Group 4
Alison Kwok 3T (17)
Nichole Cheung 3T (9)
Chelsea Wong 3S (32)
Sharon Ng 3A (25)
15th July, 2016
We had a visual design
lesson today and we learnt more about creative art and drawing with confidence.
We did an exercise on visual thinking and drawing, for example, using different
fonts of various sizes to wrote out the characters of alphabets from A to Z
with a permanent marker, then seeing how confident we are in ourselves. We were
asked to first use a pencil or a colored pencil to draw a draft of all our
letter, then trace them back with the permanent markers. Through this exercise,
we had a boost in confidence as we learnt that even though we might make a
mistake with our pencils and colored pencils, we could correct and overlap our
mistakes and change our drawings by using that permanent marker. We also
understood that making mistakes are perfectly fine, as they are a good way of
learning, and that as long as we learn from our mistakes and change what we
have done wrong; making mistakes aren't bad at all. We were also given three
different choices- to continue with our previous construction, to begin a new
sketch or to start a company and build a car.
Some of us chose the 2nd
option, which was to design a new sketch. Some chose the 3rd option,
which was to build a company and construct a new car. We all had fun doing our
own little projects. The group mates that chose to design a new sketch sat
outside in the lounge and shared their ideas on the new project. We combined
all our ideas and art together and constructed our different ideas and we all
applied the new things we learnt in our previous lessons about visual design
and creativity. By the end of the lesson, both groups of people learnt that
creativity didn’t only come from one person or any particular person, yet
everyone put together would boost creativity and expand ideas. We also learnt
that creativity can come is various ways from various people, and that by
applying that creativity we can then succeed in making something new and
original. The people who chose the 3rd choice and built a car also
learnt about creativity, but in another method. We first wrote different car
brand names like BMW, Benz, Acura and anything that has similar function with
cars like bicycle, train, horse on little memo sheets and stick onto a big
drawing paper. After combining and elaborating our ideas, we finally came out
to have a car to have 6 wheels, 4 seats and self-driving. By putting our ideas
together, we managed to compose a weird but creative and original car.
We also gained insight
on how we should judge media from our own perspectives. We learnt that not all
media is made equal. Bloggers can put forth any opinion on any topic, with no
qualifications required. This might harm the person the blogger may writing
about or harm the person in various ways. Also, the biography offered by the
author might or might not be entirely true. Anyone can say whatever they want
on a blog, so it is quite unsafe for teens nowadays to trust everything the
media puts out there and says. Blogs used to be the places where people got the
most trustworthy information before, and at the time, people really believed in
blogging and the blogs people put out on t eh internet. However, the internet
is dangerous and can be full of fakes, so we have to be aware of our beliefs
and we mustn’t believe everything the internet says these days.
We
also learnt more about better communication. Communication
is when there is feedback and overall it consists of 3 things. The first is to listen to
the speaker and receive the information. Then we are supposed to decode the
message
and to give feedback that we have heard the message. Communication can be
compared to that of a tennis match, like the back and forth of a tennis match.
There are also different types of medium and communication, for example radio
station broadcasting through a transmitter, phone calling and texting. To
transmit a message, or to know if someone’s listening or not, a person can see
if people have called the show to give on opinion, or to leave a text message
and voice out their comments and their opinions. Newspapers and magazines
however, have a different method of transmitting information. Feedback on an
article in the newspaper can be recorded by the editorial page by writing to
the editor, or by commenting on their websites or blogs.
Reflection
Today,
we had our very last visual design lesson, and we had a great time today. For
the first part, we have practiced calligraphy. We have learnt how to improve
our handwriting and the importance of having good handwriting. A neat and tidy
handwriting can impress people and may also give an artistic quality, so we are
going to apply what we have learnt in this session in our daily life by trying
to improve our handwriting and please our teachers with tidy homework. During
the second part of the lecture, we have been divided into groups and we focused
on different work - some of us started new individual sketches, and the others
work on a design, such as designing a car of the future, in groups.
Most
of us chose to participate the last activity, “establishing a company”, which
means we had to make something new and special by combing all our ideas
together. In today’s lesson, we decided to make a car. We first wrote different
car brand names like BMW, Benz, Acura and anything that has similar function
with cars like bicycle, train, horse on little memo sheets and stick onto a big
drawing paper. We got endless ideas and we use a large amount of memos to write
our ideas on, the process was fun! After combining and elaborating our ideas,
we finally came out to have a car to have 6 wheels, 4 seats and self-driving.
Although it seems weird and funny, we enjoyed this activity as it gave us a
chance to strengthen our team work and let us to be more creative. We were all
so impressed in our unique invention!
After
this session, we have learnt that we can unleash our creativity and come up
with a new idea immediately; on the other hand, we have also learnt how to work
with others and how we will benefit from it, for example, we can exchange ideas
and know more about other people's thinking. This skill would be very useful
when we are doing group project as we can know more about others' thoughts and
hence improve the quality of the output.
We
also found the internet blogging lesson very useful for our everyday life as
the teacher us how to avoid being fooled on the internet. We should believe in
professional journals, books and documentaries other than blogs on the internet
as people could fool around using fake identities. After the teacher gave some
examples of internet fraud, we were so shocked about the various methods of the
swindlers that we swore to be more careful of the internet in the future. For
example, some people will disguise as experts on the web and spread false
information in order to deceive people. Last but not least, we learnt how to
comment on other classmates’ blogs. We appreciated it and found it fun to do so
as we could make use of all our resources and communicate more with our
classmates. We could make new friends or strengthen our friendship by then.
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