My reflection is on my sgraffito clay project. The part I am most proud of for this assignment is how I was able to make the clay even and circular. I didn’t think I could make the circles perfect for my coasters, but it went very well. I liked the look of the glaze before firing for once because I think the outcome of the project will turn out to be nice. The most difficult part of this project was definitely getting the 4 coasters to stay evenly circled and leveled. It was really hard to get them into a perfect circle shape, but in the end I got them pretty even. Another hard part about this assignment was getting the glaze even on all of the coasters in order for them to have a similar look when drying and getting ready to fire. This assignment definitely connects with creativity in the 6 c’s because I had to plan out what I would make and how it would look. I had to plan out what my project would look like and how I would design my different coasters. I also had to think about the designs that would go on the 4 coasters. I can use this knowledge after this class in case I take an art class in college and work with clay. I am going to college for graphic design and some of the required classes to graduate involve at least one clay class, so I can use what I learned here and apply it there.
Category: Creativity
Statistics Q1
One of my statistics projects was asking 37 other students in the high school about their summer activities during Covid-19. We presented 4 of the questions to my class and showed them the results. I made a slides page with the 4 questions and the pie charts to go with it. My group members and I also added the percentages and pictures to go with the charts, so that it was easier to read and understand them. I enjoyed creating this with a group because we could decide which questions we would as together. One thing I would change for next time is to send the survey out to more people and see if the results could change a lot or just by a little bit. This goes under the collaboration and communication categories because I worked with a team of 3 others to create this project. I also communicated with the people who we wanted to take this survey for our results to come back.
Digital Productions Q1
This class we had to create a short film around 5 minutes. I was in a group with 2 other people, and we decided to create a short film about a murder mystery. This artifact I am most proud of how we were able to create a film while having limits with Covid-19. I am also proud of how we were able to create edits while at home on the days we were in class online. This is because edits can be hard when you are not together, but we found a way to make it work. I think the most difficult parts of this project was finding the right angles to shoot at when filming. We had to create certain angles and that would mean standing or sitting in a weird position in order to get that specific scene look. This definitely goes with creativity because we had to create our own story line, plot, script, props, camera angles, and edits. When we were first making the script we had a ton of different ideas, but in the end we figured out how to put them all together. If I had to change anything it would be the filming location. We could only film in certain rooms in the school because of the Covid-19 restrictions. But overall I thought this project turned out really good.
(I will put my short film link in here after we finish editing it)
Sample Post – Creative Repurposing
In my 8th grade FACS class, I had the opportunity to help make the world a better place by upcycling items that might have ended up in our landfills. Instead, I was able to upcycle pallet boards into a beautiful new table. My team and I spent a lot of time determining what color we would have the table. My dad, helped us put it together. We had some challenges with the staining and had to redo a section because it go too tacky. We needed a smooth finish. We also wanted to stage the table so that it would look nice and we would market it to potential buyers.
Below is a video of our journey. Throughout this process, we hit a number of the POG C’s. We had to collaborate together to build, stain, and stage a table that was going to be sold to potential buyers. We used communication skills to share and listen to each other’s ideas and determine our final product. We also had to use communication skills to showcase our piece to an audience. We enjoyed the opportunity to be creative and have a choice in what we would produce and our ideas would be seen and potentially bought by people in the real world. We had challenges along the way and had to think critically on how to resolve those challenges. And finally, I believe the artifact below showcases an element of citizenship – as we are trying to repurpose items and keep them out of our landfill.