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Capstone Journey

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My fifth grade research based capstone project has had its ups and downs. In this blog post I will be talking about my capstone experience for doing my research, writing my essay, choosing between a TED Talk or WeVideo, and completing my TED Talk. So keep on reading to find out more!

Many things went well for capstone, one reason it went well is because of the topic I picked to write about and another because of the timing of doing my research. One example of what went well for the topic I picked for capstone is, it was very easy to find some of the articles that had the research I wanted to get. That is because when I was trying to search up for the articles I was trying to find, there weren’t any random sites with random facts I didn’t want. That is because there are only 3 million modern architects in the world currently, compared to the other jobs that have tens or hundreds of million people working in that job. So whenever I wanted to find what I was looking for, there wouldn’t be a lot of random things about my one topic. One example of what went well for the timing of doing my research for capstone is, I didn’t feel stressed for how much time I had to do my research. That is because we had a really long time to finish everything, so I felt less pressure on my shoulders to be doing research for my capstone every second of the day. In summary, many things went well for capstone, from the topic I picked to write about and to the timing of doing my research.

When writing my essay it was pretty challenging, from creating my layout, to converting my research into an essay, and editing everything myself. The reason why it was hard for me to do my layout was because it was hard from my perspective, to figure out what should be in what place. The reason why converting my research into an essay  was hard for me, was because I had never really done something quite like that. So I didn’t really know what to put in my writing, and what to keep out of my writing. The reason why editing everything for myself was challenging was because it was hard for me to change a lot of my own writing. I say that because I had worked really hard for my writing, and it felt weird to me to have to change a lot of it. My main inquiry question was “what are the top ways modern architecture affects society?” To answer that question, I researched how modern architecture affects the work environment, sports stadiums, people with disabilities, and the environment. Capstone Essay Link. In summary, doing my layout, converting my research to my essay, and editing my essay was pretty challenging throughout writing my capstone essay.

I chose a TED Talk for a few reasons, one reason was because I wanted to experience talking to parents about the topic I was interested about, another reason was because I thought about how I had done a WeVideo many times though I have never done a TED Talk before. The reason why I wanted to talk about the topic I was interested in to the parents is, I would be able to share what I think about a topic to people that might not have thought that way about the topic. It would also be something new that I had never done before, especially doing it infront of parents. The reason why I had thought about how I had done a WeVideo many times though I have never done a TED Talk before is because, throughout 3-5 grade I have done at least 4 WeVideos. While for TED Talks, from 3-5 grade I haven’t done 1 before until I was going to do capstone. I also just wanted to try and do something new for a project, instead of doing something I have already done. When completing my script for the TED Talk, it was pretty easy to me, because all I really had to do was just copy the words from the narrative. Then I just had to figure out the timing, and what picture I was going to use for each slide. The most enjoyable part of my script template was seeing how much I was getting done so fast. That is because it showed me I was getting closer and closer to being able to complete my capstone assignment. One of the challenges I faced was making sure that each slide was under 15 seconds. The reason why it was challenging was because I had to make sure I didn’t cut any sentence in half, while worrying about the timing. Ted Talk Script Template. In summary I chose to do a TED Talk because I wanted to experience talking to parents about the topic I was interested in. Another reason was because I thought about how I had done a WeVideo many times though I have never done a TED Talk before. And there was a process to how I created my template, what I enjoyed about it, and the challenges I faced.

The process of completing my TED Talk had its ups and downs. The thing I enjoyed most about completing my TED Talk was memorizing the script, that is because I felt so accomplished for being able to memorize something that was 5 minutes of speech, that I had to learn from off the top of my head. It also made me realize if I could do that then I could do many other things that seemed impossible, though in reality weren’t. The thing that was challenging was having to memorize my TED Talk script, even though I enjoyed it I also found it most challenging. That is because even though it wasn’t the most challenging to memorize each slide, it was really hard to remember the order, when to switch the slide, and what slide goes with what. It took me a lot of hours of hard work to be able to get closer and closer to memorizing the full thing. And it was far more challenging than picking out the pictures that match what I was talking about, while not being blurry. In summary, the process of completing my TED Talk had its ups and downs for a number of reasons.

In conclusion, capstone has been a really fun project with its ups and downs for multiple reasons. Now that I have finished this project, try and think how your capstone experience went for you.

Immigrant Documentary

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Have you ever made a documentary about someone? Well I just have, in this blog post I will be talking about the process of making my video, and what I have learned as a result of this project. So keep on reading to find out more!

My experience making the video wasn’t as good as I had thought it would be. That is because, when I started doing my script I thought I was in a really good position, and felt like I was a step ahead of everybody else. That was until I realized I had to change my whole script to sound just like a story, not a narrative. That step back felt really bad, because I had spent a lot of time on my script just to know I had to change the whole thing. After I had finally finished my script, I had to get photos, and not only photos from my dad who was my interviewee. But I also had to get photos that fully matched my script, and that were also from wevideo. So that wasn’t very good either. After I had finished getting all my pictures and putting them all into place, which also wasn’t the best. I had to do a voice over. To me it was like a breath of fresh air, because it was really easy compared to the other things I had to do. That is because for the voice over all you had to do was just read your script, and try to match up with your pictures. In all, my experience making the video wasn’t the greatest.

