Blog posts
4-26-16
The biggest problem I faced was figuring out to do with my time. Sometimes I would find myself with nothing to do but then at the end everything piled up because I forgot about some things like the posters. I Found things to do close to the end of my project and I could have managed my time better and thought out thoroughly what I would be doing every week and day. I feel like I never overcame this challenge because like I said everything just piled up a the end. I regret not using my time to the best of my ability, it felt like my project was in total shambles by the end. I had things to do that I could have done earlier in this project. It was so stressful, especially more towards the end. One thing I think ill remember 10 years from now is how I decided to help out the school. I don't think ill forget this project, It was very interesting. This project actually tout me to use my time better and that I should really take things seriously so I finish in time. I think it would be a good idea if schools all around did the 20% project. Its a good project and I feel like the students would really like it. It would be a great opportunity for students to explore anything of there choice and just to discover how important skills are. They would learn about time management, problem solving, collaboration/teamwork, critical thinking, creativity/imagination and many other important skills. This project is perfect for that and I think It would be very beneficial for everyone. I feel like this projects was the opposite of monotonous, It was something different and new to our school which was very cool. Shutout to you Stephen, bomb teacher!
4-18-16
I emailed Libby about my project and she sent out an e-mail to the school about my project. Some people are actually using the buckets! I finally started collecting food and the buckets are all set up. I still need to get a couple more but it's going well. Some people are really excited about using the buckets so that really helps me keep going. I still need to hang up my new posters so that will be my next step, I accidentally messed up on them because when I printed them out they come out all pixelated and blurry but Roxy told me how to fix that so I'm in the process of doing that. I might go in for lunch tomorrow so she can help me with that. I also e-mailed Libby and I told her if the people that clean after school could help me collect all the food scraps, and she's said it was okay so I'm talking to Christine, who is in charge of those students how I want them to do things. I haven't really had any difficulties so that good, just the posters. I haven't learned anything academically I've just been collecting food scraps and finishing the posters.
4-8-16
I haven't learned much since my last blog post but I have been figuring out ways to raise money for my project. I will be sending out an e-mail to Libby any day now so she can send out an email to the entire school telling them about my bake sale. I am also setting out a jar for donations at the front desk on Monday. I think I have everything under control. I am so exited!!! I was in the herald yesterday and the bucket/trashcan finally got here! I'm feeling really good right now! yahoo!! I printed out the signs I will but over the buckets so people know what to put in them and what not. I should have printed them out on green paper but I didn't i'm thinking on doing it though, I also made some posters to hang around the school, they just talk about the buckets and they tell people to use them. I think that will help people notice them if they haven't. I am in the process of refining them at the moment so I will be getting those up soon, probably Tuesday. The only thing i'm having trouble with is finding what to do in class all next week. I think Ill have my poster done bye Monday or Tuesday. Other then that I think i'm doing well.
3-23-16
I really enjoyed the gallery walk today! Janae gave me a good idea, I'm so exited! Instead of making a green house I could just plant things around the school, she told me that it could be a part of the janitor group of students that are cleaning the school. That way I have helpers helping me plant things around the school. Talking to people about this helped a lot. A lot of people liked my project and that motivated me to keep going forward. This week I talked to Kurt and he offered me buckets because he has a lot of them so now I don't need to worry about buying so many. I finished making sighs for the buckets and i'm meeting with David from the Table to Farm Compost so that's exiting. I will final be able to meet and talk to him about the details. I have been doing a lot of waiting because I haven't had the chance to talk to him about the details or get the bucket so I have been doing more research. I have been stumped on what to do while I wait besides research. My next step is to figure things out with David and start setting up the buckets If I get the bucket soon. I also meed to start fundraising soon for the pick up.
3-16-16
So far I have been doing some research on compost and I have learned a lot on what to collect and what not to collect to make good compost. I also started making plans with David and he wants to come to the school and meet me and to check out our and pick up the deposit. I'm so happy things are going well so far. I came up with plan on how to collect all the food wast thrown away, which is just to simply set up buckets in classrooms and hallways an then pick them up at the end of each day and put them all in the 32gal bucket we will be receiving in about a week or so. I also started making signs for the buckets saying what should be put in them and what shouldn't. Nothing has gone wrong yet so that's good! My next step is to figure out a way to make money to pay for the pick ups. I need to get some money ASAP so I can buy the buckets and pay for the pickups. I haven't been to busy though so I need to find things to do while I wait for the bucket., I cant start without it. My time could be used more efficiently though, I have just been doing research on compost there isn't much to do. but I'm so exited to start making the school a more resourceful place.
3-9-16
This week I decides to start a new project. I'm doing my project on food, I'm going to be starting a program here at Animas that will make compost with all the extra food we throw away. There is a lot of food being wasted so I think Its a good idea. I have started researching and looked at the Table to Farm Compost website, its a website of an organization here here in Duranago that makes compost and I learned a little about there processes. I started with rewriting my 20% project proposal and I finished it. So i'm taking a new path with this project and I feel pretty good about it. My next step would be to find a mentor and make a spastic plan of things I need to do and maybe start writing a proposal to make a compost program here at school. I still need to figure things out but i'm exited to get rolling. I feel like I have more to do with this new idea/project.
3-3-16
This week I have been doing some research on hunger and I have learned some basic facts about hunger like 1 out of 10 people don't have food to eat. I'm also trying to learn more about how to be convincing and how to inspire people so I get people to do more community service. I have also Started writing my presentation so I have time to memorize it so I don't have to use a parer or note cards to read off of. There isn't anything that has gone wrong yet but I'm kind of on the edge about this project. I feel like I wont get anything done And that I have way to much time To do what I planned. I guess I need to find more things to do but I don't now what. I feel like When I don't have instructions and dead lines set by someone else I wont get anything done. I don't trust my self to do my own project. I feel like I will get nothing done. Failure is calling my name, and I don't want to fail. I don't want to waist my time. I feel like most of the time I will have nothing to do. My next step is to write my presentation and find out how to make a good presentation.
3-2-16
I decided to do my project about helping out others. My idea is to go help at the Manna soup kitchen and also talk to middle schoolers about helping the community to try and get them to help out more. With all there help we can make Durango a better place. I think it will be difficult for me to go talk to the middle schoolers but I think I can do it, I just need to push my self. I get really nervous talking in front of big groups of people and I want to get better at that. Moving on to what audience and student created learning are, I'm not quite sure what audience created learning is but I know what student created learning is. Student created learning is a project created by students that are personalized to them selves. So they are doing the project for them. I guess audience created learning is projects made for an audience but i'm not sure. I missed the first couple days of this project so I haven't got anything done yet, but my next step would be to plan on preparing what I am going to tell my audience. I am so exited to get started with my project.