Kathleen's 2 Minutes to Make a Difference Final Reflection

1. Please embed your Google Doc, Version 1 and Final cut of your movie.

Google Doc.

Version 1.



Final Cut.





2. 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?
There were few mistakes that we changed throughout the first and final cut of our movie. The first thing that we changed was the blinking effect on the text. Also, we fixed our spelling, punctuation and grammar mistakes. We made some words length longer so that the other people can read them properly. The last one was adding all the credits in so people knew were we got our pictures and all the other stuff. Yes, I think the students comments was very helpful making our final cut better because they were the one that told us to take off the blinking effect on the words because it was very distracting. Also, the students were the one that told us to make the words longer or shorten it so they can read it.

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

Three important things that the expert added to our movie was;

• Girls do not get education because the most important reason would be Poverty.
• Allowing girls to receive an education would be the first step to ending Poverty.
• Supporting a girl in Africa would be very cheap.

What I learned from our expert is that the reason why girls in Africa don't have education is because they don't have enough money to pay for it.

4. How did you find your expert?
We found our expert through Google. Well, all we did was search up a foundation that was related to our topic or someone that helps Girls in Africa. It wasn't really that hard because there was a lot of organizations that was trying to help. After looking through sites, we found this site; Batonga Foundation. We emailed the person if we can ask them a few questions. After they emailed back and we planned when we can ask her questions over the phone. Our experts name was Stephanie Cate, she gave us a lot of information that was very important.

6. 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 our greatest success in the 2 minute project was the interview with Stephanie Cate because she gave us some great information that we didn't know. She explained everything well, and she spoke clearly to make us understand more about the girls in Africa. I would like to take my skills on working with others to use in the future because when I work with others I tend to participate more and understand the work much better.

7.What frustrated you during the movie making process? What strategies did you use to become successful?
I think what frustrated our group during the movie making process was the editing part. Because we didn't really know how to make our video more appealing to the others. Well, I don't really know what strategies we used, we just stay relaxed and used all the time that we can to finish our movie in time.

8. Why is the 2 Minutes project important to Grade 8 Students?
I think the project is important to the Grade 8 students because this project shows us that we are really lucky that we aren't in the situation were we have problems getting money, food, shelter and more. Also, at first some students didn't have any idea what other people are going through. So then we did this project and now students know what is happening.

9. How will you make a difference in the future?
In the future, I will make a difference by helping out the community like throwing garbage in the right place, recycling, and by donating clothes or unwanted stuff in a store that wants it. I would like to help out other countries too like, donating money or other things. I know I would only give a little bit of help yet it could still make a change to the environment.

Carla's 2 Minutes to Make a Difference Final Reflection

Please embed your Google Doc, Version 1 and Final cut of your movie.

Google Doc

Version 1

Final Cut

Please reflect and talk about the changes you made between the first and final cut of your movie.

The changes we made were that we put captions so that people will know what we are talking about. We made the voices louder so that everyone could here Elona and Charis. Elona did most of the editing. We still didn't make a difference, we were planning to raise money by selling old things of ours and sending the money to the Philippines. But yeah we didn't have enough time to do it.

Were the student comments helpful in making your final cut better?

Yes, the comments were helpful. They all basically said the same thing like "You should make your voices louder, I can't hear it." and "You guys didn't really make a difference." Some people said "You didn't interview anyone." I did interview someone, I guess they didn't really watch the whole movie. But yeah, most of the comments were helpful.

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

The expert I interviewed was my cousin. I just thought that she would know something about poverty in the Philippines because she lives there. Some points my cousin added to the movie is that there are corruptions there, people who take advantage of others and don't respect their duty as a servant. She also said that she is in the field of health, she's a nurse over there. She said that she could help people for free. Another thing my cousin said was how she as an individual, serve her country. She does the best she can in her studies and help her family. I learned a lot from her, I already explained all the things I learned about her.

How did you find your expert?

The expert I found was my cousin, we communicated through Facebook.

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

My greatest success was the interview, it was different from all the others. I was happy when Mr. Harbeck said it was clever. Um, I want to use my skills to think up of more unique ideas. I also want to interview people in different ways. I like interviewing people, it's fun to get to know different people.

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

What frustrated me was when Elona and Charis came over, they weren't really concentrated on the making the movie and played with my computer. But we worked things out. Another thing that frustrated me was making the first version of the movie, It was difficult because everyone in my group was depending on me to get it done. Strategies that I used to become successful was that I just focused on finishing the movie as best as possible. Just doing the best of my abilities.

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

This project is important because it gives us a chance to learn about what is going on in the world, it's not just the fun and games. Some people don't even give a care about the unfortunate, they just go on in their life. Well they should care, because most of the world is poor. Grade 8 students shouldn't be the ONLY ones making a difference, It should be everyone.

How will you make a difference in the future?

