So as I mentioned in a post I did earlier this week,on Monday to Wednesday myself as well as Nemo, Jade and Ms.Silverman were at a Toronto Star workshop learning about audio and video, writing for web, useing google maps as visual aid for story telling and a bit on photography.
On Day 1, we got there a few minutes late. A table was made for us to use our laptops on(we were the only students at the workshop btw). We had to set up a Blogger account and a Twitter account T.T(I don't really like Twitter :/)and listen to one of our host talking about different sites for social networking(ie Facebook,Myspace,Twitter). Then one of our speakers came up and explained how maps can be an effective visual tool for stroy telling so we had to create our own maps on google to tell a story from our childhood. For another part, Nemo,Jade and myself were very bored by our host. Nemo fell asleep(although it didn't help that she didn't sleep the night before) and Jade and myself had big a conversation on Facebook and a mini one on Twitter. The food there was pretty good though. In the mornings they have sesame seed bread(I didn't have that)and raisin muffins aswell as an assortment of tea and coffee. In the afternoons the had apple pie,cupcakes,and carrot cake.
Day 2 was the best out of the three days beacuse we learned a bit on photography and different cameras and microphones.Our next assignment was that we had to make a video about things to do or see on Queens Quay,Team L.O.L and a jouralist named Allison did a multi-media video on Street Meat. We recorded video, took pictures, conducted interviews and ate lunch. Once that's all done we went back to the Toronto Star building and started to edit the video. The video wow'ed everybody and it didn't help than Nemo's blog was the single best looking blog entered into the blog beauty contest.
Day 3 then went back to being boring, which disapointed me a lot because I had high hopes for day 3 because day 2 was so fun. On day 3 we learned about how to write for the web. A lot of the things he was talking about were the exact same things the Mr.Koczij had talked about regarding web structure. This assignment was to report a fake news story about a Sea Monster in the Eastern Gap useing Vuvox,Twitter or Blogger. Nemo won the blog beauty contest and won us all free Toronto Star jackets.
The next day I come back to school. I forgot to tell all of my teachers that I would be attending the Toronto Star workshop for 3 days not to mention the 3 days of work to catch up on. I was also supposed to usher for Spring Sensations, a function where the school provides dinner and live music...but I couldn't because I had to work on Yearbook like I've been doing all week..with the exception of one day where by the time I got to the school, the yearbook team went home.So unfortunatly I had to ditch Spring Sensations and I forgot about recording some footage for L.O.L because I've been working on yearbook all night.
I died that same night because as soon as my face hit the pillow, I was out like a light.
Finally, still tired fron Thursday, went to school and wrote 2 test. 1 for Math and the other for Canadian History both of which I think I did pretty good.Sadly enough I still don't know what I'm doing on my web design assignment and I've gotten started of my painting for art. Then surprise, surprise afterschool I went to work on Yearbook until 5:30. Overall it's been a pretty busy week... I'm just glad that it's a long weekend and I don't really have to think about school until Tuesday :)
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