Self Assessment

Posted on June 7, 2024 by Addison

Communication:

In my course of Communications, I did my assignment of Pecha Kucha, which was an excellent example of communication because I demonstrated that I could speak for long periods of time on a subject that I am well versed on, without a script. Our Pecha Kucha projects were projects where we have a week to research a topic that we are passionate about and form a complex question about it. For example, mine was “Should the death penalty be abolished.” You must talk for 20 seconds per slide (without a script), with 15-20 slides depending on your grade. I was proud of how I could research a subject and become so comfortable and versed about it to be able to talk about it for a long period of time with no script or cue cards.

Creative thinking:

In my course of Science, I did a project of “Mitosis Stop-Motion” which was an excellent example of creative thinking because I demonstrated that I could think outside of the box and be creative with my resources. The “Mitosis Stop-Motion” project was a project where we were given resources such as clay, paper, pipe cleaners, and beads and we had to make an animation in the form of a stop-motion of the process of Mitosis. I used clay to form a circle which was my “cell” and pipe cleaners as the “outer shell.” I took many pictures of each frame to create my animation. I was proud of how the video turned out and proud of my hard work. Here is a picture of my “cell.”

Personal awareness and responsibility:

In my course of English, I got an extending which was an excellent example of personal responsibility because I demonstrated my work ethic and my understanding of all the materials in class. One of my favourite assignments that we did that I feel demonstrated my understanding were the “In class writes” we did. This was an assignment we would do after reading a book or watching a movie to prove that you understood. We would get a big paper and must write a mini essay on the topic sentence that we were given by our teacher. My favourite “In class write” was the one that we did about a short story we read in class called “Barney.” It was about a rat who was being experimented on by scientists. I ended up getting an “Extending” on that assignment which made me very proud.

Break the fake – Purple haze in Kelowna and Okanagan Valley

Posted on February 16, 2024 by Addison

This article was about how residents in Kelowna and Okanagan Valley woke up one morning to mysterious purple/pink haze.

1. The first thing that I did was I was scrolling through the news and clicked on this article where I saw these two pictures with purple/pink haze.

2. The next thing that I did was I went on Snopes to see if they had any articles on this topic and to see if it was real or not. Unfortunately, there were no articles on this topic. I think that the reason behind that is because it was a relatively new article and wasn’t very popular. The original article only states two provinces is Canada and I think that maybe not enough people had seen it yet.

3. The next thing i did was a google search with the key words from the original article. I searched up “Purple haze Okanagan” and nothing came up. I then went back to the article and re-read it to find some new key words to use. I searched up “Pink fog Kelowna” and found 4 different articles.

4. The next thing that I did was read the new articles. All of the information was mostly the same stuff. The news outlets also seemed pretty trustworthy. Since all of the information was the same and I didn’t have much to go off of, I went back to the original article again to check the author. I wanted to search him up to see if he had been involved in any prior hoaxes which he hadn’t.