PBL reflections

we have chosen our essential question: What were the major events of WWII and how can they be reenacted? We also are researching more and more about what we have to do. We are going to reenact D-Day and pearl harbor, and possibly Russia. We are still researching more and more to find out what else we can add to our project.

pbl goals

Today i am planning on working with my brothers to figure out what to do next with our project. We are going to change our essential question to make it more in-depth and we are going to research more about the events of WWII. I am also still working on my video, i have park footage i also need to include in my video to make it more entertaining.

Daily goals

Me, Mitchell, and Davis have been brainstorming for a project. We FINALLY found one about alkali metals but it was to dangerous and we couldn't get the materials. So we are back to the drawing board trying to find another idea on a project. We want our project not to be a powerpoint and to have a lot of stuff interacting with each other. We were also thinking about doing something involving science. I plan on completing my goal by completing the project planning form..

End of the day reflections

I made alot of changes on my snowboard project. I added some audio, and fixed some parts. I want to add a little bit more footage if I can get some more shots. I also have been brainstorming with Davis, we did not find a project yet but we are close.

PBL goals

My goals today are to find out my ideas for my project and continue on snowboard video. I emailed my experts and I have a lot of feedback to fix my video to make it more exciting. I plan on working on my video right away. I am using imovie to fix my video. I need to add transitions and tune the audio up a little bit. Me and Davis are going to be brainstorming good ideas for our project so we can get a good head start on it. I will put the new video up as soon as I can.

Literary Analysis 3

In the book City of Thieves, the time period sets the story. The two boys, Lev and Koyla set out on a journey for eggs so the chief of polic could have food. It is tough because there is no eggs in the city. The period(WWII) effected the city in numerous ways. People are dying everyday, there is no food, and some people have no place to live. The author really sets the dark mood in the book by explaining the devastation of WWII.

PBL reflection

Today i have been working on my story topic for my video which is going well because i have it all planned out now. I need to commentate and finish my video by friday. My next steps are to research the development of snowboarding.

Literary Analysis 2

In "the city of thieves" the author shows the reader how awful WW2 was for Russia. Every single day Germans bombard Leningrad with bombs and other weapons. Food is scarce as the citizens are forced to make bread out of items like wood and fake flour. Cannibals can also be found living in some houses. The city is torn apart, every building is roped up, boarded up, and closed down. There are no more cars besides military vehicles roaming the streets looking for people past their curfew. Lev was caught looting a dead German which is illegal. After being taken out of jail with a friend named Koyla that he met, they were lucky enough to go on a task to find eggs for the chief. David shows the reader the pain of Russia and the feelings of the people in the middle of WW2.

goals for tday

work on story of video and get flvs done

Daily goals

I want to find the story for my project today

Literary response 1

I am reading the book "City of Thieves" by David Benioff. David attempts to recreate his Grandfathers story in Leningrad during ww2. His grandfather, Lev Beniov, does not remember much. He knows he killed 2 Germans, and he has a messed up index finger from the war. David Benioff creates a first person story about Lev and how he is determined to stay in Leningrad. The book is an eye-opener to the events in Russia and how awful the war was.

Project reflections

The project was important to me because i felt like i was learning a lot about ww1 and how to use more tools like the forums and ohpedia. I also got to work with other people in rosemary from colorado. I felt like the project opened up more opportunities for more collaboration through other sites such as the forums or webs. there is also more room to be creative in future projects.

At some points me and my partner had communication issues but at most times we were doing our work. I was very happy with how much information was on our lesson and hard we worked on it. I will remember the game in this project because it was such a good example of ww1.

Brainstorming ideas for the next project+goals

goal: find my essential question and complete project panning form.


snowboarding
culture
film
editing
video
publish video
warren miller
teen culture boarding
video games
designing
interviewing

daily goals

goal for today: submit as much chem as possible and do 1 alg.

daily goals in reflection of process

goal: at least 3 resubmitted in chemistry


I think the process of the project is going pretty good. We have already got responses from our experts and finish our OHpedia. We are beginning to work on the lesson now. We are on pace.

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daily goals

sending my written work to experts today.
should be cool
also i need to proof read my paper

daily goals

get far on my paper

Daily goals

write some more paragraphs on benchmarks

My daily goals

My goal for today is to get my project planning form check and do research on the project.

Daily goals check this out

Did you achieve your daily goals?
Why or why not?
What did you notice about yourself as a learner today?


I achieved my goal today. My goal was to finish my project planning form. It took me a while to find experts but i finally found them. i also had to write down my benchmarks for the standard.

I achieved my goal today because i did not talk much. i worked on my goals all day to not linger. I have a lot of obl to do this week because i was sick for the past week

I learned that sometimes i do not talk much. I also learned how hard it can be to google things. Especially finding experts for world war I.

Daily goals

figure out where we are in the project process. (missed last week besides monday)
get work done for the project.

Metacognition

Metacognition is to think about ones own mental process. I think in my own words it is thinking about thinking.

Civil War Project

My Civil War project was done with Mckenzie and Nathan. My essential question was: What led up to, what happened, and what were the repercussions of the Civil War? This was definitely an interesting project and it had its ups and downs. One of the first things i will remember about this project is the website that we did. Another thing that i will remember is the video we tried to setup for the video(Jing). The last thing that i will remember was the failure in our presentation. It messed up with ooVoo and the internet.

the website was very interesting. We got the idea from Mrs. Amy because she did something with pbworks before. Pbworks was very organized. My group had certain topics and tabs that we had to work on. Since we had to meet certain things inside the standards, we all were assigned things such as consequences or reconstruction. I think it worked out well and we learned a lot about doing wikis and websites.

The Jing attempt was hard because you cannot edit the video. One little messup in the video and you had to redo every single slide. We eventually had a good take after many hours of trying and i thought it was fine. We edited another one after that and i also thought it was fine. Somehow Mckenzie ended up recording the whole thing without me knowing in the end. I do like the concept of Jing though. I will remember it because of the time it took.

The thing i will remember the most is our presentation. i will remember it because the internet was not cooperating with our computers. I do think we should have tested the internet more. I thought our presentation went well without our skit even though Mckenzie started talking before i could say anything the whole presentation.


I feel like i learned a lot about the civil war from this project. I had a good time, there were just some frustrations along the way. The website was my favorite part of the project because i learned how to make new pages. I think next time we need to find a new program. The presentation could also have been more prepared. Those are the things i remember.