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Our slide show

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Survey Citations

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Benjamin Disraeli
Hayden
Ethan Saw
Christine Tian
Brian
Makenzie
Eric
Ying Ying Fang
Jerry Hu
Gerald
Angela
Sophie
Hyewon
Tyson
Barry Yu
Cynthia
Miriam Chan
Kevin Long
Jenny
Kathleen
Ryan Wang
Cally Yeung
Edwin Yeung
Ricky lau
Sebastian
Emily
Amy
Erica Zeng
Nestor Lin
Hannah Byun
Ariel Wang
Jordan Chen
Kris Evans
Naruto Uzumaki

 

 

 

Spring Market Reflection

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  • What was, and what happened in the Spring Market

The Spring Market was a first-hand experience to put everything taught in business class, into practice. For me and my partner Ying Ying Fang, we had to complete many steps to turn our business into a reality. First, we came up with a product or service idea to sell during the spring market. Our class would then individually as separate businesses; order products, produce products, market them and price them for the Spring Market. Our business sold watches, necklaces, bracelets, and handmade roses, quite a number of products. With our large range of products, our business was able to reach greater numbers of demographics and customers. Our business had bigger costs and risks due to an increased number of products sold. Our investment paid off at the end of the market as we escaped deficit and made quite a lot of profit.

  • What was my experience in the Spring Market and what did it teach me?

We were challenged in many diverse areas to turn the market into reality. Our understanding of customer and demographics was tested in the decision to create products or services. Understanding the biggest demographic in our location ensured we would target the biggest group of consumers, increasing sales. Pricing and calculating when our product would break out of deficit, depended on the financial literacy we held. When ordering products, for example, understanding the investment for each cost made sure the product cost would not exceed the product value. If we take, ordering higher quality material, for example, that cost an additional ten dollars for ten products. But then the value of each of the products only increases by fifty cents. The product value in total only increased by five dollars. But the total investment was ten dollars, five more dollars than the product value gained, meaning the investment would be a losing decision of five dollars. This was one of many examples of financial literacy and customer understanding that was tested in the Spring Market. But the organization, punctuality and a persistent mindset were definitely softer skills that were more apparent in importance as well. But understanding supply and demand, inventory and stock, as well as cost and expenses are all academic concepts needed to run the business. I have grown the most in the skills and areas, soft or academic, all in the Spring Market.

 

  • A core competency to reflect upon

Creative Thinking

Our product was originally handmade roses. In our surveys, people were willing to buy our product and we were confident our roses would bring a profit. However, the profit we were estimated to gain from the roses was small. The price of the roses was low, and even though the cost was low as well, it did not compare to the nearly six dollar profit each of our watches sold. The idea to sell watches came when my partner realized how low our profit was going to be. We decided we needed another, higher priced product. Higher priced products tend to cost more but they also profit more money. For example, if the profit was double the cost and a product was priced two dollars, we would profit one dollar. But if we priced a product, following the previous cost and profit, at ten dollars, we would profit five dollars meaning we sell to four fewer customers to gain the same profit. There was however risk with higher priced products as we may lose buyers due to our higher prices. The risk and idea paid off when we began to profit in our second business day. Our business would have had a low-profit-margin, but with a new, original, and improved idea our business was able to grow to a number both me and my partner never expected us to grow to.

Digital Literacy and Finance Math 9

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Our Vacation Project  https://my.visme.co/projects/90yq6mym-vacation-to-cancun

“Cancun Vacation Project” – Visme.  Acessed March 15, 2019. https://my.visme.co/projects/90yq6mym-vacation-to-cancun

“Budget in a pie”- Excel.  Accessed March 15, 2019.

