Vicky's 2 minutes to make a difference final reflection

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First draft


Final Cut


- The changes we made for version 2 were we recorded our voice again because the audio was very bad. We changed the font. We added more information. We also added why we needed to make a difference because in our first draft we didn't include that.

- We were searching the internet for companies or programs that are about povert, Kim found one and she contacted them and asked them questions. She gave us a lot of the answers that we could not find out ourselves. Such as:

• Poverty prevents people from living to their fullest potential.
• Many children who grow up in poverty have difficulty doing well at school or drop out of school.
• This often means that they aren’t able to use all of the skills and talents that they have to contribute to our society.

- Our greatest success I guess was re-doing the video and recording before the due date. I think the skills I will take on later in the future is to use the time I have.

- I think the hardest part of the video was staying on task. Because we always got distracted. Another thing that fustrated me was recording because there was a small time frame to include so much narration.

- I think it's important to the grade 8's because we are at that we only think of ourselves. And by doing this we are thinking of others, not us. By this we are awaring people of these events that are happening.

- In the future what I would try to do to help is to donate money, food, & other things.

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Kisha's 2 Minutes to Make a Difference Final Reflection

1. Google Documents Slide Show



Version 1


Final Cut



2. The students comments were very helpful. They pointed out mistakes that we never noticed and fixed them right away. We've tooken out some pictures, added the interviewer, fixed some grammar, added how we could make a difference, and put the credits at the end of the video.

3. We looked up on google, and searched for poverty experts. We emailed all the ones we could find, and barely any of them answered in time, thats why we added it in the second video. Fortunately she replied back to our email a day before the final cut was due, and we got to get lots of information. We asked her how we could help, she said we could donate to charities, raise awareness and tell others about poverty, volunteer at local poverty organizations and we could ask our mom and dad to only buy fair trade food products. We learned from our expert that there are many different kind of ways we could make a difference.

6. I think that our greastest success in our project is the information that we put into our video. We got lots of important points, and we've learned from it that poverty is a serious situation. We used Windows Movie Maker to make our project, I think that i'll use that in the future because its very easy to use, and its really fun.

7.What frustrated me the was that we couldn't find an expert in time. When the first video was due, I wasn't sure if we could get it into our project. I've been emailing people for weeks and weeks, but everyone was so busy, and most of them didn't reply at all. I thought we would never find an expert. Then i asked Mr.Harbeck if we could put it into our second video, he said he would just add on the marks after he saw the second video. I wasn't sure if we'd even find one, but at the last second someone emailed us back and replied with lots of information.

8. I think that this project is very important to us because we need to learn how and why we should make a difference. If everyone participated in making all these changes to the issues in the world, they would all be fixed. I think we did this project to raise awareness about all the issues, and show how we should make a difference.

9. When my closet is getting too full, I will take the time to sort out which ones I want, don't fit, or some that I don't wear. Then I will keep the ones that I usually wear and put the others I don't need into a big bag. I could also do this with some other objects I don't need. After that, all i'll have to do is call someone to pick it up, or drive to a local charity organization and give away all the things I don't need to the poor. That way i'm helping others, rather than throwing useful stuff into the garbage.

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Abby's 2 Minutes to Make a Difference Final Reflection

2 Minutes to Make a Difference Final Reflection

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Version1




Final Cut





2. One of the thing that changed from Version1 to Final Cut, is that I lessen the credits and I also added voice in it. And yes, the comments were really helpful.

3. n/a (i didnt find an expert)

4. n/a

5. I was unsuccesful of finding an expert because I sort of ran out of time because you see I had to redo mine all over again because someone accidentally deleted my google doc and I only had 3 days to finish it because the first version is due soon.

6. The greatest success I achieve in this project is that in my speech, most of the information I said are from my own knowledge.

7. What frustrated me during the movie making progress is that I've got so little time to do my google doc and the first version but I didnt give up because I dont want to get low grades..

8. This project is important to us grade8ers because it helps us to be a better person.

9. I will make a difference in the future by saving electricity, not littering, riding my bike, walking to school and many more.

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Darnell's 2 Minutes to Make a Difference Final Reflection

Google Document

Video Version 1

Final Cut

Please reflect and talk about the changes you made between the first and final cut of your movie. Were the student comments helpful in making your final cut better?
- Several changes has happened from version 1 to the final cut. We had to add the voice in the background so the video doesn't look boring. I actually had to lower the volume of the background music so people could actually hear our voices. We have deleted several repeated pictures in headings, and also added the credits and bibliography. The student comments were helpful in a big way. During the making of the final cut, we actually looked at the comments on our version 1 and took the time to make the changes.

