The topic for my project was the River Otter Beaver Trial. A trial of reintroducing beavers into the River Otter that started in 2015. My goal was to show the effects the beavers had on the river. Including both positive and negative effects as well as the local opinions on the reintroduction. I showed these effects with graphs as well as with writing. I went through the trial’s report and came up with categories to organize my project.

I used Canva to create an infographic poster to display my data. I knew nothing about Canva before the project, but after creating my poster I feel like I am proficient with Canva. Of course I also used the River Otter Beaver Trial report to collect my data. To find this report I used google scholar.

I think that Canva is a valuable tool and can help a lot. It’s easy and free to make projects and it allows you to create graphs. I feel like it can help with showcasing data or if you need to make a poster online. I now know that there are easy to use tools that can help me with school projects. Instead of always using a powerpoint or word document to show my projects. I now have another tool that I can use to add variety to my school projects.

Here is my project

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFDIWL50_w/67za9TQH0MqzWYlNZloDCw/view?utm_content=DAFDIWL50_w&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink

The topic I chose to take notes on was Caesar’s landing in Briton. I chose it because I am passionate about Roman history and history from that time. It interests me to learn about big events from so long ago. I like to learn about history from that time period and just older time periods in general. To give some context , Julius Caesar was the leader of the Roman Empire at the time and decided to invade Britain sometime around 50 BC. What I found out from my research was that his plans to invade Britain weren’t a secret to the Britons so they prepared to encounter the Romans and predictable landing spots. When the 80 Roman ships carrying two legions (the Tenth legion and the Seventh legion) arrived off the coast of Britain the Britons were ashore waiting for them. Caesar decided to wait for his cavalry which were sailed after the legions had left. Once all his ships were together offshore they sailed to near what is now known as Dover in England. On their voyage to Britain the Romans faced lots of natural problems like storms and tides but they made it across the channel anyways. The Briton’s followed the Roman ships along the shore to Dover and were waiting there. Caesar decided to land anyways and so the Romans disembarked from their ships in the shallow waters near the shore. They waded to shore and beat the Britons. It wasn’t an easy victory as the Briton’s were throwing javelins and teasing the Romans with cavalry whilst they waded ashore. But eventually they won and the Briton’s sued for peace.

This video I saw close to the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine shows the Ghost of Kyiv shooting down Russian aircraft. I’ve seen this video on many different platforms but the only one I could get a good link to was on YouTube shorts even though it was originally posted on Tik Tok. The video shows the Ghost of kyiv dog fighting a couple Russian aircraft. It shows the Ghost of kyiv shooting down two aircraft with missiles. The title of the video is Ghost of Kyiv shooting down Russian jets.

1. Checking the comments, whenever I’m unsure of a video I’ve seen I like to check the comments. I always find that there are some helpful comments that help to explain what the video is about, or in our case the authenticity of the video. I started looking through the 342 comments on this post and saw right away some people pointing out that the video is from a game called Digital Combat Simulator (DCS). The top comment pointed it out. Some of the comments said it was real but the number of likes on the top comment means most people agree with what this guy is saying.

2. Verifying, even though most people seem to agree that the video is fake. I decided to search the exact same title and added the word fake at the end to see if anyone has said anything about this post. The first thing to come up was an article that claims the footage is from a video game and not really from Ukraine. In the article they also say the footage is from Digital Combat Simulator (DCS). The article deemed the video fake.

After reading the article I figured out that the original video was not trying to claim that it was real combat. But was instead trying to show respect for the Ghost of Kyiv by showing him in the game. The video’s spread by other people claiming the video is real is fake. The video is just footage from DCS.