Week 1 - Rotating and Finding Out The New Project

 My name is Federica Ottonello and I'm in year 8, this is my MYP Arts Process Journal. On this blog you will find documented evidence of my learning through The Arts | Drama | Music. This term I am going to be completing this journey in Music. My strongest subject is Drama and I want to develop my skills in Music but especially Art.

Interdisciplinary unit - The Art of Story Telling English Visual Art Music 

 Key Concept: Communication

Related Concept: Narrative

Global Context: Personal & Cultural Expression

Statement of Inquiry: Symbols and conventions used to convey meaning to audiences are influenced by time and space

Inquiry Question: What is the relationship between arts and audiences?

ATLs:  Social collaboration, Research: Media Literacy, Self Management: Organization/Affective
Skills

POWERPOINT - Gamelan puppet show / Phantasmagoria project

Work in Progress

Picture of our plan for the PowerPoint  

Me working on the PowerPoint and adding the finishing touches

Maria organizing her homework and what she needs to do on the PowerPoint

Me planning what goes on each slide

Rana brainstorming her ideas

Adding all the final effects (making it look pretty)

Video showing all of the PowerPoint

Reflection

During the two lessons that I had this week, I got the chance to work with people I had never worked or even wanted to work with, however Ms. Cross and Ms. Turner did give us the choice of picking our own groups and so I decided why not give it a shot. I must admit, I'm extremely happy with my decision and my group and I managed to create a wonderful PowerPoint because we worked together, collaborated very well and most importantly we spoke to each other so ideas we said and everything was taken into consideration; no one got left out and everyone did their part/ completed on time. The task that was given to us was  to pair up with a person who did the same unit as you (in my case it was the Phantasmagoria unit) and I picked Maria. Our second instruction was, with your partner, make a group of four with another pair who did the opposite topic as you. Maria and I chose Rana and Yasmeen who had done the Gamelan Puppets. Our final instruction was to create a PowerPoint which had to include how we were going to create a show telling a story and incorporating both the Gamelan Puppets and Phantasmagoria Shows. I think that our group did a good job because we added quite a lot of information regarding the question but especially  we separated our ideas on different slides so it wouldn't be confusing or chaotic. We also had to include the skills that we think we will use/ develop/ learn during the term. As an extra we decided to add a video which visually explains our ideas so if the students didn't understand what we came up with, we could show them in a video so they understand. Overall I think we worked very well together because we didn't leave everything to the last minute we assigned each of us a slide or two and then emailed each other the PowerPoint. I even created a WhatsApp group so we could share all the pictures and videos we took during the lesson so it would be easy when it came to do our reflections. I am really excited to present this to the class, not only because I'm extremely proud of our work but because I'm extremely happy I got to work with Maria, Rana and Yasmeen and I hope that in future projects I get to work with them again.