Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We will discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance for listening and for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.
I want to start by talking about a project where I learnt a lot about myself, and how I work. In the Rise of The Frankenstuffies project, I realized how much I struggle to make storyboards. I don’t think the usual format of a storyboard works very well for me. I find that they really don’t help me make a video/movie/film out of a text, and they just waste time when I have to draw every scene (Even just a very rough stick person and background). Also, for me, time stamping scenes is hard and unhelpful, because I can’t guess how long something will take very well, and if I guess too low, it throws everything off.
However, during that project, I found a way for me to make storyboards that are helpful to me. If I just write a brief description of each shot on separate keynote slides, I can easily look for what I need to do there. When I finish each shot, I put the clip over top of the keynote slide, effectively crossing it off the list. Now that I have that figured out, I will be able to make videos much easier in the future.
There are multiple times that I’ve felt frustrated with PLP work this year, but DI was definitely the most frustrating. I think one of the main reasons it was frustrating for me was the unfortunate timing. When we started working on our solutions, maker was just about to end, and it was very hard to find time outside of school hours that all of our group members could make it to. Because of our limited schedule, we really didn’t make much progress until the last minute. It was also frustrating for me that multiple of my group members didn’t really care about DI. I think it would be better for next year if there are some groups that only have people that really want to do DI and are interested in making the best solutions, and to have other groups for everyone else.
Now, I want to talk about how I made my work unique to me so far this year. A good example for this is in my “What Inspires Me?” video from the Story Finding in the Rockies project. I made this video unique to me not just with what I’m saying, but how I’m saying it. I decided to make it into a parody of one of my favourite songs, “Wake Me Up” by Avicii. I really like music, so I though this would be a great way to incorporate my interests with my work.
What Inspires Quin | Wake Me Up Parody
Another example of where I made my work unique this year is in the Sparks Fly Project in science. We were learning about circuits, and, since I already knew a lot about circuits, I wanted to challenge myself. When we had some time in class to practice making circuits, I made a working Menorah with the right candles lighting up for each day of Hanukah out of LED lights and wires.
For the rest of this year, I want to focus on getting my assignments done on time. I think one of the main reasons that I’ve been late on some assignments this year is that if I don’t finish it in class, I get distracted when trying to work at home. I want to work on moving away from or removing distractions so that I can get more work done on time.
I also want to challenge myself more in projects that I relate to. I think I relate more to science and Maker than I do to Humanities, so that will be challenging now that science and maker are done.
Thank you for reading my mPOL.