Reflection

1. Reflection

2. Mistakes – value of • Take/use knowledge into the Diploma • AOI understanding • Others’ work • Display preparation • Value of appropriate goals • Biggest problems faced

3. Areas of Interaction How did having an area of interaction help your project? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________

4. Approaches to Learning Read the elements of this Area of Interaction opposite. Pick two points and write two paragraphs about how your project developed your understanding or the way you learn. ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________

5. Community & Service Read the elements of this Area of Interaction opposite. Pick two points and write two paragraphs about how your project developed your understanding in these areas. ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________

6. Environments Read the elements of this Area of Interaction opposite. Pick two points and write two paragraphs about how your project developed your understanding in these areas. ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________

7. Human Ingenuity Read the elements of this Area of Interaction opposite. Pick two points and write two paragraphs about how your project developed your understanding in these areas. ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________

8. Health & Social Education Read the elements of this Area of Interaction opposite. Pick two points and write two paragraphs about how your project developed your understanding in these areas. ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________

9. Displaying your project Given time and resources how would you choose to improve your exhibition display? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________

10. Presenting your project Think of four ‘points of interest’ that you would use in a presentation of your project. A point of interest should be surprising, engaging, creative or just different to break up the presentation. Examples include demonstrations, using props, using costume, visual metaphors, stories, questions to the audience, surveying, handouts etc. Be specific in your answers – for example: Demonstrate how to wear a kimono step by step, asking a volunteer from the audience to be a model. ___________________________________________________________________________ 2. ____________________________________________________________________________ 3. ____________________________________________________________________________ 4. ____________________________________________________________________________

11. The value of mistakes What do you think was your greatest mistake in the personal project? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Think of a keyword or keywords to represent your answer and complete this online form which will be used to help advise next year’s students. https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHdOV1hQWFVkUkxHTEhoUVBrTzhLbHc6MQ How can you avoid this in future projects? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________

12. The PP word cloud • Word Cloud 1: The Personal Project Report • Open a copy of your Personal Project Report and copy all the text. • Go to www.wordle.netand click on ‘Create’ • Paste the text into the first box and click ‘Go’ • You can customize your word cloud’s colours and text • Although there is no button to save your word cloud, you can press Fn+F11 to ‘Print Screen’ – this copies the contents of the screen to the clipboard. • Paste this into a graphics programme (Paint, Photoshop, etc), crop and save. • Word Cloud 2: The Personal Project Experience • Create a list of key words that you associate with your personal project experience, in order of importance. • Copy and paste the most important words many times, others just a few times, and the least important ones, leave only one word. • Create a word cloud as before using www.wordle.net • Save your word cloud as you did before using the ‘Print Screen’ function (FN+F11) Create a word cloud of your personal project experience & essay by following these steps:

13. How I like to learn Through your personal project, you have probably learnt about how you learn best and the kinds of things the work well for you. List them below: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Your learning What I like to learn Through your personal project, you have probably learnt about the kinds of things you enjoy learning about. List them below: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________

14. What next? If you could spend another year investigating your topic, what else would you study? What goals would you set yourself? ___________________________________________________________________________ 2. ____________________________________________________________________________ 3. ____________________________________________________________________________ 4. ____________________________________________________________________________ How could the project help you choose which Diploma courses to take? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________