Archive for October 9th, 2008

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Photostories

October 9, 2008

Making photostories: To make a photostory you need pictures headphones and a mic to talk into. You need all this stuff because it is like a slide show that has music and talking. You can easily make a photostory but it takes time to make a good one. If you want to make a good one it could take weeks. I made a photostory and it took me one and a half weeks and i personally think its pretty good for my first time. You can create music and put it on your photostory. You can make happy music and sad music it is very good for sad stories and happy stories. If you make a photostory all of your pictures have pans and zooms. To make your story have more effect you should take most of them out and if you are going to leave some in there you should make them how you want them to be. I think that our photostory went well and if i went back to change it the only thing i would change is the music because i think i put a little too much music. If you want to please look at my photostory and tell me what you think about it. I liked our photostory a lot and i want to make another one.

Similarities: There is alot of stuff thats the same about the Canadian photostory and the American photostory. Like in both of them they talk about how they like their country and it is a beautiful country. Most of the American photostories talk about what America is like. They say what it is like to be an american and they say that being american is like a pot luck or like a tie die shirt. Each time you meet new friends you add a colour to the shirt and soon you have all colours imaginable. In the Canadian ones they say What canada is like to they say it has lots of nature it has freedom the universal health care is great and much more. They sometimes talk about how their parents met.

Differences:There is also lots of differences. Like the american ones have stuff like where their parents lived and The canadian ones only talk about two things and most of them were freedom and universal health care. The American photostories talk about multiple things like their hobbies their likes and maybe even their dislikes. If you want to watch the videos and compare them i picked out my two favourite videos. here is the American one: and here is a canadian one:

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Monkey bridges!

October 9, 2008

In Africa they have a rare species of monkeys that gets to be road kill. They don’t want that species to be extinct so they set up rope bridges from one tree to another tree. Most of the time its like monkey see monkey do and they walk across the bridges and other times if a monkey is really confused they walk around the road and end up being road kill.

In my opinion i think this is really good for the monkeys because most of them are really smart and walk across the bridges and they stay alive longer and the species wont be extinct. The rope bridges cost five hundred dollars for one so it is pretty expensive to make a lot of rope bridges. I also think that they should make this in other places too. For example in another town in Africa they have bridges like that for possums and rodents. If you want to learn more about these bridges read this. I couldn’t find a video for you but I’m sorry.