This is the last week of genius hour and we have a little left to do. We need to focus on creating and practicing our presentation. We are gonna try to finish the entirety of our project over Christmas break. We did not do that much stuff this week besides finishing up our stories (which we will finish with 13). We are going to use slide carnival to do our presentation, and we will make sure it flows and engages the audience. When we started this project it started off very slow, but now at the end it has picked up and gotten somewhat enjoyable. We are without a doubt on a pace to finish and then hopefully deliver a good presentation. This project has taken us twelve weeks to complete and we are proud of it.
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We now have one more week to finish our genius hour project. I was sick this week, so I had very little time to work on it while I made up the rest of my school work this weekend. I just so happened to be out on Wednesday, so I also couldn't work on it during our designated time to work. I tried to get a little bit done, but I relied on C this week to do the majority. We did not get a chance to talk about what he completed, so I hope to get a chance to sometime this week. I know he wrote the story for this week which I am very happy he stepped in and wrote it this week while I couldn't help. I haven't read it yet, so I will also do that when he sends it to me sometime this week. We are presenting our projects soon, so we need to start preparing for that, and we need to continue adding the stories we haven't added yet. I hope to finally upload the website this week after I look at all the things and make sure I have given credit to all the places I got information and pictures from.
This week we got back on track with our project. The past three weeks we have had weird weeks, so it felt nice that we could finally go back to normal. We now have only a few weeks left until our deadline, so we are now in the decline in our workload. We are making a plan on how we are gonna finish this project and present it, and the majority of this week was talking about how we are gonna do that. I feel we are in a good place to finish our project and have more stories than we even said we were going to have at the beginning. We made a few decisions this week that will be a big deal. One of those is that we are not going to release our website until the last week of Genius Hour. We did this because we want more time to make it look nicer and we are going to add a few more stories and things before release. We also made our normal two stories per week which we feel might be two of our best stories. One involves the situation of how one of us was the bully. It shows the bully's perspective and how the situation affected them. We feel good about our project, and we are very proud of it. We can't wait for everyone to see it, and show everyone how bullying affects people in the hope that no one that reads it will bully anyone again.
For the third week in a row, this week was very interesting. First of all, it was Thanksgiving week, so we were off our usual groove. We also had already done our stories for this week, last week, so we didn't have to do any stories. We could not do a lot on Tuesday (which was when we worked on Genius Hour this week), so we wrote two more stories. This means that we will have two more stories on our final product. This blog post is going to be shorter than usual because we did not do much worth writing this week. We continued to touch up the website and plan to release it in the next couple of days. We feel like we are in a good position to finish our Genius Hour project and do what we sought to accomplish. Next week we will upload our two stories and continue to add new things to our website. We already have some sort of an idea on what we want to add to our website that will make it stand out. We should have enough story ideas to do, but in the case that we don't we will try to collect more on social media
Like last week this week was also very interesting. Genius Hour is normally on Wednesdays, but this week it was on Friday. That kind of threw us off of are groove again since it was only like forty-five minutes instead of an hour. We still tried to do some work though but just like last week we had to do the majority yesterday and today. We got a lot more work done this week than last week though. Next week it will be Thanksgiving Break, and it will be hard to do work during that period, so we decided to work extra hard this week, so we can do what we said and release it during week nine. One of the things very different about this week was the number of stories we decided to do. We attempted to get the stories through social media again, but no one came and told us any. We have decided that instead of using social media, we will get stories from people we know have been bullied and that will tell us the story. We did this for the first time this week and we got four stories. We did not want to have to worry about collecting the stories during Thanksgiving break, so we went ahead and did this week and next weeks. We have both decided that our website needs something more. It looks very good right now and we have a good layout, but we do not think it is enough. We are both trying to think about what we could add to make it better. We want first of all people to get to our website, and then we want them to stay on our website week by week, to read our stories. Right now we feel like we have the second objective done, but we need a hooker, so people will first of all go to our site. Overall though this was a very good week of Genius Hour and we are at a good pace to release our website next Sunday. Citations
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/568fdb55cbced686e2f84d5e/56c230db1d07c00b6645fa28/59a7036dbe42d66c6ece6707/1504805725124/Turkey+Clip+Art.png?format=1500w https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/story-telling-evolutionary-humanity.jpg https://jessicalaurenvine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/website-3227784_640.jpg This week was very interesting. We did not do very much work on Wednesday (which is our time to work on it in class), so we had to do the majority of this week on Saturday. We diverted our time to work on something else that was very important. It was already a crazy week too since we had a five day weekend before genius hour. We tried our best to keep working on our website, but it was a lot harder since we did not have communication. We did a few things and touched it up but nothing very mind blowing as we have done in the past few weeks. We hope for next week that we can get back into the groove and continue our website design. We planned last week that we would start collecting our stories through socials media. We struggled to find people who wanted to share their stories since being bullied is a serious topic. Instead of collecting stories this week we decided to push that back to next week and write our own stories this week. These stories are similar to the stories that we already wrote, but they just are in a different situation. We want to make sure our stories are interesting, and they leave an effect on the people who read them. We plan to try to collect some more stories next week. Even though this week was kind of crazy, we still managed to get some work done. I know we said we wanted to put our website out this week or next week, but that will be very hard to do now. We hope to put finishing touches up next week, but we will not release it till week nine. We should release our website with about 5 or 6 stories already up, and then we will continue uploading new stories each week.
