This week has been fairly crazy. A lot of schedule stuff has happened and other things have caused this week to be a bit rough on timing. However I am stepping up my game. I did start on two new bolts this week for English credit. The first one being about annotating songs and finding protest in certain songs or just purely finding the meaning of each song. The other one is about writing and requires about an hour of writing per day. I especially like this bolts because it gives me the motivation to actually write down some of the stories that are trapped in my head. I have come to the decision that my Inquiry block is ready to begin a presentation format. I'm not 100% sure of how I'll present it but I'm thinking of using a "draw it out" video. These generally use a white board and expo markers and a narrator that voices it over.
With this week coming to a brief close I've had many realizations. One of them being that I procrastinate a bit too much. The bolt project that required an excessive amount of experimentation fell short of its goal. I am happy that I recognized this so I can further better my working experience within mosaic. I believe that I can get more done than I admit to so It's time for a change. However on the flip side in my successes I have made significant progress on research in the second Inquiry block. I've gained enough data that I am confident I can begin to form a presentation that will be able to well demonstrate my work. The one thing that I have been doing and will change is that I've been focusing a little bit too much in areas that don't really assist me with the project. With this I will be making changes to some of the work focuses. It's time for a true "game plan" that I can truly benefit from. After all it is my senior year and I only have a few things left to let me slow down and begin a good plan for what I'm going to do outside of the mosaic space. Overall I'd say that in the sense of personal growth I've made a gain of identifying what I can stop.
This is the very first Reflection that I am doing and with this I will go ahead and update with what has happened thus far. The first individual project I worked on was the first Inquiry Block. I asked the question, "Why do we have so much potential yet we tell ourselves we are worthless?" I had put in only a slight amount work to this which I am disappointed in myself in however I was able to really make people think at least on the sense of the question itself. This brings us to now, where I have begun work on inquiry block 2. In this I had gone through a long process of switching questions and finally landed on the question , "How might I use the design process to make a flying vehicle so I can plan the jet bike?". The Jet Bike is an engineering project that I started on last year and is being continued. Thus far I have made connections and gathered various resources so I can begin a solid research and really fill in those questions with hard evidence.
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