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5E Capstone Blog Post 3#

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At this part of the project we have finished most of the work like the essay, the script and part of the movie. I think of it like a video game checkpoint. You have to learn and work for every checkpoint. 

My main inquiry question is “Who Is The Most Influential Hockey Player In The NHL?” Well the answer is there are lots of them. Each player that has an impact on the NHL can impact in different ways. For example different positions like goalie can impact differently than how a forward might impact the NHL. Patrick Roy has had the most impact as a goalie, Gordie Howe has had the most impact as a captain, Nicklas Lidstrom has had the most impact as a defenseman, the Edmonton Oilers has had the most impact as a team, Jim Gregory has had the most impact on the NHL as a general manager. The essay was really hard. You have to do a lot of research and say all of it in your own words. If your essay is not good, then your script will be very confusing. But I enjoyed doing the essay because after you are done with the essay, the script will be a lot easier to do. 

 

Here Is The Link To My Essay!

I chose Movie cause I kind of already got a feeling of how it was going to go. I also really liked the format of the movie. We got to choose a Wevideo, or Adobe. I chose Adobe cause I recently did a project using Adobe which I really enjoyed. The process of completing your script was long and hard. Not only do you have to time everything, you also have to get all of the slides from your essay. Not only that, but you also have to delete some of the things that don’t match your pictures. The slides timing was probably the hardest part. You have to calculate and make sure that your slides are longer than three minutes and shorter than six minutes. What I liked about it is that it was a lot easier to do your movie. 

 

Here Is The Link To My Essay!

The “final part” is the movie, Tedtalk, or ignite. For me I have finished about 90 percent of my movie. I have finished my voice over and most of the pictures for each slide. The most challenging part was putting and finding pictures that matched your voiceover. Some pictures are blurry, and some pictures are cut off. The part I enjoyed most is the movie recording part. I found it really easy to look at the script and record. 

Capstone has not been as hard as I expected. The hardest part for me was the script. The rest of the project really wasn’t that hard, I actually enjoyed doing the project so far!

 

Blog Post 2 Capstone

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After doing the interview, I felt like a rock had been lifted off my back. The interview was rather hard, not only do you have to ask the questions, but you also have to kind of get into a conversation with the person. I did my interview over the zoom, there were no technology issues or anything so it was rather easy setting the zoom up. 

Before your interview and all that stuff, you have to find someone to interview. There were many ways of finding someone to interview. Some people have people that they know already that are experts on their subject. For me, I didn’t know who to interview so I had to search websites to find the right person. You could have done two people or one person. As for me, I did 2 people. They both work at the Hockey Hall Of Fame. (Miragh Bitove, Kevin Shea) Both were experts and helped me a lot. The interviews were easy and challenging. At some aspects like tech it was easy, but others like getting into a conversation I found was rather hard. 

The interview experience was great and I really enjoyed it. The interview went as expected and everything went very well. I learned a lot of things like trying to find an expert on your project and working the time out. The experience was the best part of all, not only did you get to talk to an expert on your topic that is famous, but I also got to see some of the stuff in the hockey hall of fame. 

Up to now, I have really enjoyed everything throughout the project. The interview research and all of the things. The capstone project can be challenging and hard so you have to overcome the challenges. I have learned a lot of things about my topic and people along the way.

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Have you ever heard of the project Capstone? Hi, my name is Ethan and I’m in 5th grade. Capstone is a project that includes research from websites and interviewing an expert that knows about your topic. I feel pretty good right now about the project and I think I’m making a lot of progress in the research part. 

I had two topics, the first one was about electricity. The main inquiry question was what would the world be like if there were no electricity? But later I started to think the question could not be answered. So my teacher and I came up with a topic that I was interested in and could be answered. That topic was hockey (NHL), my main inquiry question is: Who is the most influential hockey player in the NHL? I chose this topic because I like the NHL and I know a lot of things about the topic. 

Coming up with the main inquiry question wasn’t the hardest part. But having it is really important. The main inquiry question should have something to do with the topic and the sub questions. Most of the challenges were with the sub questions. You had to come up with at least 5 of them and it has to relate to your main inquiry question.

The process of coming up with my sub questions was difficult and annoying. Most of the time you have to make a lot of changes and sometimes you have to change the whole question. Sometimes when you have your main inquiry question but you don’t have the sub questions, you have to change the whole topic. These are my sub questions: Who is the most influential player in NHL history?

 

“Who had the most impact on the NHL as a coach?
Who had the most impact as a goalie in the NHL? 

Has fans made an impact on teams?

Which captain had the most impact on the NHL?
Which individual had the most impact on the NHL?

Which defenseman had the most impact on the NHL?

Which hockey team has had the most impact on the NHL?

Which manager has had the most impact on the NHL?

Which trainer has had the most impact on the NHL?

Do players have an impact on new teams?”

 

These are the sub questions that my teacher and I came up with. We also started to try and find somebody to interview. The person that you are interviewing has to be an expert from your topic. We have to do research about all of the sub questions. We also learned how to find websites that can be trusted with collecting information. 

So far in this project I think I’m doing really good on the main inquiry questions and the sub questions. We started researching all of the sub questions. Throughout the 2 weeks I think I have made a lot of progress and improvement in research and coming up with questions.