DL fluency reflection: Information In this Math Project, I truly believed I have accessed, acquired, authenticated, organized and used information in a fluent manner. We used popular and recommended websites to access travel information and local websites such as London drugs are additionally used. This would ensure the credibility and legitimacy of our sources as the sources are heavily used and monitored. When researching pricing for flights, insurance, and car rentals, we inserted fake credit card information to surface taxes and hidden fees. This was especially true for vacation activities, such as a docking fee for sailing that was not advertised on the website. On a google doc, organized by Debi and Me, we put down all our information and made sure it followed our vacation schedule. All the information was calculated into our budget and realistically fit into the time between other activities, the hours the activities are available and their estimated duration. All this research and careful information sourcing do prove my fluency in information.

Core Competency Reflection: Developing Ideas My partner Debi was born in Mexico and grew up in the country in her earlier years. Visiting Debi’s home town as a tourist, and having her, a long-ago local become my tour guide would’ve been the most ideal idea.  Due to many absences from both me and her, our ideas and perspectives on the project were communicated poorly. Our absences made the researching hard as we would lack the knowledge of our local one day and lack the tourist perspective another day. We decided to switch to a more mainstream vacation location as many more all-inclusive activities and tourist activities were heavily advertised. This making our researching and planning much easier which helped us catch up on our absences and major family events. This change in idea to fit our situation demonstrates my fluency in developing ideas.

What is the role of a Travel Agent:   Travel agencies often offer better price points for the customer. This is because of vacation companies partner with travel agents. The exchange works with vacation companies can offer better deals and discounts in exchange for publicity by the travel agents. Traveling agents additionally can make your vacation planning much easier. Planning vacations can be extremely tedious and the person planning could forget to plan important but small activities. These can range from checking the country’s immunization requirements and checking the legitimacy of the vacation company they are working with. The travel agents have much more experience in planning vacations and they can add in many benefits into your vacation as they also know strategies to find legitimate and deals. Travel agents, in general, make your vacation planning experience much easier as they will book, research and your vacation.

 

 

 

My Digital Foot Print

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Should I care about my digital footprint?

Your digital footprint is something to be given careful attention to. It holds power to our public profile and how we are portrayed. In job interviews, the hirers and interviewers will often google the name of the applicant. Articles posted about their criminal record is in the control of the media press. However, personal media illustrates how the applicant displays themselves as a person to their peers and to the world around them. It is a reflection of a person’s personality, interests, and hobbies. Online discussions posted, will reflect levels of maturity, worldviews and discussion styles (good or bad). This is why as an individual, your digital footprint should be respectful and professional to some degree, as it affects your chances in future jobs.

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Photograph: Dan Butcher (photographer) . 14 interview questions which all accountants must know the answers to (title) . 08 June 2017 . https://news.efinancialcareers.com/ie-en/247151/interview-questions-to-which-all-accountants-and-auditors-need-to-be-able-to-respond

Your digital footprint could affect your business and career. Some corporate companies have stained their public reputation through inappropriate or questionable posts. Their posts are public displays of their brand, what consumers are supporting and what consumers associate with the brand. It is not exclusive to big corporate companies to have preyed on careless digital footprints. Small businesses, investors and popular Hollywood stars will all lose public interest and support if their digital footprint is to be tarnished.

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Photograph: Orli Matlow (article publisher) . Oscars host Kevin Hart is deleting all his old homophobic tweets, but screenshots are forever . Dec 06, 2018@8:57 AM .  https://www.someecards.com/entertainment/entertainment/kevin-hart-oscars-host-homophobic-tweets/

What strategies should I use to keep my footprint safe?

Keeping our footprint safe can vary from having no duplicate passwords to keeping others safe in the online community. First, how should we keep ourselves safe and our digital footprint private?

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Photograph: Kristen McCabe (author) . How to retrieve a Forgotten Instagram Password. December 14, 2018 .  https://learn.g2crowd.com/forgot-instagram-password

According to a report from an article by Carly Okyle, three out of four Americans have duplicate passwords. Using a password in an unsafe, easily accessible program to hackers will leak your password to them. If you used the same password in a more secure program containing much more important information, the password keeping the information safe is ineffective as the same password has been hacked on a less secure network. To keep your passwords safe and effective, change them every five years, do not have duplicate passwords and have strong passwords. Password checkers are available such as this one. https://howsecureismypassword.net/

Photographer: John (Photographer) . How secure is my password? .  Thursday, 08/23/2012 – 20:06 . http://www.productivity-habits.com/how-secure-is-my-password

Article: Carly Okyle (Assistant Editor) . Password Statistics: The Bad, the Worse and the Ugly (Infographic) . June 3, 2015  . https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/246902

To keep your content safe and appropriate online for others, ask yourself the following questions. What’s it’s value? Does it fit your mission? Is the format the best? Is it posted at the right time? Most importantly, will you show this to your grandma?

