Welcome back everyone! It’s… me. An average human being writing a perfectly normal blog post who definitely does NOT have a gun pointed at him right now. Now that we have that aside… STORM THE BARRICADES!!! TAKE BACK OUR FREEDOM!!! VIVA LA REVELUCIÓN!!!
This project is all about revolution, cause and consequence, historical significance, and being horribly overworked. In short, we learned about a man named Crane Brinton’s theory of revolutions, and how they all follow a common pattern. Next, we examined the American Revolution, then the French Revolution. For each revolution, we created a Rube Goldberg machine, and an accompanying video. We also created a couple of paragraphs, and a final video of a Rube Goldberg machine representing Crane Brinton’s theory, as well as the American and French Revolutions to top it all off.
First and foremost, my group member’s names. That would be Randy, Logan, and Indy. With that out of the way, it’s time to show some evidence of learning. Now, we did a lot to get to this point, and first of all, I would like to show our storyboard, the plan for our video. It shows what we planned… but perhaps not what went down.
Now, here’s our final video, the product that took a truckload of time, and caused inconceivable amounts of stress to finish on time. This is where all of our work culminated, and where we FINALLY came to catch up with the impossible time management expectations
Now it’s time to talk about that one thing we’ve all been dreading: the curricular competencies! First off we’ve got designing texts. This one was probably my strongest of them, due to the fact that I was the main scriptwriter and storyboarder, which I did well on. Next we’ve got establishing historical significance. I did decent on it, the reasoning behind that being I knew some history, learned some history, and was able to single out what was important, but didn’t apply myself too much. After that we’ve got analyzing cause and consequence. My performance on this particular competency was mediocre. I did a fair job overall, but there was room for improvement. Creative communicator is next up, and I would give myself a solid “meh” on this one. It’s not that I didn’t use the technology, it’s more that I wasted my time for significant chunk of the day. Finally, we’ve a need to discuss discussing, listening, and speaking. I did a pretty good job on this one, if only for the reason that I was the main voice-over actor speaking in the videos.
That concludes this perfectly normal blog post. Overall, I did minimally acceptable on this project, and naturally, as always, there is a vast amount of room for improvement, particularly in the area of effort.
*brofist*