How did you find your expert? List 3 important points your expert added to your movie. What did you learn from your expert?
- We have found several experts through family members and the internet. But the problem is that, the experts that we had connection with, didn't want to give us information on animal testing. The reason was because the information is confidential.

We have 1 important point we have added that our experts have told us is..

- The information is confidential and can't be shared.

We couldn't get more information except for that 1 important heading from each expert we contacted.

What was your greatest success in the 2 minutes project. What skills will you take away with you and use in the future?

- Our greatest success in the 2 minutes project is actually finishing the projects. Lots of hard work has been put in the project and i believe it turned out pretty great.

- The skills i would take away with me and use in the future would be my video editing. I've just started using a new program on video program and i think it turned out well in the final cut.

What frustrated you during the movie making process? What strategies did you use to become successful?
- What frustrated me during the movie making process was actually rendering the video. Lots of problems happened for example, when i play the video. The strategies i have used to become successful we're just focusing on finishing and putting lots of effort into the project.

Why is the 2 Minutes project important to Grade 8 Students?

- I think the 2 minutes project is important to grade 8 students is because we need to get in touch with the community and the changes its been having.

How will you make a difference in the future?

- How will I make a difference in the future? Nobody actually knows. There are a lot of problems happening around us and we all need to pitch in to help out.

-DARNELL LADESMA

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Kim's 2 Minutes to Make a Difference Final Reflection

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Version 1


Final Cut

Please relect and talk about the changes you made between the first and final cut of your movie. Were the student comments helpful in making your final cut better?

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Please reflect and talk about the changes you made between the first and final cut of your movie. Were the student comments helpful in making your final cut better?

-The changes we made for version 2 is that we recorded our voices again to make our voices understandable compared to the first version we made. We also added more information and reasons why the viewers should care about poverty, and we made the expert's email to us larger for the viewers to see the image clearly. The comments were definitely helpful for us because without their comments, we wouldn't honestly know what was missing in the video we made.

How did you find your expert? List 3 important points your expert added to your movie. What did you learn from your expert?
-We found our expert by searching in the internet then I found a company where they help children who are living in poverty. The expert that we contacted actually helped us a lot by answering our questions about poverty in Africa, we added the information she gave us such as:

• Poverty prevents people from living to their fullest potential.
• Many children who grow up in poverty have difficulty doing well at school or drop out of school.
• This often means that they aren’t able to use all of the skills and talents that they have to contribute to our society.

We learned many things from our expert, like, successful strategies on the reduction of poverty such as; Increasing government spending so that education and important social programs (health care, housing, etc) are provided to people living in poverty can make a big difference and Increasing the minimum wage and putting in strict laws to make sure that people have good working conditions.

What was your greatest success in the 2 minutes project. What skills will you take away with you and use in the future?
-Our greatest success on this project would be finishing it and making it better because as we were doing the project, there was never a time that we didn't get distracted. The skill that I will be taking with me in the future is trying to make a difference by starting out small like the video we just made as a group.

What frustrated you during the movie making process? What strategies did you use to become successful?
-The thing that frustrated me during the making of our movie was that we were always laughing that we had difficulties on finishing the movie. We succeeded our goal on finishing the movie by coordinating with each other and became really serious about the project.

Why is the 2 Minutes project important to Grade 8 Students?
-The 2 minutes project is important to us because we now reached the age where we have to start realizing that there are many people in the world that are living in a state in where they are really struggling to go through life every single day. We are very blessed because of the life we are living now and we would like to share this blessing by making a difference and starting small.

How will you make a difference in the future?
-I will try my best to make a difference by donating things that are not needed and think about the children who are living in poverty that would die for water and food.

Please relect and talk about the changes you made between the first and final cut of your movie. Were the student comments helpful in making your final cut better?

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Jemineth's 2 Minutes To Make A Difference Final Reflection

• Google Document
  

• 2 Minutes To Make A Difference Version 1

• 2 Minutes To Make A Difference Final Copy
  

• Please reflect and talk about the changes you made between the first and final cut of your movie. Were the student comments helpful in making your final cut better?

