Month: November 2023

Im back with another ATTACK on Digital Literacy, so far I got some good marks on the Spot The Troll quiz like more than half because we already did most of them but its the thought that counts right? I also tried the Can You Spot The Fake News Headlines and I got 2 correct right off the hop and I got to stir crazy that I answered the other 4 wrong… 2 out of 6 good ENOUGH. Then for my ego, I went back and redid it and got 100% *Remember its the thought that counts.

Wowzers I was playing Break the Fake and I was amazed by this one!

Photos taken from the Website https://mediasmarts.ca/quiz/2/take/4/feedback question

The photo looked so fake but I guess its real! What a crazy world we live in.

Okay this one was misleading I thought the pigeons were the pins or something I said FAKE but its real.

Taken from https://mediasmarts.ca/quiz/2/take/6/feedback Break the Fake question 6

Gosh darn it.. I was even doing research

screenshots taken from https://mediasmarts.ca/quiz/2/take/7/feedback break the fake and google search

Well I got 4 out of 8 on this one 50% Ill take it!! Im a glass half full kinda guy.

The 3 quizzes I played Spot The Troll, Fake News, and Break the Fake were really fun games to do by myself and it was actually fun to learn how im about 50% willing to accept things at face value.

When things are fun learning becomes easier and by doing these quizzes made me realize if I had fun doing this other students may also and in NCTE definition of it, is how effective digital literacy is, by doing quizzes like these that only take 5 or so minutes of your day, it can really stick to those young people who have an attention span of a adhd dog. SQUIRREL!!! boom done.

I feel that when we did this durning our zoom class was more fun than doing it alone because we got to interact with each other and have different opinions, this should be in more classes with teenagers because they love gossip and debating so they would learn better.

Helloo, I tried the hour of code but it only took me about 20 minutes to finish a course. I had fun I guess? I tried a couple of other ones on both websites Hour of Code and Scratch but I dont know which one I like more because Hour of Code had a more variety of choices but it also led me to a different website to try the games and some of them I had to sign in with my Gmail.

But the one I did do was called “Pile of Sticks”

I took screenshots of my progress while I was doing it.

I did this last week but I forgot to make a post.

Comment what games you’ve tried.

I had a lot of ideas for some projects I would’ve liked to learn but I am kind of a Jack of all trades (Lies) I wanted to try to learn something new. I like to pick up random things when I get bored and I am usually bored most of the time.

I wanted to braid hair because at some point I had long hair and wanted to do something cool like corn rows but it was hard doing it on myself. It took me a lot of tries to teach myself how to do it ( I did not use any YouTube videos or anything) I just had some experience braiding my sister’s hair. It was hard learning it on myself but I found it was easier doing Dutch braids on myself than others. It was fun doing hairstyles on myself and others.

Then I wanted to start cutting hair and doing fades and everything. I had a friend teach me the basics and I watched YouTube videos and practiced on a lot of my friends over and over again. I got pretty good and have been doing it for 2 and a half years already and probably cut around 120 heads per year.

I tried “Waves” in my hair which takes a long time to do because it’s constant brushing with a bristle brush for the hair to stay matted and have a wave-like look but my hair is straight so it didn’t look as good as people with a curlier pattern.

Right now I am doing dreads on myself and i’ve been doing it for about 5-6 months now and when it gets long enough I want to start doing barrel braids, two strand twists, etc. I really became a hair freak at this point of time because I tried many hairstyles and learned so much about hair, thickness of a single hair, curl patterns, growth rates, and a ton of other things. So together I’ve been braiding and cutting hair for about 3-4 years now.

In that time I also started getting into Native american beading where started making lanyards first and that takes a long time 7-8 hours because its putting one bead on at a time called peyote stitch and than I started making medallions which take up to 8-10 hours depends on how big the medallion is and earrings that take up to 1-3 hours depends on the design. I’ve been doing it for about 3 years and I continue to do it in my free time. I also do the double stitch method for beading medallions which means 2 needles instead of the usual 1 needle.

Rubiks cubes were fun to do and I mastered the 3×3 2×2 and a triangle one, right now im working on a 4×4.

I have a bunch of random projects i like to start and kinda give up when it gets boring but Spanish has been fun.

P.S my “Add Media” wont let me put in images i dont know why? it was letting me before.

Links if you want to learn how to cut hair, bead, or solve a rubiks cube.

I usually watch Faded Culture on Youtube if I want to get some fade tips. Here is a beginners tutorial. On fading hair.

Two Wolf Studio on Youtube is a great teacher on walking people through the basics of making a medallion and other bead work.

Solving a rubiks cube was hard at first but I got used to it. J perm on youtube shows great tutorials and here is a beginners tutorial

I am also good at painting and drawing.