It’s that time of the year again when we have student lead conferences, these are used for us to exhibit our work to our teachers and parents. So welcome this is my learning portfolio of the work I’m proud of.
The first part is the work that I’m most proud of. This would have to be my Destination Imagination project. I am proud of this work because I put a lot of effort and work on it and I think it shows in the final product. Also though my group didn’t always agree and we had a few speed bumps along the way we were able to pull it off. And though we do have things we need to improve upon for Provincials overall the storyline and ideas behind were good and I think showed.
Another year of Destination Imagination
Next up is my growth as a learner. This has improved I think and has shown through, my example is between our videos for Seattle and Florida. The first video is the one that we did in groups and mine was based on Dale Chihuly the world renowned glass blower. This was a good video but it still had cracks in between it.
The Crazy ones
From then in Seattle and going to Orlando we have done a few videos in between and one of them was the one we did in Florida. This was about what draws us to imaginary worlds and I showcased Cinderellas Castle in my video. I think this has improved in quality and getting the right information into it. And not only was the video better but between these two trips I feel that I grew as a person in the sense that I have now learnt to be more independent and having to plan every step of the way other whys it all crumbles around you.
The happiest place on earth
And then last but not least my growth mindset. This would have to be the essay we did on what draws us to Imaginary worlds? Because I have always thought that writing wasn’t interesting and that it wasn’t worth it because I am a terrible writer but as I was learning about the essay structure and arguments you can make during writing I saw that it was actually quite interesting. And that though I may not be an amazing writer I can still always improve upon it.
Alice’s essay
That last point about becoming a better writer ties into my three goals for the rest of the year. That is one of them to become a stronger writer and I am going to do that by putting a little extra time into it look it over and get other people’s feedback. My next goal is to continue to learn and keep a group together like in DI. And finally my last goal is to put more effort into my blog and keep it up to date rather then just go in waves of posts. I will achieve that by looking for ways to add posts and get other peoples help on what to improve on and maybe even change the style.
so that was my SLC’s thank you for reading or listening to this presentation and I will be seeing you soon!
SLC’s are Student Led Confrences where you discuss your work and the things that you have accomplished. It is presented in front of your teachers and parents (privately) and you are in charge. Now here is the begging of it all!
The work I am most proud of is my blog which you are on right now. I feel that my header is laced out well and describes me in a way, different and original. And the actual picture is from my cousin who lives in gibsons so I have a connection with it. All of the posts I think have been improving each time and are actually edited in a way that people can understand without being overwhelmed by it. But I am going to continually improve my blog and not leave it behind. (Here is my first blog post)
Fixing the Death Star
Next is the work that demonstrates my growth as a learner and that would be my Star Wars Blue Sky project. For that project I decided to recreate a part of The Death Star so it had no flaws. I did that by physically making it out of bowls and pipe and then just explained what was happening along the way when I was presenting it to everyone. This represents my growth as a learner because I learnt till the very end of the project, even on the day we were presenting I was still learning. And I learnt from the very begining even if I changed my mind a couple of times I got the basic gist of it at the beginningand started research immediately. A story that would accompany this would be that I thought I had it all figured out and the whole design and everything but then my dad pointed out where I went wrong so the last couple days before I had to present it I changed my design so that was a bit stressful. But I learned from that experience to research even more and look over things with others. Another thing I learned from this project was simply the heating in buildings and cars. Overall I think that best represents my Growth as a Learner.
And finally what have I shown that demonstrates my growth mindset? That would be Destination Imagination. In my blog post it explains why
Starting up Destination Imagination
Destination Imagination was actually really fun, and the Instant Challenges always left me with a smile on my face. Though if I were to do it again I probably wouldn’t leave it to the last second and would actually finish it. But it was a huge challenge to make the instrument so light and you can see that because we were running around 10 minutes until we had to present it.
Us doing an Instant Challenge
Over the past school year it has always been interesting, but now I am done my SLC’s!
Thank you for watching and now if anyone has any questions feel free to say them.
