Project 2 Research With Videos

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-XixnYRzYH6-BWzgdH3UmBBccqMVpCKJ91uXDLv6XMM/edit?usp=sharing

Stereolithography Project Process

When I heard about an opportunity to use a 3-D printer I really wanted to do a project on it. I had a one week time restriction to get a model in. I decided to make a custom lego figure of "Uncle Scrooge". I was stressed during this week, but I managed to get the model in. The first day I had looked for the dimensions of a lego figure, but to no avail. I then came across LEO CAD. This was a CAD program with all of lego's bricks and parts in scale dimensions. The rest of the week I worked on the model. As I mentioned, I got it in on time, but at some point the printer got jammed before my project could print. I was disappointed, but I just kept working on my previous project. The next week I worked on the proposal, and when everyone was done we got into groups and pitched our ideas. I liked this because it was not just the teacher giving tips, it was also other students. After that process I started working on researching. I managed to find most of the research I was looking for. The thing I couldn't find was how 3-D printers have evolved. I even found a video where CNN interviews the inventor.  The last week of my project I planned the order I will present what I did. I also practiced my "Blender" tutorial. 

PDD Interchangable Art Final Reflection

I think the thing I learned the most about  in this project is how to create a product that has never been made before. This includes how many challenges there are while creating the product. There were many times during this project where I felt overwhelmed by the amount of work to do, but I knew I had to keep working in order to relieve the stress. It was also difficult when searching for help because it was very difficult to explain the project to others. Thankfully my sister understood the idea we had, so we where able to ask her. In my opinion the biggest challenge we had was cutting the wood. It was difficult because I first had to draw out plans, which I didn't know, and then organizing the time to actually cut it. If I could change anything about this project I wouldn't change anything. I find if I changed anything I wouldn't get the same learning as I did doing the project the way I did now. I think I did well throughout the project. While pre-planning everything was well planned and mostly organized, and I feel I planned out before each step quite well. While working on this project I think that I worked hard. At the beginning I honestly didn't work as hard as I could have, but as soon as I realized I had to work harder I did, and in the end we were able to finish everything. My weekly reflections were, for the most part, accurate and I was always honest in my posts. While explaining our project during the peer-review we were able to accurately explain what we were doing, our progress so far and were able to get good feedback about what to work on/change after after the peer-review.  During the presentation I feel we were able to explain our project, and show some of our progress. The biggest part of the presentation was the play we made. I think we were able to achieve our objective of creating the new product, and were able to explain it and show how it works. I think this was a success because people did not have questions about the concept, or how it worked after the presentation, but instead they asked about other uses for it. I also think we talked clearly throughout the presentation. I would say we achieved our goals quite well, as we were able to do everything we hoped to do, as I explained earlier. The one thing I think we could have done better is making the slides easier to slide into the slots. I believe this was difficult for us as we only finished the frame a few days before the presentation, so we didn't have much time to fix that. I hope to be able to finish my next project with more time before the presentation to avoid another situation like what happened.

PDD Interchangable Art Presentation

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6GsgXJ-y7Z6bFNqcnNNX1k2SVE/edit?usp=docslist_api

Project 1 Reflections Week 5-7

This is going to be short, as it was a while back, but I was busy...

I was unable to work on the project during week 5 as I was working on my next project (more info coming soon). The next week I worked on the characters and the painting. We also had to start preparing for our presentation the following Friday. We also had our peer-review this week, so we prepared a questionnaire. We got helpful feedback, but our last question "What would you like to see using this concept" would have been too much of a handful for the time we had so we couldn't use any of those responses. Week 7 was stressful as there was a lot to get done in a short amount of time. Hyun and I worked on the project every day, cutting out trees, painting, gluing and recording. I also built the frame which we got help cutting out during Week 6. On Friday we presented, and I think it went pretty well. I will have a video of that on the blog in the next day or two.

PDD Project 2 Proposal

My 2nd Project Proposal

PDD Project 1 Peer Review

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1R4UomyrQGNMx-YCP676mvGlWAR4LuvkdlM9kb8O-iNw/viewform?usp=send_form

CBC: Conceptual Bell Curve

Interchangable Artwork- Week 4

This week I believe I was quite productive. I was unable to work on this project Monday because it was Easter and I had some family events. On Tuesday I worked on the previous weeks reflection because I prefer to count what I did over the weekend as part of the week. I also commented on Mr. Solarz's blog as an assignment. On my blog it says Thursday, however that was when I remembered I had to link my comments. I did not work on the project on Wednesday, however on Thursday Hyun I I were able to cut out all 23 slides we need out of cardboard. The slides are not very sturdy, so I will probably reinforce them with Popsicle sticks. I also drew out "Ardentis", one of our characters. On Friday we watched a video as a class and had a class discussion afterwords. The video was about how school has evolved, and what hasn't changed, as well as being creative vs. and conformity. Over the weekend I was able to make good headway on the first painting. To see pictures go to the page dedicated to this project.

Next week I need to complete the first painting, start the next one, as well as start working on the layers. I will also have to start thinking about the peer review.

