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.
For the first bit of my tpol I was tasked with marking off whatever I felt best suited me in this chart and we had to choose one segment from agency and two others segments from any other topic.
So for the agency one I chose the segment Accepting feedback and in it it says the learner accepts feedback and make revisions, and I think since the beginning of the school year I have been putting in a lot more effort into my school work and one of the big things that had made most of my projects as good as they were was from the feedback that I got from both my classmates and the teachers.
For the second one I chose communicating with peers because of the fact that most of my revisions and feedback had come from my fellow students.
For my final one I chose focus in the self-regulation section because I have been way more focused on my school work both in class and out of class. Like when I do my homework I wake up early and I work for a full hour before I go to school, a reason I have also been focused more in class is just because the teachers put us in random seating or edges daily at the beginning of the class.
Since my last pol I have done two plp projects and I wanted to talk about some good things in my projects, the bad things, and some things that I could change to make them better.
The first project that I did was “in the name of nationalism” and for this project I was tasked to research a country and how nationalism had affected them. With this information we had to make a 3-minute video and then post it on YouTube.
The country that I was put to research was Great Britain, so for the first two weeks of the project we got lots of class time to watch videos on what nationalism is and how it had affected many different countries around the world. So with my information I got to work trying to find pictures online that I could use and make into an awesome video for my channel. Once I had all of my pictures that I liked and all of my information on Great Britain I had to type out a script that would last me at least 3 minutes. After that I put together all of my work so far into the video and I did a voice recording. In the end I had ended up with 3 minutes and 48 seconds of me talking so I had to extend my video so the recordings would fit. After that the teachers put all of us into random groups and we had to do some peer feedback on our videos. In the end I got some very positive feedback and I had to tweak my video a little then I had to post it onto my school YouTube channel to finish with this project. One of the things that I would have changed was that I could have chosen a few more pictures because I had to extend some for 15 to 20 seconds long and I’m pretty sure the viewer doesn’t want to look at a picture that long. The thing that went well was that I was able to get lots of reliable information really fast so no matter what I had to only search for 5 minutes or less to find out a question that I might have had. One thing that I really liked about this project is that it let me learn the skills to edit and be able to make my own videos.
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The second project that I did after my Mpol was for the winter exhibition. For the winter exhibition we were tasked with researching WW1 and making a comic on different roles of
people in WW1. Everyone in the class was able to choose three things they would like to make the comic out of and one of them would get picked out of your top three. I was very lucky and I was able to get the battle that I wanted, which was “the battle of Ypres”. In this battle it was the British fighting against the Germans and during the battle the first ever use of gas was put into play by the Germans. So I had to research some more information on the battle.
After I had found enough information and watched a few videos on how to draw people I started working on the comic part of the project. For the comic I could either draw them myself or trace over an actual picture of the battle so I got to work and in the first two weeks I had only done 10. Then on the last week I had to hurry it up so I worked in the mornings and at night to complete the other 10 that I had to make. We also had to include different types of panels like a splash panel and a wide panel and some text that the main character says as well as the “narrator.” After I finished with all 20 of my panels then I handed it in and got it printed out for the exhibition. On the exhibition day I had all of my panels on a sheet to actually make it look like a comic then I stapled them together and the parents came in to look at all of our work. Then the exhibition ended and the project was over with it. Something that went really well is that I had already had lots of experience with drawing as I really liked to draw when I was younger so I brought back some of the skill from that. Something that I could have changed is that I would have spent more time drawing the final 5 because I’m going to say that it’s not the best work that I had drawn.
