Hello for the second last time this year.
This is now my second TPOL or Transitional Presentation of Learning.
I’m going to start off by saying that this year has not been my best. And I have learned from that. School is only going to get more challenging from now. I’ve been struggling pretty much the whole year and it hasn’t been until the third and last term that I have stepped up.
Highlights:
Humanities:
Personally I think my best projects for Humanities this year were my last two. WW1 and the Heritage minutes.
http://www.blog44.ca/lucianos/2019/06/19/ww1-billy-bishop/
http://www.blog44.ca/lucianos/2019/05/09/les-voyageurs-heritage-minutes/
Over the year in Maker and Humanities we’ve been heavily focusing on video so I feel my video making skills, from editing to filming have greatly improved. At the start of the year I was very uninterested in video making. As well as I like being the actor and not the filter or editor. I feel it’s what I’m best at, presenting/acting. So I tried to use that to my advantage for the year like when in groups choosing to be the actor as my main responsibility.
Maker:
Although it was a very rough start with maker, I think I’m finishing pretty strong. It took me awhile to find interest in Maker and I just kept snowballing. So I eventually had to sit down and grind out a few videos and blog posts to catch up. After that I’ve kept on top of things. I think I did pretty well in D.I. I could’ve improved if I would’ve focused a bit more at the start of the Unit but we ended up performing well.
https://www.blog44.ca/lucianos/2019/04/15/4-dis-4-podiums/
Areas for Improvement:
PGP:
PGP has been interesting. I going to be honest, I was extremely skeptical about it even a few months in. The 7 habits and goal setting especially I found not very helpful and boring. And productivity was not to far. But I started using Things more and more to get task done it’s helped, mostly because it gives a satisfaction that I finished a task every time that I check off on that little blue checkmark. I’ve doing goal setting since grade 7 and it really pisses me off for lack of a better way of saying it. No matter how or who assigns it to me. If I have a goal I truly want to accomplish I have no need of writing it down. So I could work on being more open-minded about it but we’ll see.
Scimatics:
I used really like math and science but this year, not gonna lie it’s been pretty boring and that has led to me not really wanting to do it. I put it into areas of improvement.
http://www.blog44.ca/lucianos/2019/04/01/a-lego-house-valuation-with-like-terms/
This year I will say has been fun. We all knew each other better, so socially it’s been great but academically I’ll just leave it a “meh”. So that’s my TPOL.
Well that’s it. See you soon.