Category Archives: Passions

Pinch Pot Video Explanation.

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The Point for this project was to teach people how to make a clay pinch pot and maybe spark an interest in people with ceramics through a video format. The tool I used for this project was clipchamp. I use a goggle chrome for this project and I don’t know if its on other type of devices. However, I did learn that this tool  its not extremely complicated, but not a beginner friendly (I also recommend that you try to use this editing software). Using this tool my understanding of how technology can be helpful to world. I learned how there are many video editing software like this, and it being  accessible to anyone can help them peruse an interest or to find a starting place to get into video editing.

Talking to yourself passions

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I have a habit of talking to myself out loud, rather than in my head and people in my community question my habit, even though its healthy to do this. There have been study’s done by Dr. Lupyan and Michael Inzlicht, to back up this claim. Dr. Lupyan did a test were people say the names of common grocery foods out loud and then by looking at photos to help them find the items. The people that said the foods out loud, found the items faster than the people who did not, proving how it helps with memory. Micchael Inzlicht did a test on self-control, where it was “go/go no” test. Which is you pressing the “go” button when a yellow box appears and “no go” when a blue box appears, while the yellow box appearing more often. Some participants draw circles on their hand they were not using and talk out loud to themselves, while others could only say “computer”. People got a natural impulse to hit the yellow button and the people who said computer did worse, telling us that this help with impulses. You are now probably asking the same thing I asked, “If talking to yourself out loud is healthy why is it discouraged by people”. Well, we were taught this when were young, but then told to stop because it is not socially acceptable. I wanted to write this to tell you that my habit is healthy and to bring more attention to this. 

Rebuilding of B.C. dikes investigation

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I’m the type of person to tends to keep up with news, through Global News, when I’m eating diner with my family. Since I keep up with news through Global News, I don’t have a reason to go online and look up news articles online. However, I came across this news article about dikes being rebuilt, while environmentalists saying, how this can harm healing salmons habitats. As a person who cares about climate change and global warming, this article caught my attention right away. However I got a little sceptical about this article because it came from the Pique Newsmagazine , a newspaper service that I have never herd of. So i then started to see if this article is true or fake.

I began this search, by looking up the Pique Mewsmagazine on Wikipedia. There was very little information about the Pique Newmagazine because there was only 5 sentences written about Pique. I then begin to get more sceptical about this news article, because the Pique Newsmagazine  is nearly 30 years old, since it was made and how very little information about it.

 

After finding very little of Pique Newsmagazine in Wikipedia, I then decided to look up the Pique newsmagazine in the google search bar. Only I could find, was articles, the twitter and Facebook account for the pique newsmagazine. However, I could not find any articles about the pique Newsmagazine being fake.

With the tittle information I had about the Pique newsmagazine, I went to snopes.com to see if I can find the article and see if it is fake. I could not find anything on the article, possibly due to the fact, that this story was published 2 days ago.

After fining barely anything, I searched up the topic in the google search about see if I could find anything about the topic and I found the same article talked about by Burnabynow. I checked for anything about the Burnabynow on Wikipedia, but I found nothing helpful.

I looked at both news articles twitter accounts and Stefan Labbé, because he was the writer for the story that was on both news articles. Both News did not have  a blue check mark next to them. However Stefan Labbé did have a blue check mark.

Finally, after researching Stefan Labbé online. I found out that he is a reporter on climate change and has appered on my other news channels, like Guardian, the Globe and Mail, Open Canada and PBS Newshour that have reported on other stories he has done.

After a lot of research I can come to the conclusion that this article by Stefan Labbé is true.