Blog 24: Last Presentation Reflection

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?


(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation?  Use the component contract to defend that assessment.

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project? Use the component contract to defend that assessment.

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project?

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.


(1) My activities I found captivated everyone in the room.


(2) Since I did not make time I deserve an NC.
     AP for senior project.

(3) I did my assignments, thats what worked.


(4) I would add more to my presentation so that I made time.


(5) It has given me 2 things I could potentially do in the future line of work.

Blog 23: Exit Interview Prep

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

(1) My EQ is "How can a graphic design be most effective?" Ans 1. A design must be eye-catching. Ans 2. The design must be unique and completely original. Ans 3. The design has to communicate to the audience to show its message. I would say that my answer 3 is my best answer. A design communicating means brand recognition.

(2) With my answer 3 it sort of just came to mind. All I had was make it into a question.

(3) I faced no significant problems.

(4) The importance of understanding company logo implementation and 65 expert logo design tips

Blog 22: Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) Include this statement: “I, student name, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents ___ hours of work.”
(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
(c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log (which should be under your Senior Project Hours link)
(d) Explain what you completed.    
(e) Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.   
(f)How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 

(1) “I, student name, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”

(2) "The 5 Different Logo Design Styles: Which Type Fits Your Brand? - Company Folders." Company Folders. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 May 2016.

(3) I made a few logos based off of what I have learned from my research

(4) Logos take an incredible amount of time to make a logo. You have to come up with many different ideas. Draw for many hours at a time perfecting what you had envisioned.

(5) This help me to see how important logos can be. Simple and yet still effective.

Blog 21: Interview 4 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  
2.  How will what I learned affect my final lesson?

Blog 20: Fourth Interview Questions

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?
2.  Post 20 open-ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. Your focus should be finding answers to your EQ.

• 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?
• What is your thought process when creating a design?
• What challenges did you face during that thought process?
• What excited you the most when learning about the topic, graphic design?
• If you were working at WB where do you think he would be at this point of your life?
1. Meaning what would be your dream job?
• What do you think is your greatest achievement?
1. what was your favorite design if you had made any to begin with?
• How long did it take you to get through college?
1. What degree did you achieve to get?
• What were some of the things that you learned?
• What's your opinion on graphic design being a lucrative career?
1. Do you think it can be a lucrative career?
• Was graphic design your first choice for a career?
• What made you interested enough to get a degree in graphic design?

Blog 19: Third Answer

• EQ 
• Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*
• 3 details to support the answer
• The research source(s) to support your details and answer
• Concluding Sentence

Blog 18: Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?
2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
5.  What printed source best supports your answer?
6.  What other source supports your answer?
7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

Blog 17: Interview 3 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  
*That graphic design is for the consumer and knowing what the consumer wants.
2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?
*Just being involved with the interviewee and listening to their stories.  The interview also flowed better.  

Blog 16: Independent Component 2 Approval

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 this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

Blog 15: Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) Write: “I, Alek Redmon, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
  (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.
• (d) Explain what you completed.    
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
  
• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 

• “I, Alek Redmon, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
  
• http://www.seankenney.com/ helped inspire what the cultures show look like
• I have created multiple Lego Designs based off real world items

Blog 14: Interview 3 Preparation

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?
2.  Verify that you have called your interviewee to schedule an interview.  What is the date and time of the interview? 
3.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you find research resources that would help to answer the EQ.
4.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you think about other useful activities you might do to help you answer the EQ (IC2, possible experts to talk to, etc).
5.  Phrase two open-ended questions that help you to understand your interviewee's perspective on an aspect of your EQ. 

Blog 13: 10 Hour Mentorship Check-In

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?
2.   Who is your contact?  What makes this person an expert?
3.   How many  hours have you done during the school year? (Summer Mentorship Hours and Mentorship Hours should be reflected separately in your Senior Project Hours log located on the right hand side of your blog).
4.   Succinctly summarize what you did, how well you and your mentor worked together, and how you plan to complete the remaining hours.

*You need 50 hours plus the original 10 in the summer by May.   The original 10 from the summer do not count toward the 50.  By the end of the year, you will have 60 hours counting that original 10.

Lesson 2 Reflection

Content:

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE       P          AP       CR       NC

     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

1. My power-point and activity I felt the most proud of.
2.  AP, I did mess up in the middle of my lesson just an awkward silence.
3. My activity
4. I would fix some areas in my power-point so that I can prevent the awkward silence.
5. Right now I have nothing for my second answer.

Blog 12: Holiday Project Update

Questions

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you do over the break with your senior project?


2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why?  What was the source of what you learned?

3.  Your third interview will be a 10 question interview related to possible answers for your EQ. Who do you plan to talk to and why?

Answers

1. What I did over the holiday break was make some designs out of Lego for my independent component 
2. Graphic design is not something you can do just over night and to goes into art in general as well.
3. I do not know who I am going to talk to just yet, but I will eventually.

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.