When we started this project I thought I had a long time to do it, but now it is Friday and I feel like I have nothing done. We present them on Monday, that is three to write a paper, and make up my presentation. I'm still not even sure what a pecha kucha style presentation is. I've asked some of my friends for help and if they know what it is and nobody knows. So this week I learned that very few people know what a pecha kucha presentation is and it is hard not to put everything you need to say on the slides you are showing. I also learned that I do not like to ask for help. I feel like I learned this and so I should know what I am doing without help. I am really good at putting things off till the last minute (literally) and I get distracted easily. Professional presentations should not include clip art, and you should have enough time on each slide to talk about everything you need to. Time management is key and senioritis is really kickin’ in right about now. I never really thought I would be the type of person to get senioritis but I definitely have it, and it is killing me I cannot focus on anything, not in any of my classes and my classes are not even close to hard this year. I have 3 classes: Interior Design (easy) English (a little harder) and Educational careers (easiest class I have) but I just cannot bring myself to do the in class work for any of these. I am ready to be done with high school.
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This week I learned it is hard for me to stay focused on a book. I also learned it is hard for me to read more than one book at a time. When I read more than one book I start to confuse them. I get the characters mixed up, and I cannot remember what is happening in each book. Also I get distracted really easily and find things I would rather be doing instead of reading. I found my book on Youtube so I could have it read to me and I find that easier because I can just relax and listen to what is happening, the only downfall is it is harder to comprehend, but becomes easier the more I listen. I also like audiobooks because I can listen to them in my car. So I can get a lot of my reading done by going on a drive and just listening. I learned I am not very good at digging deeper into the book. When I read a book I read for the enjoyment of the book and do not usually look deeper into it. So trying to transition into doing this has been a struggle. English has never really been my strongest point because of this and the fact that I am not the best writer. I like writing for enjoyment but when I have to type an essay on a certain thing it becomes difficult for me because I am not good at comprehending these types of things. This week I learned to not procrastinate things till the last minute because it will effect my grade. I learned that I am growing up and soon I will be in college and the professors will not remind me about due dates and they will not accept my late work and if I fail, I fail and I will not be able to fix it. I learned that college will be harder than high school and that scares me because procrastinating will not even be an option then. I also learned that a good way to take note while reading is to take a picture of the page and then put it in a power point and write a short paragraph explaining the point of that page. Picture notes really helped me gather my thoughts and stay "in the zone" while reading. I become distracted so easily that this was a good way for me to not get distracted because I do not really have to stop and take notes i just have to grab my phone and take a picture and look back later. I learned this week that when writing I like to be able to write about whatever I want to, instead of having something I have to write about, I find it easier to write more when I have a topic I enjoy talking about or have a lot to say about. I enjoy writing in a letter format, and knowing that I can get everything i have to say out and know that no one will see it. This week I wrote my This I Believe paper. I always learn stuff about myself when I write. I learn stuff because things I would never say out loud just come out on paper. It is easier to write things down because you do not have to worry about anyone hearing it and judging you for the things you say. The This I Believe paper was a great project, I hated doing it, I hated the idea that I had to record my voice and play it for everyone, I hated the idea that everyone got to hear my thoughts, when I write i like to write because no one will hear or see it, but now that it is over and i have watched other people’s, and learned what other people believe in, I see that the things people believe can really help other people, because the things people say are something’s that other people need to hear. As we get older we do not realize that sometimes just hearing the right thing at the right time can change our perspective on everything. My friend said something to me that last night that i needed to hearl. She said “The thing is is that people do not have the same morals and thoughts as you. I used to get mad about people’s actions too and think how tf can they do that but it’s just that people weren't raised like you and they don't believe in the same things as to which is right and which is wrong. And you can't change that and maybe that's why you like being friends with people who don't think like you because it gives you a new perspective but you can't change who they are.” This was something that changed my feelings toward someone on something i thought I would be mad at them for, but after hearing this I realized i could not stay mad because you can’t change a person and how they were raised. This week while writing our I believe I learned that there is a lot of stuff I could have wrote about, I wrote a couple different papers, but the one I choose as my paper to make a digital story out of was I believe in love. Love is something you experience a lot, you love a lot of things but loving a special person is the best until they do not feel the same. That is something I found out writing this paper and I would not have realized it unless I worte it down. I learned that writing is easy, once you find a topic you relate to a lot you can write for a long time, and writing is a good way to express everything that you have been keeping to yourself and a good way to let it all out if you did not really want to share with anyone, but need some way to get it out of you. I never really liked writing until this year when I figured this out, that it is easy to let everything that is inside out. There is a lot of times when I need someone to tell something to but do not really want to so now when I feel that way I will probably write it down. This week I learned that there is power in story, if you need to learn something or memorize something it will be easier to remember if you learn it through a story. You will not remember something as well if you copy it down from a power point or hear it in a lecture. It is easier to learn if you can relate to it through story. I also learned that to have a good digital story there is seven things you have to have. 1. A Point of View 2. A Dramatic Question 3. Emotion 4. Voice 5. A Soundtrack 6. Economy and 7. Pace. I think a good soundtrack is especially important because it can help with a couple of the other elements, like pace, emotion, and voice. You are not going to put in a happy soundtrack if you are talking about something deep or something that is kind of sad. Your voice is important too because if you are to monotone then people are not going to be as interested, because it is not as interesting as if you were to act like it was a conversation that they could possibly relate to. Pace can also help with the interest in your piece, if you are not reading fast enough then they will probably be bored, and if you are too fast your audience might miss important factors. Telling a story to people about something that you are passionate about is a good way to have people realte to you and sometimes people have to hear things to realize what they are doing or that, this is something they can think about themselve and how something you believe in could also be something they believe in, in a different way. I learned this week that writing comes from within. I learned alot about myself just through the short creative wrting piece we did on Thursday. Things I did not know before or never really thought much about came out when I started writing about the topic. Some of the things I wrote about I did know but did not want to think about or tried not to think about because it was something that made me sad, or something I was disappointed in myself for, but once I started writing about it, it flowed out of me. I also learned that when I write I like to repeat things in different wording, things that might be extra important to me. I learned this week that you cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects you somehow. Which is really important, if you do not hate anything about any other person than you probably just have not recognized it yet, because there always gonna be something that annoys you or that you do not like about another person, because you are human and everyone has this flaw. Another thing I learned through the ten rules for being human is that life is what you make it. which is something everyone should live by, and everyone should remember. You cannot have a good day unless you make it good, if you tell yourself that you are going to have a bad day evryday then you will never have a good day. If you tell youreslf you hate school and you do not want to go then you will, never want to be there and you will never be able to have a good day when you have to go to school. The ten rules for being human are important and thing everyone needs to remember, if you have not read it you should, because all the facts are one hundred percent true and especially important. |
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