About 2 weeks ago my teacher announced that we were starting our capstone unit. A capstone is where you pick a topic and study it. Then you can either do an Ignite, a Ted Talk, or a Movie. An Ignite is when you have 12 slides, and each slide is 15 seconds. A Ted Talk is 3-5 minutes with no slide requirements. A movie is 3-6 minutes and can be done on WeVideo or Adobe Spark.

I had a little trouble choosing my topic. First I thought that I was going to do, “Ukraine Refugees,” but after researching, I quickly realized I didn’t have enough information.  At that point, I was thinking of something to do with the Ukraine war. But I came to the same conclusion of not having enough information. I asked my teacher for some advice and finally, I thought of the topic: Social media affecting wars. 

I started doing lots of research at finding many ways that social media affects wars, after I did research I was going to narrow down my topic.

I needed to narrow my topic down, because I could talk about it for hours about Social media affects wars. Working on my main inquiry question for me was not o difficult. My first one was: What impact does social media have on wars? I thought about this for a while and realized I don’t really want to do this. When a couple of other people shared their questions with the class I thought of an idea. My new question was: What are 3 benefits of using social media during wartime, and how have some of them been used?

Sub questions weren’t too hard, I just had to narrow down my main inquiry question. One challenge though was thinking of 5 . Two examples of my sub-questions are: What are some advantages of using social media during wartime? And, how have some people used social media during wartime? My sub-questions helped me a lot with research.

The first part of the capstone was really fun and interesting altogether, and I really hope that the 2nd part will be just as good.