I had learned many things as a result from the immigration project. I learned a lot of things that I didn’t know before about my dad that I know now. Like how he taught at both Brandeis and Harvard, I only knew that he just taught, and I didn’t even know where. Another thing I learned as a result of the project was conducting an interview. Like I learned how to pace myself and wait for the interviewee to stop and think about the question, and don’t stop them when they are talking, and also nod to show them I am understanding what they are saying. One more thing that I learned as a result of the project was how to create a proper video. I had made many videos before, but for this one it was the longest and I had to put most work into it. I have also only done one other video this year, and because it wasn’t just last week I remembered and learned new things. Like how to customize the photos, or edit and change the music. In all, I learned many things as a result from the immigration project.

In conclusion, in this blog post I talked about the process of making my video, and what I had learned as a result of this project. So now that I have finished my immigration project, have you ever done an immigration project?

Feature Article

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Have you ever written a big piece of writing? Well I have, I just finished writing and publishing my feature article. In this blog post I am going to be talking about the things I enjoyed, and found tough for the writing and formatting on my feature article. So keep reading to find out more! 

When I was writing my feature article, I enjoyed a few things, but I also found a few things challenging. One of the things I enjoyed about writing my feature article was writing about the activity that I like most (soccer). This is because writing about soccer felt so easy to write about since I knew it so well, it also didn’t take long to think about any of my writing. There are a few things that were challenging about writing my feature article. One of the things was editing my writing. The reason for this is that you have to find every small mistake with punctuation, spelling, and even how it sounds. In all, I enjoyed many things about my feature article, I also found some things pretty challenging. 

There were a few things that I enjoyed about formatting my feature article, but there are also a few things I found difficult about formatting my feature article. I enjoyed playing around with all the shapes and sizes to get the format that I liked most. It also felt really really cool to see how the end product turned out after I had finished everything.  Even though I really enjoyed formatting my feature article, there were some tough parts. One of the tough things was making my format perfect for the writing I have. I needed to have all the shapes and boxes fit with all the writing, pictures, and captions, and still make it all look good all together. In all, I enjoyed formatting my feature article, even if there were some obstacles in the way.

In conclusion, I talked about the things I found enjoyable, and the things I found challenging for my writing and formatting on my feature article. I still don’t know something though, how would you think writing a feature would feel like?

Ignite

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Finally today was the day that I was going to find out about my weather group. I was so nervous and excited since I knew it was going to be a big project. We were all sitting in our seats waiting for who was going to be called in for our groups. I didn’t mind which weather group I will be in since they are all just similar, because they are just a regular weather event. And my weather group is… Tornadoes! I was so excited to just get started researching.

When I was doing the research for my weather event of Tornadoes, on the first day it was really hard. And so was on the second day because I was doing the research wrong. But by the third day since I kept on doing more research and  kept on practicing it started to become easier and easier. And now it finally made sense and I started doing three to two pages per day. Now it was the fourth and last day of research I was pretty excited that I was getting closer and closer to be presenting my ignite.

Now that research was over I had to write a narrative. I knew I would have to take the most important parts of my research and put it in my narrative. That took about one to three days, because I had to get all the good words into my narrative. I found it a little bit easy since I had already done that in an old unit. Now it was time to put my good words and details from my narrative into my script because my entire speaking of the presentation was thirty seconds. Now that I have done that I realized a problem, a big one. My script was too long. My script had to be thirty seconds, it was forty. This was a big problem to me because I thought I had all the best parts in, and I could have, but I had to cut out a part. It was hard to decide, so I stuck with it for a few days until one of my friends told me I was reading my script way too fast. And that is when I decided I needed to make a change. I looked over everything twice, that is when I realized a big part that was there for no reason. So I made a big decision, and that was to delete that part. Now by that time I was already done reading and fixing my script. Now it was time for memorizing.

At first I thought that memorizing the ENTIRE script was going to be impossible, because I have never actually been able to memorize something so well that I can read it in my head. So I got pretty worried, after every single day after working on it for homework and school I still couldn’t memorize. I just didn’t get why it didn’t click for me. After two days of memorizing I only got to memorize my introduction. I was in a pretty bad position. It was now Monday and the real presentation was on Monday next week. I still had some hope in myself thankfully. Now it was Tuesday and I somehow had actually memorized but I couldn’t read it out loud until today. At first I had no self confidence in memorizing it this morning, but then it just started to click. And it got easier and easier and easier.

But for one of the first times of working on my script other people in my class had the same problem as me too. The problem was my pacing. I had it timed out in everything but I just got kind of nervous and spoke too fast. I realized that I was getting closer and closer to the real presentation. (It was Thursday). On Friday I really didn’t get nervous anymore since I had practiced it in front of the class many times. It was now Saturday and I kept on getting better and better with my pacing and memorizing. And the same type of work I put in on Saturday I did the same thing on Sunday. Now it was the day, the day I have been waiting for, for one and a half months. I was ready to do the big presentation, and you are allowed to see it.

 

Tornado/ Tsunami Venn Diagram

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For the Venn Diagram, it was much easier for me to do Tornadoes effects than Tsunamis effects. Because I already had my research for Tornadoes but I just had to get the good words out of it, but for the Tsunamis I had to do all my research and get the good words out of it again. They were similar because they were both effects.