In this exhibition blog post I am going to be talking about… the spring exhibition :D. For the spring exhibition we had to show off our podcasts and business cards. This was supposed to combine our Marketing You and our podcast projects together.
This exhibition was amazing because it combines my favourite projects together and the design of our room makes very few people come to ask questions. It’s a win-win. Parents talk to people they care about, and students get to talk about something they are passionate about. Over the project I have created two business cards and one podcast.
I had lots of fun during this project because of the product I was showing, it was also fun to check on projects from other grades. I would like to do another exhibition like this soon.
The main question of this post is “ how does balance in my life create opportunities.” Immediately I know I have a problem. From the videos we watched as a class, some guy named Shawn Achor was talking about how happiness affects work.
The Video:
After watching I knew that I was the perfect storm of what not to be. I am constantly tired for some reason, I could be happier and I am not as motivated as I was one or two years ago. I am trying to get better at working efficiently. I was excited to get better habits.
Next we read a book about Atomic habits. It’s meant to help us make good habits and break bad habits. Didn’t work. But I did see some habits that I could change to work for me. My goal for completing the book was to read 21 pages each week. Eventhough I had that goal, I didn’t manage to fully complete the book. From what I did read I found that it gave decent advice, but I don’t think it would work for me.
There were 4 chapters to this book. They are:
• Make it Obvious
Have a visual cue to help you complete work. For example: take your dog for a walk every day that it’s sunny. Oof you do this it would streamline reminders. Instead of having to comb through an app every day just remind yourself through the situation that your in.
• Make it Attractive
Make the task seem quick and exciting to complete. Have a reason to complete it. If you have a reason to complete the task it feels more natural and not like someone if forcing you to complete it. In the first year of PLP there was a post we had to do where we could chose anything to write about. It felt fun. I could go on a rant about anything I wanted to. That is because it seems natural. Not something that was guided by the teachers.
• Make it Easy
Make the task easier by simplifying, taking breaks, or by find something that is interesting about it. Have it seem like a hobby and not school work.
• Make it Satisfying
Feel good after completing the task. Schedule something fun after you complete it. listen to music during it. Work with family. Just do something that ether makes you happy that you completed it or do something that you like while doing it.
Overall I feel like I did learn from this project, but I don’t think that it’s helping solve my bad habits. I am happy that I did this and I am planning on finding some other way to help me create new habits.
In this project we were learning about Disney and how his theme parks shape and influence the experiences of visitors. Over the course of the projects we went to Disney world and created trend videos about ride reviews, asking people about Disney parks and how it affects them. Almost all of my videos were about reviews. Because that’s one of the only trends I can work efficiently on.
We were also tasked with creating a group video. For that video we decided to interview multiple people and ask how Disney has become so nostalgic for them, what movie holds a special place in their hearts and if Mickey Mouse’s core values have remained constant is Disney films. I feel like the video is doing well.
The group video:
I liked going to Disney World. Even though it’s overpopulated and cramped, it’s interesting to go to. I feel like the rest of the project could have been planned differently though. The videos don’t seem to work with the rest of it because some ]thing about Tik tok trends and a school project about Disney theme parks doesn’t seem to fit right. It could ether be changed by giving different option or by having the blog post and the main project being combined in some way. Anyway, I liked this project; I would like to do more stuff like this in the future.
In this project we worked on Romeo and Juliet. We first read the original play and connected it to the movie Gnomeo and Juliet. It was cool because we got to watch a movie. I competed a page about how the two versions of the play were similar and how they deviated from one another. Then, in a team had to create our own version of one of the scenes. We chose the balcony scene because it could be changed the most out of all of the scenes in the play. We decided to make it a mockumentary because we could film it more like it was happening in real life. The filming of the video was interesting because we had to create a script that was both realistic and interesting to a modern audience at the same time. At the end i feel like we created a good video that was, in a way, so bad that it ended up being good.
At the end of it i feel like I learned a lot from it. I learned more about team work, i got better at editing on my iPad, and i found out more about the Romeo and Juliet play.
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In the Ology of apology project, we created a keynote about one of Canada’s past wrongs.
The wrong that I was chosen for was the Chinese head tax. The keynote that I made was good, not great. Later we had to create a presentation at the winter exhibition. My group decided to create a combination of all our topics. We felt like we did a great job and we explained the exhibit very well even though we didn’t have a script to read off.
At the end of it, we were happy about the work that we did, and we would like to do it again next year
During the loon lake trip, my class when to loon lake and did some team building exercises. Those exercises included rock climbing, high ropes and low ropes.
Rock climbing: this was very fun because it was cool to see how far you could get up. I thought I could get pretty far up, but I couldn’t. It was like my muscles just wouldn’t muscle.
High ropes: I liked this one the most. We had to build a tower of crates. My team got up to 11 but when we got there, I slipped and knocked the tower down. An out her thing that happened was that I got stuck in the harness after we were done.
Low ropes: this one was a team exercise. We had to get from one obstacle to the other. I felt like I did well at this because I helped my team members and got through the course fast enough.
Overall I felt like this learning experience was great and I learned a lot from it. I really hope we can do something like this again.
