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#3 Capstone blog post

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In my final project, I have 15 slides and it takes me about five minutes for my voiceover. I have Apple TV so that is good because I can present it on my TV. I think that my final presentation is really good and I have all the right pictures for the slides. I have said everything that I learned about my subject in the amount of time required which is good so that I don’t have to narrow it down because I don’t think I could have left out anything. 

The answer to my main inquiry question consists of several parts. I think in each category the best weapons are a sword, pike, shovel, bow and arrow, bigger round shield, and a flaming arrow. I am proud of my presentation, which is a TED talk. I chose this for my presentation style because I wanted to be seen and I didn’t want the slides to move automatically. I think that the best part of making the presentation was the prompt and the transitions because they really made my presentation come to life. Something that was great was that I didn’t have any problems making my final project. I am looking forward to sharing it with my class because I think it looks good and I think my project is interesting.

 

#2 Capstone blog post

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When we do Capstone we have to interview someone. I interviewed a college teacher at Fordham university. I think that he was a very good person to interview because he is a teacher at Fordham. This is good because Fordham is a very good medieval studies college. I also learned a-ton of information. I had eight google doc pages full of his awnseres to my questions! He said a lot of stuff that none of my websites had even said once, like:

 

  1. A sword is a very good weapon because it is simple and very maneuverable.
  2. Digging under castle walls is a great way to destroy a wall because you will put sticks under the wall once you get there and then light the wood on fire and the wall will come crashing down.
  3. It will take months and months until the army that is besieging a castle is ready to actually storm a castle because you want to try and break down the walls as much as you can and make the people inside hungry and exhausted.
  4. A bow and arrow is a great weapon because it can fire hundreds of arrows in about an hour while a crossbow can only shout about 20 in an hour.
  5. A crossbow is a great weapon because it doesn’t require strength to load, but a bow and arrow does.
  6. A pike is a great weapon while defending a castle because it can push people down from ladders. A pike is also great against people riding on horses because it can hit them before they can hit you.
  7.  A round shield is an earlier type of shield used by vikings, that size of shield would go well with a hand axe or a sword. A smaller round shield is great for block short sword strokes.
  8. If there are a bunch of people on a castle wall all shooting arrows all at the same time nothing can stop that, it’s like rain falling on your head except it is very harmful.
  9. Fights under ground will sometimes take weeks and weeks.
  10.  You can use a rectangular shield to push people back or hit them to the ground.

 

At the end of the meating I thought it was a huge success and that  it was very helpful because he said things that the websites I was using didn’t even mention, this was good because I now know more things that I could add to my presentation!

ignite presentation reflection

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The thing that I did wrong in the ignite was I forgot to say what my favorite  thing was in the unit. I also forgot a few lines in ALL of my slides that is why I got of on the timing at the end. The things that I liked was that I showed a lot of personnel things in not just I liked that and I didn’t  like that I put in more specific things like that was hard an boring. Over all I liked my presentation a lot even if I did miss a few things and in the end the parents didn’t even pause before the slide ended they just clapped so it didn’t even matter if I got of on the timing!

blog day 2

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Controlled

 

Our controlled plant is doing perfect. It didn’t turn a weird color or die, it’s green and has yellow flowers with buds in it. The tallest one is  4 ½ inches tall and the smallest one is 2 ½ inches. It also has 4 leaves.

 

Manipulated

 

It died! It’s leaves are crumbled up and brown. The steam is lite green. All of them were drooping down. If you held it up it would be 2 ½ inches tall for the tallest one and if you did that for the smallest one it would be 1 inch.

 

I think this happened to the manipulated one because in garden we plant lettuce, but when we get it it’s already kinda grown and I think that it was like that because it was already growing in a greenhouse in natural light so it would be better. So with our planet likes artificial light better.