There are many changes we did to our version 1 movie project. One is by changing the font color to something that's more visible and making it a larger size so that the reader will not have a hard time reading the message being projected from the computer screen. Another thing is that we changed the motion to make it slower, the difference that this makes is that the reader will not run out of time to read the text. Last, when it came to the interviewing part we lowered down the background music so that when Robin Bryan gives his statement to our question he will he heard loud and clear, and to help with that we even added the words he says, this will help the reader understand what his trying to say. Yes, the comments we received from our fellow students we're very helpful. This is because they were able to see the bad qualities of our first draft that we didn't see and they helped us make a better difference to our project. So thank you for all the comments :)

• How did you find your expert? List 3 important points your expert added to your movie. What did you learn from your expert?

We found our expert by doing some research. We found him on Google , this was done by typing keywords such as " environmental activists in Winnipeg " and fortunately he was there. We were lucky because throughout our research we found that he works at a building nearby called the "Wilderness Committee". So what we did was we contacted him and asked if we were allowed to drop by with adult supervision for interview and he didn't decline us. There were many things he told us that were very understandable. He said that as youths there aren't major things that we can do to make a difference, but there are a lot of minor things, things such as recycling, using recycled things, and picking up waste just lying around. Another thing was that since we are still in the childhood years he's not suggesting that we focus too much on how we can make the environment a lot better although it would be nice. This is because he said that right now education is more important to focus on right now, and that later on when we get older we can decide wether we will help make a difference and how without expecting recognition. But out of all the things he said this particular phrase is the one that hit me the most and it is "We can't look at our environment as a finite resource like it's going to last forever, if we don't accept to protect it". There are many things i've learned and most of them i've already mentioned, they are do what we can do for now, but don't forget about education.

• What was your greatest success in the 2 minutes project. What skills will you take away with you and use in the future?

I think my greatest success was being able to take action after understanding and learning about the damages in the environment. The skills that i would use and take away with me in the future i would say would be, to ask questions about things i don't know because this will add on to my knowledge, another thing is that don't be afraid to take action if i know that this will do me better, and if necessary it will do others better too.

• What frustrated you during the movie making process? What strategies did you use to become successful?

Since there wasn't really anything that frustrated me I would just go with finding highly effective images that will draw the audience attention. The strategy that i began to use and helped me with success is by searching with the most important keywords.

• Why is the 2 Minutes project important to Grade 8 Students?

The 2 Minutes To Make A Difference project is important to grade 8 students in many ways. One is that it gives us the ability to learn/ see / and understand other things in the world going on that needs MORE attention such as " POVERTY, ANIMAL CRUELTY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM" other than ourselves. Another thing is that as a youth we can help spread the words "2 Minutes To Make A Difference" and explain to young children like us what it means. This particular action I believe is more powerful than adults trying to explain to children because having young minds and young thoughts it will give other children and youths better understanding to what things needs attention. Last but most importantly it enables and encourages us to make a difference and take action if we can do it,
all together ....making a never ending chain of ...............
Y O U T H S

M A K I N G

A D I F F E R E N C E :)

• How will you make a difference in the future?

I will make a difference by taking action only if they will do anyone or anything better, and remembering that i can't depend on others to start but i can only depend on myself.

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RAQUEL'S 2 MINUTES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE REFLECTION

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2. Yes, the students comments on our video was very helpful. We changed some punctuations and some spelling errors.

3 & 4. We looked at our websites on our google docs and we emailed them or search up an expert on poverty and emailed them too. This is what an expert on extreme poverty told us..
- The most effective way is to donate to local charities.
- We could volunteer to work at a local organization that works against poverty.
-We could raise the awareness by telling others about poverty, and we could ask our mom or dad to buy fair trade products, so people could get paid a fair wage for their work.

6. My greatest success on making the movie is that we all worked together and we completed the assignment. I would use the ideas from the video and make a difference in the future.

7. The frustrating part of the movie making is that we had to find an expert and also, the music. Because, we had to make the cut out parts of the song and place it to a part where we want it to go. For the expert all we did was email a lot of experts and for the music there was none, we just tried to put it in the right spot.

8. I think this project is important to us, because if we didn't do this project we would know how to make a difference in the world. There are many types of issues going on in the world and without trying to make a difference the world would be a bad place.

9. Well, there are many ways we can help make a difference in Poverty. Such as donating to local charities or we can work at a place that helps stop poverty like the Solam Mission. There's many more ! We can all make a change if we were willing to make one.

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