This week marks the halfway part in our genius hour project. We feel like we are in a pretty good spot. We are exactly where we want to be which is finishing up our website in the next week or two weeks. We have worked hard, trying to finish up our website, so we can put it out, so people can see it. I believe if we continue on our path now we can finish our project without having to cram it into the last couple of weeks. We have more or less finished our first stories about our personal stories dealing with bullying. We will put those stories on our website next week, so when we share the website with people we will already have one story up, so people can see what the stories our like. We are going to start collecting our other stories from people in our school next week. This week we also continued adding visuals and information to our site. We should be done with this part of the project by next week or the week after that. We care a lot about visuals, so people will actually be interested in our information and stories, so that is why we are taking a while on this step. Next week we plan to do what we have done for the past two weeks. We want to get our website out as soon as possible, so it might even be out next week but probably not. Our big thing for next week is to collect stories through social media. Social media plays a big part in our society, so we will get people to share their stories and go to our website through that. This week we continued to work on the development of our website. We are still putting out bullying information on our site. We plan to be done with the information part of our site and then we will start to put various stories we collect on it. We are also starting to add visuals and other aesthetically pleasing things too. We don't want to just make our site packed with information, and we want to make it pop of the screen and make people read more. We want to be able to share as much information and stories as possible, so we need these aesthetics. Me and C have also started this week to create our first stories. We are both making one about a personal experience we had with bullying whether we were the ones bullying, the ones being bullied, or we saw someone getting bullied. We do not want to just look up stories online, so we are going to first create our own and then transition into asking others for their bullying stories. We want to share these stories to show how bullying affects people and then show some examples of bullying. We want to share our bullying stories in hope that others will share their stories too, so we can then share those stories on our website. Next week we plan to finish up our bullying stories that we started and put more information and aesthetics on our website. We should be done with the website at about week 7 and then we will focus mainly on stories and sharing our website. We feel to be in a good spot at the 5 week mark, and we will continue to work towards our goals of genius hour.
This week we started the creation of our website. We used the website WordPress to make our site. This week was without a doubt the hardest week we have had yet. We did not think creating a website would be this difficult. Even though this week was the hardest, it was also the most fun week we have had yet. We got to look at different tools and aspects of WordPress that will help us make our site better. We have not added much to our website this week just some basics because this week we just were exploring what WordPress was like. We also did a little bit of research this week. We finally have enough information to start adding it to our website next week, so we will no longer need to gather any more research. We want to split our website up between research and stories and a variety of other things. We plan to start putting out stories in the 6th week, so next week we can focus on the basics of our website. Specifically, next week we will be transferring all of our research to the website. We feel like we are in a good spot in our project by the 1/3 mark. We are finally getting past the research stage and we can now start the meat of our project. We should have our whole entire website laid out in the next two weeks. Then we will start spreading the word about our website and collecting stories.
This was another week of research, preparing for next week when we finally start to create our website. We found many new useful facts and once again learned more about what we would like our website to look like. This week we focused mainly on the prevention of bullying, learning that the first step you need to take is to help kids understand bullying better. One of the most important things to do is to encourage kids to do what they love, whether that is playing video games, playing sports, or other various hobbies. This will help boost their confidence, help them make friends, and protect them in the future from other bullying. It will also improve their spirit a lot and make them a lot happier. We also learned more about creating a website, looking at https://websitesetup.org/. This website was very helpful in highlighting key things we should put on our website. We also looked more into Wordpress and made the final decision of using that site to create our anti-bullying website. It has many benefits of using it and it is simple and free to use. This will be are main concern for the next 9 weeks of genius hour since we are now done with the research stage of our project. This week we learned more about bullying and creating our website. We are excited to finally start our website next week after these three weeks of research. We will split next week into a week of mostly website creation, but also a little bit of research.
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