The Personal Project

Process journal checkYou will need your PJ,your PC/mac &

your downloaded Student Guide

Look at each of the following slides while you look through your process journal.

Respond in written form (notes, lists....) to each of them

Which of these Approaches to Learning have you used so far?

How have you used them?

Thinking & reflecting skills Communicating verbally, in written

form Retrieving, selecting information Evaluating sources Acknowledging academic honesty Collaborating (1st meetings with

supervisor) Working independently

Have you decided on your Area of Interaction?

Idea/ inquiry:

Approaches to Learning

Human Ingenuity

Environments

Community & Service

Health & Social Education

If you have you chosen Community & Service as your context read on…

C&S learning expectations:

Making a contribution to the community

Helping others & realising consequences of action

Acting responsibly

Can you provide a rational for your choice based on the above?

If you have you chosen Environments as your context read on…

Environments learning expectations:

How our actions affect environments

Our responsibilities to the environment

Can you provide a rational for your choice based on the above?

If you have you chosen Human Ingenuity as your context read

on…

HI learning expectations:

What is created, invented, done

The impact of what is created

Can you provide a rational for your choice based on the above?

If you have you chosen Health & Social Education as your context

read on…

H & Social Ed learning expectations:

How you act, how you think, its impact(s)

How you look after yourself

How you make the correct decisions

Can you provide a rational for your choice based on the above?

Objective/ criterion A: use the process journal

demonstrate organizational skills through time and self-management

communicate and collaborate with the supervisor… Have you met with your supervisor?

demonstrate information literacy, thinking and reflection

A: What have you got in your Process Journal so far? You should have...

Brainstorming 1° ideas – lists, mappings, notes, sketches, cut outs...

Pages from PP StudentGuide:1. criteria/objectives tick lists ( A and B for now)2. activities using pages

Areas of Interaction pages Approaches to Learning pages Recorded meetings with supervisor – log sheets 1° resources: expert ideas, journal/ mag cuttings,

images site info (ALL cited)

Objective B: Define the goal

identify and explain a topic based on personal interest

justify one focus area of interaction as a context for the project

outline a clear, achievable, challenging goal

create specifications that will be used to evaluate the project’s outcome/product.

Have you created your specifications?

This is a list of everything you need to do/ find/ see/ meet/ learn..... in order to achieve the goal

You will use these specifications to self-assess your goal later in the process - E: achieve the goal

Have you done this? If not, do so!

Have you created your specifications?

What do I want my outcome or product to look/ be like?

What will I need to use/ collect such as materials?

What techniques/ skills do I need? May I need to learn more or refine what I can

already do? What type of information do I need to

include? Which experts can help me? How can I show/ present my information? What else do I need: visual or audio? What is my purpose and who is my audience?