Blog 11: Lesson 1 Reflection

1. What are you most proud of in your lesson, and why?

2. What assessment would you give yourself on your lesson? Explain why you earned that grade using evidence from the component contract.

3. If you could go back, what would you change about your lesson?  How can you use that knowledge to give a better Lesson 2?

1. My hook it took a while to come up with a 2 minute version, but after my presentation I decided to stay with this hook and just expand upon it.
2. I feel i would just earn a regular old P.
3. I would want to be more organized and more free-flowing. 

Blog 10 - Interview 2 Reflection

Questions

1. Please explain how you are spending your mentorship time (Is it at a workplace or somewhere else?  Are you shadowing?  Are you able to do tasks that are meaningfully related to the topic?  If so, what?  Are there other people who are experts in the location?  Etc...)

2.  How did you find your mentor?  How did you convince this person to help you?  

3. How would you rate your comfort level with your mentor at this point in your relationship?  How does this relate to the time you've spent so far at mentorship/with this person

4. What went well in this interview?  Why do you think so?  What do you still need to improve?  How do you know?  How will you go about it?

Answers

1. You can say I've been shadowing I have see his workplace.
2. My sister helped me find my mentor, who is also her soon to be husband.
3. Rating from a 1-10 i would have to say a 6 or a 7.
4. It flowed much better then the first interview I did with my mentor.

Blog 9 - Advisory Prep 3

1. State whether or not you currently have a mentor, and what the status of your interview is with that person (I have completed the interview, I have scheduled the interview, I have not scheduled the interview, etc).
2. At this point, your research is probably guiding your studies toward more specific areas within your topic.  Name the area or two you find most promising and explain your reasons.   
3. What kinds of sources do you think will help you in the next month to gain more research depth?  Where will you go to get them?
4. Write down a possible EQ.  Please don't worry about wording other than ensuring that it provides the option for multiple correct answers.  At this point, the senior team is most interested in understanding your thought process.

1. I do have a mentor, and I currently have not scheduled the interview.
2. Graphic design overall is a pretty broad topic on it's own, but when it comes to what you do in graphic design I would to go with designing logos and designing 3-D structures.
3. I have 3 book sources on graphic design about the history of graphic design, graphic icons, and american graphic.
4. How has graphic design impacted our daily lives.

Blog 8: Independent Component 1 Proposal

Questions

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

3.  Explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.
4.  Update your Senior Project Hours log.

1. I am planning to make graphic art with LEGO® most likely making video game consoles and handhelds, or the unique symbols of Marvel, DC and other non-associated  superheroes.
2. Building with LEGO does take a while to build. It all just depends on the dimensions of what your build and finding out what pieces you will need.
3. I originally had the mindset that graphic design was only for pictures or art on a canvas, but with LEGO i remembered how graphic design is in intuitive. I'm hoping that using LEGO will help see a new side to graphic design.

Blog 7: Second Interview Preparation

Questions

1.  Who is your mentor and where do they work?  If their workplace does not reflect their expertise, what makes them an expert?

2.  What five questions will you ask them about their background?

Answers

1. My mentor is a graphic designer who works with the city of Hesperia. 
2.  Here are my five questions.

• How long have you being intro art/graphic design?
• What college do you go to?
• How long have you been in the graphic design?
• What was your favorite and least favorite design?
• What would you be doing if you didn't work in graphic design?

Blog 6 - Advisory Prep

Questions

1. What has worked well for you concerning senior project this year?  What has made it a positive experience for you?  

2. What are you finding difficult concerning senior project?  How can you adapt to make that portion work better for you?  How might the senior team help?

Answers

1. Nothing much has really worked for me. I have learned a lot about my topic, but I see no positive experiences that have come out of this project so far.
2. The mentorship and the interviews are the thing that bothers me the most about senior project. Mostly with the working bibliography and senior project hours log. Most of them just seem unnecessary, but with the mentorship it's just challenging. The fact that you have to find a mentor, which is incredibly difficult on its own, just isn't possible for most.

Blog 5 - Interview 1 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  Is there anything I would do differently for other interviews?

2. Did I get additional resources and contacts?  What is the most useful?  Why?

3. What makes my interviewee qualified to help me? 

1. The important thing i learned from this is that graphic design isn't just about drawing whether it be hand-draw or not, but involves so many other things like photography.
2. No, not yet any way my mentor is currently looking for known associates of his in graphic design.
3. He is my mentor who has not only his bachelors degree, but also has experience. 

Blog 4 - House Advisory Prep 1

What I are hope to accomplish through my senior project topic is to know all about graphic design. I want be learn from my mentor so that I can improve my drawing skills and even learn how to draw on the computer. I have the creativity I just don't have the skill. I want to learn and create my own drawings.

Blog 3 - First Interview Preparation

I plan to interview my mentor, plain and simple. Reason being is that I want to know even more about what my mentor thinks about graphic design. So the extra questions i plan to ask are; What kind of schooling does it take for this topic?, What made you interested in graphic design?, and How many different forms of graphic design are their?

Blog 2 - Summer Mentorship

I decided to chose graphic design instead
 since I could not find a mentor for my previous topic.

Questions

1. List the contact name, phone number, and organization of the person with whom you volunteered.
2. What qualified this person as an expert in your topic choice?     

3. List three questions for further exploration now that you've completed your summer hours.    

4. What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

5. What is your senior project topic going to be? How did mentorship help you make your decision? Please explain.

Answers

This is an example of  graphic design.

1. His name is Elijah Butler, (951)-398-2645, City of Hesperia
2. He has is bachelor's degree in graphic design and has experience as well.
3. What jobs could graphic designing get you? How much time in school would it take to get a degree? How much experience does it take for graphic designing? 
4. Seeing the different types of graphic design, each with their own distinct look and feel.
5. My senior project is going to be on Graphic Design. This mentorship helped my decision based on the fact that it was my second choice and that I enjoyed seeing some of his works.

Blog 1 – Senior Final Lesson/Interview Reflection

Questions

1.  What three lessons were most helpful for you to see, and why?

2. List one thing that you learned about the senior project in interviews that will help you get off to a good start?

3. What topic(s) are you considering, and why?

4. What EQ do you think might be interesting to consider in guiding a project like this? (Please don't worry about any sort of formula...we want this question to come from your genuine interest). 

5. What are some ideas you have about finding summer mentorship?

Answers

1. Personally I feel like none of the lessons were helpful to me. Why is because the presentations felt strict. Every presentation stated with a hook activity, then boring or interesting explanation of the topic and then the activity. It all just felt the same. 
2. One thing I learned from the seniors was that senior year is horrible, just horrible. Also that their are 4 interviews and 80 sources.
3. The topic I was planning on doing was game design. Why is because I play video games a lot, so I decided why not. 
4. As a matter of fact I already have an EQ. The EQ is "What aspect of video games makes them a popular form of media?"
5. I so far have no ideas on finding a mentor over the summer.