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.