By: Marco Kee
Category: English 9
Speech Unit Reflection
During this assignment, I learned a lot about making informative podcasts. At the beginning, I was able to learn about podcast-recording websites such as anchor or audacity. I eventually decided to use anchor for my assignment. This is a tool that I will likely use again for future projects. In addition, the strategies that I used during my research, involved immediately recording sources I had found after reading them. This helped me remember to later cite them in MLA format using EasyBib (bibliography generator). I found the Gale Topic Finder and Google Advanced Search Engine especially helpful when I conducted my research. These helped me narrow down the articles that I could use. Lastly, I feel I could improve my research for the next assignment by finding more statistical data on the topic to add on my research paper as evidence for an argument.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Performance
My Self-Portrait
Reflection
My visual representation is innovative because it shows all of the places that have moulded me into who I am today. I also included a background that shows outer space which represents the complex values that these places have taught me.
The ideas I used in this project were developed when I thought about the past experiences in my life. I then turned the main topic of my self portrait to talk about how the many places I have lived in and visited have influenced me on how I should live.
I also really liked how I could show clippings of my important places in the visual representation. It was interesting how I could get an image of myself, and add it into the middle of the portrait to complete it.
Furthermore, I feel I could improve my self-portrait by adding more subtle symbols or elements that have intricate meanings.
In my opinion, this project helped me learn how to incorporate my creative ability into the portrait. This is because I learned how to move items around and add certain applications to make the portrait stand out. It also taught me some patience, as their are many options that have to be carefully looked at to make the project come together.