Monday, May 27, 2013

Last class me and caden imported all of our clips to the computer and started working on on our final project. We spend the entire class working on the video we are half way done and we are planing on continuing with the project next class and hopefully finishing it in class. If we didn't have time we will finish it at home. It looks good till now.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

I am going to write about last class and the class before that Which I missed and didn't write about it.


Last Friday Me and Caden left to go and look for a class room which was available for us to recored the scene in are movie where we enter that class room late for the test. Looking for a teacher was hard so we decided to choose one of the students who had free block to act like one. We also had to go and look for some other students who had free block to act as students taking a test. After asking permission from a few Liberians we were to recored the class scene in the classroom at the back of the library. After that we recored some scenes of him running to the class late.



Last Class Me and Caden left to go and ask permission from Mrs. Yaccobi and see if we were able to use some of the prompts that were used in the Legally blond performance but unfortunately we couldn't find her so instead we asked Ireas if we could use the blackbox and he said that it was ok but we have to put everything back were it belonged. In the black box we found many useful prompts that were useful for our video after recording the scenes we put everything back and copied the clips to our hard drives and returned it back to tech. Hopefully next class we would start assembling everything together

Thursday, May 16, 2013


Mid Quarter May 2013
Please answer the questions fully in the spaces below.
Name
 Mateen
Module
 Movie project 
Summarize what you have achieved in the first half of this quarter.
 In the first half of the quarter I achieved building a neighbourhood similar to my neighbourhood in Canada using Google Sketchup

Please indicate any days that you know you will be missing between now and the end of the course.
ISST, APs etc.
 Nothing unless something comes up.
Describe what you expect to achieve by the end of the module?
How much material will you have covered?
What projects will you completed?
What will you be presenting?
 I will expect to achieve a well made movie made with Caden. 
It will most likely by a movie made backwards 
Your teacher will be entering a grade-in-progress in PowerSchool for mid-quarter. He will be considering your performance in terms of theassessment guidelines. At this stage he will be asking about the extent to which the statements below apply to your performance in the course.
Comment below if you feel there has been a change since mid-semester.
His/her written communication (blogs and reports) are done according to deadlines and contain enough information for the teacher to understand what he/she is doing, what kinds of problems he/she is facing and how he/she feels about his/her learning experiences.
Are you consistently doing your blogs? How does your BLog keeping compare to the first half of the quarter? Are you providing more details of your learning? Do you take care to express yourself clearly and use conventional grammar and spelling? Are you using images, videos, links to illustrate the work that you are doing? Are you satisfied that your blog reflects in a complete way what you are doing?
inadequate adequate good outstanding
(highlight and comment)

Yes I am keeping blogs. Nothing has changed from the first quarter. Yes I do. and no i havent been using images or video to illustrated what im doing in this specific project. Because we are sort of keeping it a surprise 

Typically this student makes effective use of class time by increasing his/her competence and confidence using software that he/she has chosen.
Are you using your time effectively? Are you learning each time you come to class? Are you becoming more competent and confident?
inadequate adequate good outstanding
(highlight and comment)
Yes I am 
He/she attends all class sessions, coming and leaving on time, making sure to make up missing time by working during free periods or at home.
Have you missed class this quarter? How many times? What have you done to make up lost time?
inadequate adequate good outstanding
(highlight and comment)
Yes I have, although i have missed a few classes due to the Baha'i international convention.
His/her oral communication during class is focused on the learning tasks that he/she is engaged in.
Are your conversations in class focused on your learning tasks?
inadequate adequate good outstanding
(highlight and comment)
Most of the time 
During class he/she remains focused on the task at hand and generally respects the integrity of the learning environment for all students.
Do you stay on task throughout the block? Do you effectively resist temptations to use the computer for unrelated activities (other homework, e-mail, facebook, youtube, sports results, music etc.)? Do you resist temptations to take unnecessary breaks, arrive late, leave early? Are all your interactions with other students focused on the task at hand?
inadequate adequate good outstanding
(highlight and comment)
No I try my best throughout the block to stay on task
He/she has positive attitudes towards acquiring technology skills, and makes a conscious effort to acquire new skills and apply them in meaningful ways.
Are you acquiring new skills each class? Are you effectively documenting these in your blog? Have you found ways to apply your skills beyond classroom exercises?
inadequate adequate good outstanding
(highlight and comment)
Yes 
He/she is an independent learner, who tries to solve problems by himself/herself, but finds effective ways to overcome problems using a variety of other resources.
Have your become more independent as a learner? What resources are you using to learn effectively?
inadequate adequate good outstanding
(highlight and comment)
Yes I have been using youtube clips and many tutorials given by the program itself 
He/she is respectful of all members of this learning community and his/her behavior is in compliance with all school policies, in particular the AUP (Appropriate Use Policy) and Academic Honesty Policy.
Are you respectful, appropriate, honest? Do you make sure that your behavior does not interfere with the learning of others to by distracting them from their work?
inadequate adequate good outstanding
(highlight and comment)
 Yes, or at least i think I am 
Your grade will take into account your performance in the above areas and also..

 The amount of documented learning time that you have spent in and out of class.
The amount and/or depth of material that you have covered
What is your grade-in-progress (see PowerSchool)?
Typically if the grade is in the 80s your overall performance has been good. If your grade is in the 70s your performance has been adequate.
How would you describe your overall performance at this point? Is your assessment in-line with the assessment of your instructor?
 I think that my overall performance is very good. And I am in line with the assessment. I think more than the first quarter  
Is there any other information that you would like to provide your teacher to help decide on your grade-in-progress?
 No not really 

Last class me and Caden used for recording some scens for the project. But we do not think we are going to be using because they did not turn out will due to the small amount of time we had because of the early release.

Monday, May 13, 2013

Last Class me and Caden left almost from the begging of class thinking, positioning where to film the video. We were thinking of recording most of the video at Caden's house and the other half at school since the scene is supposed to be filmed in a classroom. But we started having second thoughts about that idea, we found many good area's in the school were we could record or film so their is a possibility that we will bring props from home and film at school. we will talk more about it next class. since we are not finalized.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Last class me and Caden Left and started recording outside. most of the time we were looking for good places to recored. But it took us a long time writing a script and thinking of ideas.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

I had missed two classes but last class me and Caden came up with our final project. We decided to make a movie going backwards, We started writing a script together till now we have and idea of being late for a test and going back in time and seeing what they were doing the night before. We thing we are going to recored part of the movie at someones house and the other part at school. We also went to drama to look at some crops we could use.