Reflection

“Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.” – Margaret J. Wheatley

Reflecting on our past accomplishments, disappointments, or past work, is an amazing thing. When I reflect on things I have done in the past, I get to learn so much more than if I had not reflected on it. When we reflect on your past work, get to know why you did that work, and what we got out of it.

Our first PLP (performance learning program) maker project was Becoming a PLP Learner. The driving question for this project was Who am I as a PLP Learner? During this project we used the app Keynote to make a presentation/slideshow to help us understand who we are, more specifically who we are as PLP learners. It was really fun making my Keynote presentation because I loved experimenting with the different features it has, for example animations.

Some Keynote Features

Here are some of the different features that I experimented with on keynote. Before I started making my official presentation, I got familiar with Keynote. I used colour fill a lot, made animations, and used colour fill, gradient fill, and a really cool feature, photo fill.

Me-Emoji

Me-emoji? Memoji? I don’t know what it is called! But… it was time to start creating the first aspect of my presentation. I made a Memoji of myself with a laptop, and on the laptop I put stickers that represent me. The criteria we had to follow while adding stickers was at least one sticker with colour fill, gradient fill, photo fill, and at least one with a drop shadow. Using what I had leaned previously, I was able to put 9 stickers, following all of the criteria, that represent me.

My Three Settings

I created a user manual for me, almost like I am a device, and you are learning all of my features. In the user manual, I had to put 3 different settings or modes that I can be in at times. 

If you would like to read my whole user manual, check out my About me page

I am Photo

I also created an I a Photo. We started by brainstorming who we are, and putting who we are in I am Statements. For example, I am a Sister. Once I had about 10-15 I am Statements, I put the statements into a WordPack. The final step of the I am Photo was to create the photo. I chose one I am Statement from my WordPack, and took a selfie of of myself that related to my statement. I had my selfie and I was ready to add doodles on the selfie to further enhance the statement. I added a picture of my siblings as well as a few doodles using the markup feature.

Conclusion

Overall, I am really happy with the end result of this project! I don’t think I would change anything about it. Every part of the process making this presentation was worth it. I really like the appearance of my slideshow. My favourite slide was my I am Photo. I think it turned out really nice and it is meaningful to me. I learned a lot about what I am good and and what I am not good at. I didn’t only learn how to use Keynote, but I also learned a lot about troubleshooting tech problems and being able to be honest with yourself if you think something needs to change. If you would like to hear a more detailed conclusion, you can check out my YouTube video at the top! This first maker project was turned out really good and I am happy to share it with you!

Have a great rest of your day (or night). Cya later!