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Photograph: Erin Myers (Photographer) . 15 Expert Tips for Social Media Etiquette .  2/1/2016 . https://www.outboundengine.com/blog/15-expert-tips-for-social-media-etiquette/ .

What is Digital Permanence? 

Digital permanence is the concept that anything that goes online, stays online forever. When a Facebook account is deactivated, you can reactivate it by logging in with the correct password and username. When a post is deleted, screenshots, downloads with mp3 and other strategies can still spread the deleted post online.  Snapchat also never deletes its self-deleting images and conversations. They are forever stored in their database. How can this impact us as students, family, and teachers?

13 and 14-year-old girls were murdered during a hike in Indiana, USA. A suspect was however found, thanks to the digital permanence of snap chat. Footage of them videotaping a man before their disappearance was self-deleted on snap chat. The video, in reality, was however saved in the snap chat database. Snap chat was able to cooperate with the police restore the video.

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Abigail J. “Abby” Williams and Liberty Rose Lynn “Libby” (Photographer) . Murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German . February 14, 2017 .  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Abigail_Williams_and_Liberty_German

A negative of digital permanence links back to the impact our first question had, our public profile. When our judgment is impaired due to drugs, alcohol or strong emotions, we can make regretful online decisions. Even with deleted posts or conversations, you may be unexpectantly tagged in a questionable photo. The content also could screenshotted, saved and downloaded. Posts will also rarely self-delete and will stay online for years.

What should you take away from this?

Kevin Hart made homophobic posts online a whole decade ago (2009). Although the posts do not represent the person he has matured to be, the digital permanence of the post was found and has impacted his reputation. Decisions made online can hit you right back even ten years later. Think carefully before you post to create a safe environment for others and yourself. Change your passwords often, vary them and make them strong. In the end, respect the golden rule; treat people the way you want to be treated. What you post online can stay there forever.

 

Electric House Project

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Left image: A full picture of our house

Right image: Four schematic diagrams of four mandatory circuits

Project Questions

  1.  Due to all lights going off when you unscrew one light bulb, this proves the electrons only had one path follow. A series circuit is a type of circuit in which the flow of electrons takes place in one path. When you unscrew one light bulb, you have cut open the one path for electrons to flow, the circuit is no longer closed.
  2. The other two lights continuing to illuminate when one is unscrewed, proving the electrons have two paths to take, making the circuit parallel. A parallel circuit is typed of a circuit where the flow of electrons takes two or more paths. When you cut the connection to one path, the flow of electrons will be continued in the second path. The electrons that originally took in the cut path will now take the second path.
  3. The intensity of the series bulb will be greater than the parallel bulbs. This is due to the current being shared between two paths in the parallel. The current in the series circuit stays consistent as the current does not need to be shared. Although the parallel bulb’s combined intensity and current are the same as the series bulb, the parallel bulb individual intensity is less than the series.
  4. In question 3, a series circuit is split into two paths making it a parallel circuit, then the paths reconnect to create a parallel circuit within a series circuit. Unscrewing a light bulb in the parallel halts the connection to one of the split paths. So all flow will be diverted to the other single connected path. This means the flow is no longer split as all electron flow is now taking the one connected path. When electron flow takes one path, the circuit is now a series circuit making all intensities of the light bulb the same.
  5. In our project, we faced the challenge of being a small group. There was always something to work on in a group of two. We also could split the work easily and everyone had a chance to contribute. Such as during the start of the project, a person could paint and draw out cut lines, while the other designed circuits and planned the measurements of every cut. Everyone always had something to do and everything was punctually executed them.

