’t been in school.

I think I did well on this because I payed attention in class and revisited the criteria many times to try be extending.

Next is my user manual

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I wont include a picture of it all because that has personal info, and that is NONE OF YOUR BEESWAX. I will however show a couple pieces here ⬆️

The point of this assignment was to get to know our self’s more and practice using pages. We also had to make sure the set up was almost exactly the same as Ms. Kadi our teacher’s. This assignment really helped me share my personality and the page that I showed really made me think about how writing about myself as a machine is creepily similar to writing about myself as a person. I realized that I really do have different modes. I did well because I followed the criteria and got a rainbow.

3rd is my digital selfie

The point of this was to learn about all the cool things our iPad’s cameras can do. We learned about how to use the following features

-photo

-self timer

-adjusting the exposure

-panorama

-burst

-markup

This showed my interests in writing and nature in 1 photo. I think I did well even though I originally got in incomplete since the wifi wasn’t working down at myrtle and I forgot to once we got to school since i had gym next. My revised grade was a green check mark so I’m more confident now.

Last is my dream board

The point of this assignment was to plan out the things we want to do with our lives in a visually appealing way. The interesting thing about this was that in couple years I might have a completely different dream board or it could be exactly the same. We’ll have to see if stands the test of time. This assignment showed my personality and interests. I also have a lot of long term/challenging things on there so it shows that I’m ambitious. I did well on this because I was really happy with the finished product and my grade fit the goals outlined in my learning plan.

Thanks for reading! I hope you check back soon!

-Neko ✨