There are so much things I could do. What I would do for starters is just simply pick up waste and garbage so the world can be clean. When I grow up, I want to help more in the community, like start new charities and stuff. But I don't know If that is possible, but others say "It's possible if you believe." I also want to help other countries in need.

Jim's Fraction Growing Post

Part 1: Fraction x Fraction 2/3 x 5/6 = 10/18 or 5/9

How I got the answer: Numerator x Numerator and Denominator x Denominator and if you can simplify then simplify.

Part 2: Mixed Fraction x Fraction 1 1/5 x 2/5 = 12/25

How i got the answer: You have to change the mixed fraction into a improper fraction, so 1 1/5 as a mixed fraction is 6/5 and how i got 6/5 is 5 is the denominator and 5+x 1+1= 6. After you change it to an improper fraction, you have to multiply the improper fraction and the normal fraction together. And what I got was 12/25


Part 3: Mixed Fraction x Mixed Fraction 5 1/3 x 3 1/3= 17 7/9

How i got the answer: You have to change both mixed fractions into improper fractions. So 5 1/3 as a improper fraction is 16/3 and 3 1/3 as a improper fraction is 10/3. So now you have to times them together, and you get 160/9 and you can change that into a mixed fraction, which is 17 7/9




I Still Need To Do The Other Fraction Growing Post, like record the quiz and other things

Giuseppe's Fraction Growing Post

Using one question from questions 6 or 7 on page 202 of the textbook, explain two ways to multiply a fraction by a whole number. You should use pictures to help explain.

6. Determine each product usingmanipulatives or diagrams.

Using one question from questions 4 or 5 on page 208 of the textbook, explain how to divide a fraction by a whole number. You should use pictures.

6. Two different South Indian fish curries, called dhopa and molee curry, both include coconut.

a) Dhopa requires 1/2 a coconut to make two servings. What fraction of a coconut is in each serving?

b) Molee curry requires 1/2 a coconut to make four servings. What fraction of a coconut is in each serving?

Riemer's Fraction Growing Post

Using one question from questions 6 or 7 on page 202 of the textbook, explain two ways to multiply a fraction by a whole number. You should use pictures to help explain.



Using one question from questions 4 or 5 on page 208 of the textbook, explain how to divide a fraction by a whole number. You should use pictures.



Pick one word problem from questions 6-12 on page 208 of the textbook.





RIEMER ADORN MUNOZ ! ;)

Aldrine's Fraction Growing Post

A) Didn't get to do it.

B) Question 6

Determine each product using manipulatives or diagrams
4x1/2

In this picture you can make 4 wholes and you cut them into halves and coulor one of the sidesThis is the other way of finding the answer.

c)Determine each quoteint

question 5: 1/2/4

D) Page 208 Question 6 b)

Fraction Growing Post 2

1) 3/4 x 7/8 =

2) 1 1/5 x 2/5 =

3) 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 =

Kamille's Fraction Growing Post

a) Post your recorded quiz.


b) Using one question from questions 6 or 7 on page 202 of the textbook, explain two ways to multiply a fraction by a whole number.
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c) Using one question from questions 4 or 5 on page 208 of the textbook, explain how to divide a fraction by a whole number.

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d) Pick one word problem from questions 6-12 on page 208 of the textbook.
A pitcher of orange juice is 2/3 full. If four students equally share the juice, what fraction of the full pitcher does each student get?

PART 2

1. Fraction x Fraction.
so the question is 2/3 X 5/6 = 10/18
How did i get 10/18 as the answer? Well first of all you need to do is multiply the numerator (2) with the numerator (5) so 5 X 2 equals 10. and multiply the denominator by the denominator. so 3 X 6 equals 18. Then if you can you put it in lowest terms which is 5/9 because if you divide 10 and 18 by 2 that's what you get.

2. Fraction x Mixed Fraction.
The question is 2/5 X 1 1/5 = 12/25
So what you need to do first is make the mixed fraction into a improper fraction. So what you do is you multiply the denominator with the whole number then you just add the numerator. for example.. ( 5 X 1 + 1 = 6 ). After that you have your improper fraction so you just multiply your new numerator with the other numerator which would be 6 x 2 = 12 and you do the same with the denominators which is 5 X 5 = 25. The whole thing would look like this... 2/5 X 6/5 = 12/25

3. Mixed Fraction x Mixed Fraction.
The question for this one is 2 3/4 X 2 3/4 = 7 9/16
To get the right answer you need to turn both of the mixed fractions into improper fractions. So what you do is you multiply the denominator with the whole number then you just add the numerator. It would look like this.. ( 4 X 2 + 3 = 11/4 ). Then you just multiply your new numerator with the other numerator which would be 11 x 11 = 121 and you do the same with the denominators which is 4 X 4 = 16. So your answer would be 121/16.. but you need to turn the mixed fraction into improper fraction so you need divide the 121 by 16. 121 goes into 16.. 7 times so that would give you 112 so you have 9 leftover and has a denominator so 16 which is now 9/16. So now the right answer is 7 9/16