When generating ideas, I feel creativity might’ve lacked. Planning was based solely on the criteria rather than reaching for our own ideas. My partner and I were so worried about meeting the due date we simply did not prioritize time to add creative elements to the project. I do feel that the house was quite expressive to our personalities.

We had a small diversity of personalities as we had a small group. This, however, meant we could create major elements based on our interests without other members feeling conflicting due to different interests. Our film room had the background of our favourite YouTubers and we had posters of memes such as the game dumb ways to die all over the house.

Our work ethic and our personal touches were our strongest points. I feel that the creative elements could be expanded and more prioritized in our next projects.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reflection on our Video

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DL Reflection 

Collaboration

I was pleasantly surprised at every meeting. Our group overall was very punctual.  The group decided to show up to every single meeting we schedule online. Our quick responses to messages were key to our success in meeting our due date and finishing the project. We only had three classes to spend on our project and those classes were spent more on planning what we would do when we got home.

Planning was extremely important as making things up on the spot would be extremely inefficient especially when recording online rather in person. Collaboration needs planning. We needed to plan when to meet, who would do what and what to say in the film. But the majority of our project relied on people doing their assigned part and job. If one person is slow in finishing their part, the rest of the group will not be able to move forward, slowing us down and potentially causing us to not meet the deadline. We also heavily trusted each other to finish crucial parts of the project that no one else knew how to work, such as blue screens, editing soft software, and voice editing.

This trust was kept as our results show, our project was handed in on time and presents high levels of quality. I believe we achieved collaboration and group punctuality, I could have not asked more from my group.

Developing Ideas

We had a time limit of five minutes. The video is double that time limit and was ten minutes long and, we could have made it much longer. The group had many ideas we had wanted to implement into the project. But due to our time limit being exceeded by the doubled, critical and creative thinking was utilized to cut down and modify our ideas. We were open and allowed our ideas to become malleable to fit our time constraints. Even with our ideas changed, our project remained logical and all our ideas harmonized nicely together after quite a few modifications obviously. Developing ideas was done correctly and logically. Our project worked even when running into the problem of a double exceeded time limit.

This was an amazing project and my friends have taught me so much about trust, the importance of being consistent and learning about new software apps, how to use a blue screen and I discovered Minecraft through our science project. This has taught me so much more than Meiosis and Mitosis.

How does Meiosis and Mitosis work?

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Quote important to me

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Pain is temporary, pride is forever – Lance Armstrong

Making it to cross-country provincials allowed to travel to Niamo and compete with so many amazing athletes and share a common interest of cross-country. They gave out long sleeve shirt merch with this quote on the back. (There was also a subway sponsorship on the back.) This quote is so true for not only sports but also in life. I only need to dedicate four more years of my life before I can call myself a high school graduate. The stress and sleep deprivation will only last for four years. After four years, I will spend the rest of my life as a well, educated high school student.

Making provincials had me go through so much pain and time. I would have to drag myself to running practice every sunny day even when I had slept at 12 pm last night and had woken at 6 am for band. The race was only a fourteen minute and 4 kilometers. I just needed to push through the next fourteen minutes and I will achieve a lifetime of pride. This quote represents so much of my motivation and dedication in life. This is why this quote is so important to me, it represents the motivation and dedication that keeps me going, every, single, day.

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Why did I choose this video? This channel actually posts a lot of videos regarding the environment. I like the video because it broadcast multiple perspectives to one problem and often, these scientists do not take sides. I know many channels that provide facts to prove others are uneducated or their facts are biased to support one side or solution. There is no perfect solution to any problem and scientist are just here to provide the data, evidence, and options to solve them. But the real person who makes the decision is actually the government you vote for. So vote carefully and know next time, scientist are not theocratic.

Video by: https://www.youtube.com/user/scishow/videos?view=57&flow=grid (sci show)

Video via: 3 Weird, Real Ways We Could Fix Icy Roads

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