⚡️ Power Play

Something I loved about Power Play was how much we used Keynote, I am sure some people did not like how much we used it. I did like it though because I felt like it allowed me to become more proficient when using it. One thing I struggled with though was including more content in my Keynotes because for the last year I just slapped the question of what I would be talking about. 

Fun fact! As of publishing this on January 28th of 2023, exactly one year ago was when I presented this. Anyways, I would then read the script I made for the specific topic. 

🔥 The Outsiders (note there was never a blog post for it since the project happened before we got our blogs).

Something I loved about it was the reading role logs, since everyone in our groups had a clear task on what to do. I found all of the roles enjoyable, since we swapped roles every chapter. Something I struggled with was the voice note for Keystone #3, I listened to it again recently and found myself being quiet and shy. To improve at speaking to a microphone I will practice by talking about things I enjoy such as Harry Potter, then hopefully I will be more prepared for next time.

📦 Pandoras Box

The project I am most proud of was Pandoras Box, going into it I had no idea I would come out with my box looking this great!

I think my greatest struggle with Pandoras Box was coming up with the theme statement, my first one was based on racism. Then a few days later I just had an epiphany at around 9:30PM and I immediately wrote down my idea for a theme statement before I lost it. Then after around 20 minutes of editing I landed on my final theme statement,

What does Avatar teach us about culture?
It teaches us that due to bonds their ancestors have forged there over the generations, living things can feel a sense of affinity to particular locations.

It all worked out in the end though.

📚 My Competency Related Goals

I had 2 primary Competency related goals at the beginning of the year, One of my goals for a core competency is to improve my communication skills to the point where I can effectively convey my ideas and feelings with those around me. Another goal is to work on my leadership skills, so that I can lead a team effectively and efficiently. Finally, I want to sharpen my problem-solving skills so I can quickly analyze situations and come up with solutions that benefit everyone. These are just a few of the core competencies I am looking to work on over the next few months.

Another one was organization, before Radical Innovations I used Craft to organize things we do in PLP, and I still do. In Radical Innovations we learned to use things, I already had a good understanding of using it. Though I learned so much more about it in the days we focused on using things. So now with Things I can use it to keep track of deadlines and such for my PLP Projects and day to day life.

I think I have completed my goal of being more organized, I have also advanced closer to completing my communication based goal. Though there is still work to be done on it.

💯 My Grade Goals for my PLP Classes

In my Learning Plan I set my goal in Maker to Extending, because when I had ADST (Applied Design, Skills & Technologies) last year I loved it! It never even felt like school for me, one of our projects was making a stitched monster.

For the other 2 PLP Classes, Humanities and Science. I set my Grade Goals to Accomplished, I did that because I was not to sure how different the 2 Classes would be from “regular” Humanities and Science Classes would be. Now that I am around half way through the school year. I have decided that I want to start having the goal of being Extending in Humanities, because though it will be extra work I am willing to do the work and I am excited for learning about Pirates with Ms Madsen.

For Science, since I have not had it yet I will speak about it at my TPoL. We’ll see how I do at Small but Mighty which will be our first science project.