Its almost halfway. Week 5, 1 week before the halfway mark. I'm glad it's moving along. This week I've had to work more often after school and that will continue for the rest of the week. This leaves me less time to complete my blog updates but I'm still getting it done on time. There are some issues I need to update everybody on in this blog post however. That issue being the lack of pictures in the other main section of my website.
People have recommended for me to add pictures to each event in the "Acts" section, and I have a legitimate reason as to why I do not have any pictures, and it's not that I'm lazy. The flow I have set for the "Acts" section is very clean and smooth. It is easy to follow and distinguish which section is which. Adding pictures in would disrupt the flow and I think it will ruin the quick and fast approach for how I want people to read it. My final project at the end will include pictures of the 6 events I choose. That setting will likely be a Google Slides presentation and pictures will fit in more easily there. I want pictures to be present, but I don't want them in the "Acts" section, just the final project. But other than the picture issue, I don't really have any problems with the project. I am able to usually complete most of my weekly project work in class. It does not take me that long to type my blog update, or to post new acts. The research is probably what takes me the longest. This is a surprise as I had always figured that typing would be what kills me, as I am not that fast. I have also been able to improve my typing though, which I see as a beneficial side effect of this project. But all in all, everything is good, and I hope you guys come back next week to read!
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Genius hour is much more enjoyable this year. I am making good progress and I am staying on top of my blog this year. Hopefully it will keep my grades higher and further me as a student. I have always preferred projects that take a good amount of work, but not all at one time. Genius hour provides that. I can usually do most of my work in class where I am much more productive. At home, the temptations are usually to play video games with my friends, or I spend my time outside working. Since working at home is what pays off my truck payment every month, which I am responsible for. The agreement is, my parents bought me a new truck, and I work at home to pay back the money they spent on me. So at home, I am not usually a fan of doing school related things, even though I do complete my homework. So simply based on that, I have had a much better time with this project than I did last year.
Monday I did spend around 20 minutes looking online for things to go into my "Acts" section, and while I did find the 3 I needed, I had to go to 3 separate websites for each. This could become problematic in the future when needing to find 3 separate events for fill the space. For now, the process is moving on fairly swiftly an without much interruption or issues, but I have a feeling that will eventually change, as it always does. Unforeseen problems always arise within a project and this semester long assignment will probably be no different. I have also been keeping up with my google doc containing my favorite act of kindness from every other week, which means after I update this weeks, I will have two acts in there to be used for the final presentation. Hopefully, I will be able to continue this project in a timely manner and complete it all on time by the due date. See you guys next week. Week 3 already. This project is going by much faster than last year. Some things are different for me this week as compared to last week. I'm having to spend more time now to find different acts of kindness than I did last week. Last week and the week before, I was able to use the same website to find all the acts, but now I've used up most of the good stories on the site and I'm having to branch out to different areas.
It takes me a little more time now. I have to spend up more free time finding the different stories I want to use. I can only imagine that this will increase the farther I get into the project. With the more weeks that pass, I'll end up exhausting my resources and I might have to end up using some stories that are less than exciting. As long as I can mix one boring story in with two good ones each week, I should be fine. I don't want my page to become repetitive and boring because then people will not want to view it, and my positive message will not be able to be spread. If I end up using a boring story, then I have a plan to deal with that. I'll put an interesting story first in the "Acts" section, followed by the more dull one, and then finish it off with another exciting one. I will do this to grab the readers attention, as well as finish on a cool story. I will leave the boring stuff for the middle and keep the beginning and ending fresh and exciting. I haven't been able to update this weeks "Acts" section yet, so you'll have to check back later in the week when I'm able to find some good stories to share with the world. Now that I have changed my process to include acts of kindness from the past few years instead of just week by week acts, as they are very hard to find newly updated news sources containing these articles. I can do plenty more now as it is much easier to find good acts that actually make me feel good about them. I've noticed that it is much easier to write a more effective blog post as well as on my "Acts" section.
I have noticed that it does take me a lot longer to find random acts of kindness than I thought. I figured it would only take around 30 minutes to an hour to find the content necessary and then maybe 20 minutes to type them onto my page. The typing part is true, it doesn't take long at all to add them in, but finding the articles necessary to fill in the information takes upwards of an hour and a half. Once you find the information, the process moves along quickly, but getting to that point is difficult. I have found a website that contains a long list of recent acts of kindness around the world that I can reference and pull my favorite acts from to fill my page. Not all the acts have enough content, or a powerful enough message of unification, for me to consider. My first week of acts did come from that page however, and so will this week's. But after that, the resource will have probably been used dry, as most of the other articles will no suffice for my page. Hopefully, I am able to find other pages that include lists of acts, as it makes it much easier to find a litany of great content, without having to spend much time, as I have other classes with homework to attend to as well. The changing of the process has made this project much more enjoyable and I hope it makes it easier for others to read, with it all being from the same source per week. If you haven't already, check up on my "Acts" section of my page to read the most recent updates to my project listing random acts of kindness done by mankind. |
AuthorMy name is Max Sellers and I am a student at Davie County High School. I want to spread a positive message to the world about the kindness of humans. Archives
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