My Comments on Mr. Solarz's Class's Projects

History of Slot-machines+Building One
How Memories Are Recalled

Interchangable Artwork- Week 3

 This week we had a 4-day school week, so we didn't have as much time to work on our project. On Monday I copied one of the sketches that I did last week onto canvas so I will be able to paint it. On Tuesday I finished up with that, and read over the story now that Hyun has finished that. We did not have class on Wednesday, and on Thursday I found it hard to work. It was a long class, but Hyun and I used Photoshop to create tree shapes so we can use those shapes to create our trees for the different layers.

Next week I will have to start painting, as well as working on the layers. This will be difficult because I will not be able to paint at school.

I would love to try and create a demonstration from an image someone would like to see. If you have any ideas please leave a comment.

Interchangeable Artwork- Week 2 Reflecttion

This week we were able to work on our projects in class. Over the weekend I used blender, a tree dimensional modeling/animating program, to make a scale model of my project frame. I decided to this because most of the people I have talked to have been confused on how this would work and/or what it would look like. On Monday we weren't working on this project but our reflections from our class assignment/projects. Tuesday Hyun and I finished the story outline. At one point we couldn't think of what "object" we would use, as well as how that would affect the story. We were able to use the SmartBoard so we scribbled using the pen tool. Though it may sound weird I have done this a lot. You try to find ideas in the scribble by finding things the lines form. Though we did not get the object using this method we did think of how it would affect the story. Thursday the first thing Hyun and I did was come up with the object. We were finally able to agree on what it could be. This would have happened sooner, however I did not understand the other concept. Later that day we split off and worked on different aspects of this project. Hyun worked on the story while I worked on the background sketches. On Friday we kept working on our separate things. By the end of class I was able to finish the three sketches. I also thought that it would be good to show an example of a flat image and turn it into the layered art. If you leave me a comment with something you may want to see then I'll see what I can do. Overall I think Hyun and I were productive this week. We were able to get a lot done.

To see pictures and point form of what we did over the weeks we worked on this project look under the Project 1 page.

Room Layout Reflection

For our group reflection Click Here.

For my individual reflection I will be assessing myself on a scale between 0 and 5, 0 being the worst.

My groups task was to redesign the classroom layout. We were tasked with this after we got a SmartBoard, and not all the students would be facing it. I would give myself a 4 for understanding the task. I understood what to do, but I didn't really understand why. Me and my group didn't really think about who the stakeholders would be, and we didn't make a scale model, I would give myself a 2 for breaking down the problem because I didn't think about stakeholders or do any research on how to make a floor plan. The next step was to redefine the problem. I don't really think that we had to do this because the problem was already clear, however Ms.Lees reminded us that she was our stakeholder and she had some things she wanted to add. For redefining the problem I think I deserve a 3 because I don't think there was much for me to clarify, but I do think I helped clarify what we had to do now. That next step was to make a solution, in our case a floor plan. At first it wasn't at all to scale, so that wouldn't give an accurate plan. We then made a scale model (after informed by Ms.Lees) and it was extremely stressful. I would give myself a 4 on this stage because I often took measurements, created the scale furniture and helped place it, but I was still distracted a lot. The next day we executed the plan. I think I deserve a 3-4 on this stage. I didn't get distracted but I often felt overwhelmed because of all we had to do.

Overall I would give myself a 3-4. There was a lot of things I would improve, first of all I would ask the stakeholder what they want first. The next thing I would do is take pictures of where things go so I could put it back that way. The main thing I learned was that being an architect is hard work. I also learned what I need to do in a project where you are doing something for another person.

1st Project

Here is a link to my first proposal:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DeHYBtisPsDiOk6IK-eRf3pbzKGBX-Y3fRdL5RsBE-4/edit?usp=sharing

Personality Predictions

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Interpretive Instructions

     Though it is hard to see, the picture above shows many pieces of paper that were folded and ripped in different ways. Nothing earth-shaking right? The thing is everyone was given the same instructions. As it says in the picture... What does it mean?

     

    This was one of many activities me and my class did in our Project Design and Development Course, also known as Genius Hour. Throughout these activities we have been learning more about our selves, by doing one on one chats with someone else and questions that open you up to think about who you are. We have also used these activities to improve our teamwork by doing the human knot. We've improved our communication by doing blind drawing instructions with a partner. All of these skills, or knowledge will help with our course, but this one activity really made me think.

    

    I really liked the outcome of this activity because it was all just so different. There were very few who looked the same, or ever remotely similar if you look at the designs the folds made. We were only given 5 instructions: 

1. Fold the paper in half 

2. Fold the paper in half again  

3. Fold the paper into a triangle  

4. Rip off the bottom right corner  

5. Unfold you're paper 

    

    All of this was while we had our eyes closed, which shows us two things. First of all it shows that when given vague instructions everybody will interpret them differently. With folding in half, which way? When making the triangle, how? Ripping the corner, what size? the other thing this shows is that we, as humans, look around at others in a group to see if we are doing something differently. We, as humans, look to see how to do something if we don't know. Because we weren't allowed to look we had to with instinct instead of the group majority.

    Here is an example of the activity:

    In larger groups there is a larger possibility for difference.

Gift Giving Experience Reflection

What Inspires Me

What Inspires Me

This picture inspires me. It shows that life is always changing, and the blur makes the outcome unclear. Though change can seem like a pattern, such as the seasons, each new season brings new challenges, and a different outlook than a previous one. No matter what something may seem to be at first everything is subject to change and will bring new challenges, goals, and performances. That is what inspires me.