Overall, I have progressed immensely as a learner through the year in Flight class. Confidence has always been a struggle for me at school, as you’ve probably heard many times. But I never really was a confident learner, and I think this year I’ve blossomed and have become a student who is able to be a leader and a follower. Another skill I have acquired is my ability to think with an innovative and critical mind to get a deep answer or thought. This has helped me greatly during the year with a lot of work that we have done.
During this year, I have also improved on my movie making skills. In the beginning, I wasn’t really sure how to use iMovie correctly, or what factors created a gripping story within a movie. So when I made my Frankenstuffie movie, even though I got a great mark, I still think there was room for improvement.
But a couple of weeks ago, we created our Blue Sky Projects, and I made an iMovie for the exhibition. I believe that it told a story and it hooked people in because they wanted to know what different people had to say. I incorporated many forms of media, like music, video, photos, and text, and these factors really complimented the interviews, and connected to the mood of the video.
This year, there have been so many amazing projects that we have done, from our first ever explain everything, to Our Cray Cray Yay Yay Seattle Videos, that it was just impossible for me to pick one project that I was most proud of. So I chose my Blue Sky Project, and The Metaphor Machine Project.
My Blue Sky project was based around the idea of recycling in and around my community. I learned how to create a really thoughtful question and use an open mind to get a whole new view on the topic. There are many reasons why I am proud of this project, but I think the main one is because it shows how much I have developed my skills as a learner and created something that I am really happy with, without any drastic help from anyone.
Many different aspects of my learning have gotten better during the year. The one I think that I have improved on the most though, was my ability to be a leader in a group or in the class. I will be explaining this in more detail when I talk about my goal setting and achievements, but for now I want to talk about how this has helped me to grow as a learner.
In groups of about six or seven, we created Metaphor Machines, to display the events of an assigned revolution. My group was assigned the English Revolution, and personally, I believe we did an excellent job with ours. There were three key components to our full completed machine; a blueprint, an iMovie, and the actual machine itself. I was very proud of my group work for this project. I feel as though I communicated well with all of my group members, and I felt like a natural leader as the architect.
And even though, as you watch our iMovie, it might not be the best I have done this year, we really put a lot of energy, and effort into this project, and I think it was one of my best yet!
