City Connection Reflection

Recently in Humanities, we made a PowerPoint project about a city we lived in. I chose Singapore because I lived there for a while, eight years to be precise.
One thing that I think I did well on was providing ample information in the project. I also made sure that all my sentences were grammatically correct and had good spelling. I also chose a background that was simple and I didn't put any images or backgrounds that had lurid colors in them. I believe that presentations should be visually appealing, and not have a blue background with bright red polka dots, which would look hideous.
I think that for future presentations, I should choose some images that blend in to the background a little better and maybe have a little more information on what I am doing, not that I didn't have much in this presentation!
I learned that even if you don't have much time to do a presentation, you should always do the best job you possibly can. If you only have a limited amount of time to complete the presentation, you are more inclined to do a rush job of the presentation than you are to do a good job, but you always have to do the best you can, or your presentation will, quite frankly, stink.
I learned some things from other people's presentations as well. One thing that I learned was that not all cities with a population over 100,000 have an airport, some can be quite remote and are only accessible by train or road. I used to think that most cities today would have an airport that at least one major carrier would go to, but no.
I met the requirements of the rubric by putting all the things that it required in the presentation! I put graphics and maps in, and the historic and environmental factors.
I think that I did the organization of the PowerPoint quite well, it did not have busy colors and it was relatively simple. And also, the sentences were not too long and I didn't put too much information into it, I put just enough. One thing that I think I should work on is trying to find images that blend almost seamlessly with the background, not having a red background with a black and white picture for example. Overall, I think I did pretty well on this project, considering that I did not have too much time to do it and how much information is needed for a PowerPoint presentation like this.

Learning Profile

  I learn best when we do a fun activity or experiment in a class like science. When we do an experiment or activity, I remember things that we have learned far, far better because we would have done something memorable instead of just sitting there listening to a teacher give dull lectures. I find that when we don't do an experiment or activity, a lot of the stuff I learned in that class I simply forget!
  I need to be able to keep things that I learn in my head, especially in math. I hate it when I forget a bunch of stuff that I have learned and then do poorly in a test. Information just seems to migrate away from my mind and blow away in the wind.
  The strategies that would help me in my learning would be to jot down notes on a piece of paper and then look over them later until the information is imprinted in my brain permanently. But I never seem to remember to do this. Maybe I should write down a note that tells me to write down notes in class.
  I would like my teachers to know that I am always wanting to extend my vocabulary and learn how to use advanced words in the proper context, which I sometimes don't do. I also want my teachers to know that I like to do activities in class and not just sit in a chair listening to a teacher go on and on and on about some dull subject that we covered several classes back and we have been working on for several days.

 This is an image of my learning profile letter and all my dominant body parts. They are all on the right side.

My New Years Resolution Post

  My first resolution for the year of 2011 is to get more organized. My locker is a shambles, so is my room, and I always seem to find myself hollering questions about where my iPod or other things are at home. And on top of that, my parents are always telling me to get more organized and I don't. So I think that I should make an effort to get more organized when we move into our new house this year.
  My second resolution is to be able to retain things that I have learned in class for tests. It isn't that I am not listening, no, it is that I simply forget what we learned, especially in math class. My results on tests have not been the best, and I want them to improve, and it isn't because my parents are saying that if I want a certain present at the year, I have to get better! It is because I want to get those grades up and be able to retain information successfully. 
  This Christmas holiday was quite good. I went to Yunnan Province in China and visited Kunming, LiJiang, Shangri-La (no, not the one with the elixir of life!) and Dali, a small town in between LiJiang and Kunming. The best part in my opinion was Shangri-La. We got to stay in the Banyan Tree: a very, very luxurious hotel for a total of two nights and got a room with two floors. The upper floor was the living area and the beds, and the lower floor was a huge bathroom and one room. There was also a nice rock garden with a small patch of snow. But I didn't think that that measly patch was enough, so I climbed over to the next room's balcony, went down the stairs to the rock garden with a container, and scooped up lots of snow and brought it back to our room. It was very cold in Shangri-La, though and whenever I exhaled, a big cloud of steam would come from my mouth.
  One talent I possess is making LEGO animations. I make them frame by frame and upload them to YouTube on my channel CWMmedia. It is a very tedious process; taking a picture, moving a minifigure slightly, taking another picture, and so on. But in the end, all the hard work pays off in the form of a nice and smooth animation. I just made an order for minifigure parts for my next film, with the US Army on the island of Guadalcanal in World War 2. I think that this film will be a good one and I am looking forward to making it.