Summarize the purpose of your Genius Hour project in 140 characters.
The purpose of our Genius Hour is/was to create an inviting space for conferences and for other children to relax and learn. Also to make this school more satisfying for members of our community. Explain the process of your Genius Hour project. Be reflective. Be contemplative. Explain and describe your journey. (No Less Than Three FULL Paragraphs.) Our plan for our Genius Hour project was to redecorate Room 110. For the process of redecorating the room, we planned on getting tiles for every activity or club that our school offers. Also we wanted to get curtains to make the space no to much like a conference room, which is a section of what the room is used for. The last idea was to redo the bulletin board on the wall with school from the newspaper. After planning out what my group decided to do, we had to make sure everything was okay to do with the principal or vice principal. We had some complications to try and set up a meeting to discuss the situation. It took about a month due to their busy schedule and our class time or busy activities after school. Once we got around to talking about our plan, we had to make sure that we incorporated all the activities help through the school and to make sure the colors all tied together in the room. The curtains we wanted to get were too expensive, so we decided that we should just make the curtains but ran out of time because of the late notice of what we could do. We did get what we mostly planned on happening to redecorate the room which was the tiles. The board was if we had extra time in between the rest of the room. My group tried to do all we could but with the circumstances with after school sports/activities and our occupied class schedule we could not make everything we wanted to do come to reality.
The intention For Genius Hour is NOT only to learn, but ALSO to share your knowledge with others who can and will benefit from your learning. How did you share your learning? What do you hope the result might be? (No Less Than Two Full Paragraphs.)
Through the year, we were assigned a projected called Genius Hour to contribute to the community and our own lives. To benefit the school, my group came up with the idea to redecorate Room 110. To make the space more inviting to the community we decided to put up tiles and curtains. With the setbacks of sports and our busy schedules we did not get we intended to do done. Setting up times to meet with Mr. Roberts was the responsibility we had to take. We learned from this project that you can’t finish everything in a month. My group had to take a large responsibility to taking to the staff of the school and to make all of this happen under our time during school. It was not the easiest to figure out with our schedules. With creating this new room we could get more people joining the school because of the friendly environment. If we could get kids to help participate with changing other rooms, we could save up more money for electronics and other improves for the school because we would be recycling old materials. Learning how to take responsibility in this project has helped me and the community feel better about what our school have changed into.
If you could do anything different with your Genius Hour project what would you do differently and why? (No less than two full paragraphs.)
The setbacks that my group faced through this year has made us realize that we took on too much. One thing I would have changed in our project is to take less time trying to plan everything out instead of taking action right away to getting everything done. With what we planned to do we should have gave each of us a certain job to get dine by a certain to make all we wanted to do to get done. Another reason that I would do differently is to do my project by myself because with my group we got distracted by other things happening then by doing our project. We all started to slack making up not get everything we planned done. If I did it by myself the next time I feel like I would be able to get more done because I’m not relying on others to get there part done when I could have gotten everything done at once. Reflect on what you did well during this Genius Hour process? Note your successes and accomplishments. (No less than two full paragraphs.) During my Genius Hour, we did get some of what we planned to do done. With talking to the school staff we encountered an accomplishment by talking to the top people of the school, which may seem frightening to some people. Also talking personally with Mr. Roberts, we also accomplished the same skill. Talking to the other staff through the school helped us make our plan come together. We also successfully worked together as a group. In the group we have been about to talk professionally about our ideas and have gave suggestions to help improve those ideas. Being able to pick the group did help because we can be open and not feel like we are being judged. Include any videos, pictures, presentations, or artifacts that will document your journey.