Month: June 2016

Tightrope – Mini-Inquiry Project

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My legs are dangling off the edge

The bottom of the bottle is my only friend

I think I’ll empty this bottle of pills again

And I’m gone

 

 

I’ll Carpe Diem with my newfound love

My legs feeling different than ever before

There’s just so much of her to adore

And I’m gone

 

Lean, lean, left and right

The rope is there for you to walk so light

Happiness and despair you will fight

Like yin, and yang, they must unite

woman-tightrope-walking

Life can’t be full of happiness

Or full of despair

Life is a tightrope

Keep your balance, or you’re gone too

 

‘Tightrope’ by Alex Redwood is a rhyming poem that talks about humanity’s need for balance in their lives. The poem tells us about Alex’s beliefs on balance. He tries to explain that the consequences for having a life unbalanced can be much larger than you think. That the consequences can be invisible to you, that you could be facing the consequences of imbalance right now without even realising it.  The title, ‘Tightrope’, also references the subject matter of the poem. Alex Redwood chose to write a poem such as this because he has had difficulty in his life at the moment with trying to find balance between a multitude of things, and he believed that this was the best way to ‘take some of the heat off’.

 

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Blender Animation

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  1. The purpose of this project was to help us learn about Blender.
  2. I learned how to use a brand spanking new program, from modelling to animation. I’ve never used Blender before.
  3. I’m proud of the plane, as that took the most work
  4. I could improve on the landscape. But there’s not much to add, since it’s an ocean. So the landscape is pretty flat.
    I made waves though! So that’s cool, I guess.

Blender Plane

Launching a Restaurant

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  1. This project was about faking a launch of our very own restaurant.
  2. I learned how to use formulas with Microsoft Excel
  3. I’m proud of my spreadsheet. I think it looks very professional, or polished at least.
  4. We could have done more than one take for our commercial, but I hate being in front of the camera so…
    Our menu was also pretty mediocre.

Link to a spreadsheet detailing the restaurant’s first month of operation:

https://sd43-my.sharepoint.com/personal/132-aredwood_office43_ca/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?guestaccesstoken=6MmUdVjtbgKN1FUDWKaKlseO4EyA093h9Ntmvj8suWQ%3d&docid=0b3cfa62e3b594cd6915b3a00c20bd867

National Research Project (England, United Kingdom)

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  1. My project was about England, United Kingdom. I made the document in Microsoft Word.
  2. I learned how to use headings.
  3. I’m seriously proud of the last section, “Other Tourism Highlights”
  4. I guess I could improve by adding more pictures, but I think the whole thing is pretty good.

Mock Powerpoint Website

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  1. This project was about creating a mock website using Microsoft Powerpoint
  2. I learned about the “Master Slides” feature in Powerpoint, along with actions.
  3. I’m proud of creating the roll-over effects.
  4. I could improve on the amount of content. I didn’t put too much effort
    into looking for content to put in the “website”.