This week I was super productive. I was able to accomplish a lot. Furthermore, for the most part, my group and I worked very well together. We finished our books this past weekend and then we spent this week making the PowerPoints with the picture notes. We were able to finish the powerpoint pretty quickly because as we read, we took a lot of picture notes. But, I do wish that we had known the questions we were looking for as we read, not just the big question, because as a group we took many pictures and it was hard to go through and filter what we needed. The specific five questions that were given to us during the powerpoint creation process would have helped to further guide our reading beyond just the broad big question. Once we finish the powerpoint, it was hard to start the Website for multiple reasons. First of all, it was a big project and we were not sure how to tackle it, since it is such a large, complex piece. Secondly, the day we were trying to start the project Mr. Schoenborn and our digital media person for our group was not there. So, we could not create the website to start and we could not get answers to the questions we had. But, we were able to overcome this hurdle by creating a Google Doc and putting all our ideas and organizing our thoughts there. By doing this, Eric (the writer) and I were able to create an outline to the writing. This outline was super helpful. We looked at the structure of snowfall and we considered it in the context of our book, from there we broke down what each section would focus on. This gave us clear objectives for our writing, and then everything started to come in place around that. It became clear where interviews, animations, maps, and pictures would fit based on the decided content of the writing. Furthermore, I read this article about Snowfall, which analyze the multimodal aspect of Snowfall and has made me greatly appreciate the benefits of this project.
This week was the start of the new trimester. At the beginning of the week, we started our next big project. We will be creating a online website based off of the novels we choose to read as a group. In my group, we chose Sela to be the graphic designer because she has a strong background in digital media. I am the video journalist, Eric is the writer, and Lindsey and Emmy are the wild cards. I am very happy with my group, and so far, it seems as though we work very well together. We are all very productive and are able to fulfil our roles within the group. Currently, we are reading our chosen novel. We had a hard time choosing what book we wanted to read. Originally, we choose The Kite Runner, but there were no copies of that book left in class, so we had to reconsider our decision. I have already read Things Fall Apart and The Alchemist, so we chose to read Siddhartha. I am glad we chose this book because it is very captivating thus far. I am about halfway though and it has been a very quick read. Here is a summary for the novel: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52036.Siddhartha I wonder if the book is completely historically accurate or if it is historical fiction. It has been interesting to read the novel and compare it to what I learned about the foundations of Buddhism in World History class. These past couple of days have been very busy. I finished my fourth marking period Creative Writing and my fourth marking period book. I enjoyed working on the creative writing, as I usually do. I started working on the Pecha Kucha presentation. I am actually having a good time editing and finding pictures for my Pecha Kucha. I think I did really well at organizing my slides, and I think that the Pecha Kucha we watched about presentations really helped. I did not know you can add a background color to words on slides and make it slightly transparent. This is useful because sometimes when I put words over a picture there is no color for the words that make then visible. I also came across the official Pecha Kucha website. It was really interesting to watch the other Pecha Kucha presentations given by professionals. Seeing how they organized their slides has inspired me in my own Pecha Kucha.
In the content of my presentation, I had a few discoveries that were very exciting. As I finished my second book and began to take a step back and look at the broader stories of both novels, I found many compelling parallels between the two books. I am eager to finish my presentation and to share the comparisons I made. Additionally, I found two very good outside sources that connect really well to Medea. Now I am looking for my third outside source and I want something that connects to both books or maybe just The Awakening. |
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