Summarize the purpose of your Genius Hour project in 140 characters.
The purpose of my Genius Hour is to help incoming college freshman to have good organizational and study habits for their first college year. These tips will hopefully help college students be less stressful.
Explain the process of your Genius Hour project. Be reflective. Be contemplative. Explain and describe your journey. (No Less Than Three FULL Paragraphs.)
The process of starting my Genius Hour was to make a weebly page, which I already had because last semester we made one for a previous Genius Hour. However Maya Henrickson and I decided to combined our Genius Hours together since they are all related to college. Maya and I started decorating our Weebly page, so people who do view our blog and page will not be bored or uninterested. Along with decorating our page, we also had to do four blogs that reflected our progress we have made so far on our Genius Hour Page.
Next in the process would be how to actually get this information that we have been working on, out to the public so that it could be made usefully. Maya and I then decided that the best way to get such information out would be through our school. We went to the Guidance Office and asked if they would put a link to our Weebly page on the Guidance Office Home Page. Before posting the link to our Weebly Page our guidance counselor had to approve of the page to make sure it was useful.
Hopefully with the whole semester Maya and I have spent on this Genius Hour Page will actually help incoming college freshman out. To fully finish the process of our Genius Hour Maya and I hope that these study tips will help students get better grades, organization tips create less stress, and dorm tips help create a more home like atmosphere to the college students. With these three things actually being accomplished and people learning them from our page, hopefully such people will tell people about our page and spread the word. This will full full the point in our Genius Hour we worked so hard on.
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.)
Like I said before, Maya and I are going to share our Genius Hour Page through the Guidance Office at our school. Not only is this accessible to the teachers at college, but the information on our weebly page can be shown to the seniors every year so they can gain this knowledge and use it when they plan on going to college. Not only can the incoming seniors use this information, overall anyone in high school or college can use this information to help them on a test or staying organized in school.
I hope that the results will be good. Some of this is very basic information that people may already know, but there is also information on Maya and my Genius Hour page that could be new and potentially help someone in school. For example, someone who is studying just by looking at their notes from their teacher may be falling, but if they change the way they are studying by making flashcards, or rewriting their notes they could potentially get a good grade. Which these tips that I just stated are found on the weebly page.
If you could do anything different with your Genius Hour project what would you do differently and why? (No less than two full paragraphs.)
One thing that I would do different is actually using the time given on to use in class to work on my Genius Hour page. The page is done very well but I think actually using the time given to my full ability would probably showed better results in my work. Another thing that links to using the time would be to have more motivation in this project. I now realize that the concept of Genius Hour is not only to benefit oneself but to also benefit others and realizing this a little sooner and thinking about it would of made me more motivated.
Lastly another thing I would of done differently was worked with Maya on our Genius Hour from the beginning of the semester and not just towards the end of the semester. Her and I working together a little sooner would of helped our Genius Hour really peak and help people a little more. Overall, these are minor things that I would of done differently and though I know I could of put more motivation into this project I personally think it turned out good.
Reflect on what you did well during this Genius Hour process? Note your successes and accomplishments. (No less than two full paragraphs.)
To begin with, Genius Hour was nothing new considering that the whole class did this last year. However, we had to either stick with the same topic from last semester or pick a new one. I did not find very much interest in my last topic so I decided to change it to study and organizational tips for college. With the new topic I picked, we had to do four blog post that really showed how well we were working on our Genius Hour page.
Not only did I take the time to answer the blogs, Maya and I successfully put our Genius Hour pages together since both of our topics related to college. Once Maya and I get our guidance counselor to officially post our weebly page on the school page, that will be a major accomplishment. Our weebly page will help new freshman college with study tips and will be
Include any videos, pictures, presentations, or artifacts that will document your journey.
The purpose of my Genius Hour is to help incoming college freshman to have good organizational and study habits for their first college year. These tips will hopefully help college students be less stressful.
Explain the process of your Genius Hour project. Be reflective. Be contemplative. Explain and describe your journey. (No Less Than Three FULL Paragraphs.)
The process of starting my Genius Hour was to make a weebly page, which I already had because last semester we made one for a previous Genius Hour. However Maya Henrickson and I decided to combined our Genius Hours together since they are all related to college. Maya and I started decorating our Weebly page, so people who do view our blog and page will not be bored or uninterested. Along with decorating our page, we also had to do four blogs that reflected our progress we have made so far on our Genius Hour Page.
Next in the process would be how to actually get this information that we have been working on, out to the public so that it could be made usefully. Maya and I then decided that the best way to get such information out would be through our school. We went to the Guidance Office and asked if they would put a link to our Weebly page on the Guidance Office Home Page. Before posting the link to our Weebly Page our guidance counselor had to approve of the page to make sure it was useful.
Hopefully with the whole semester Maya and I have spent on this Genius Hour Page will actually help incoming college freshman out. To fully finish the process of our Genius Hour Maya and I hope that these study tips will help students get better grades, organization tips create less stress, and dorm tips help create a more home like atmosphere to the college students. With these three things actually being accomplished and people learning them from our page, hopefully such people will tell people about our page and spread the word. This will full full the point in our Genius Hour we worked so hard on.
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.)
Like I said before, Maya and I are going to share our Genius Hour Page through the Guidance Office at our school. Not only is this accessible to the teachers at college, but the information on our weebly page can be shown to the seniors every year so they can gain this knowledge and use it when they plan on going to college. Not only can the incoming seniors use this information, overall anyone in high school or college can use this information to help them on a test or staying organized in school.
I hope that the results will be good. Some of this is very basic information that people may already know, but there is also information on Maya and my Genius Hour page that could be new and potentially help someone in school. For example, someone who is studying just by looking at their notes from their teacher may be falling, but if they change the way they are studying by making flashcards, or rewriting their notes they could potentially get a good grade. Which these tips that I just stated are found on the weebly page.
If you could do anything different with your Genius Hour project what would you do differently and why? (No less than two full paragraphs.)
One thing that I would do different is actually using the time given on to use in class to work on my Genius Hour page. The page is done very well but I think actually using the time given to my full ability would probably showed better results in my work. Another thing that links to using the time would be to have more motivation in this project. I now realize that the concept of Genius Hour is not only to benefit oneself but to also benefit others and realizing this a little sooner and thinking about it would of made me more motivated.
Lastly another thing I would of done differently was worked with Maya on our Genius Hour from the beginning of the semester and not just towards the end of the semester. Her and I working together a little sooner would of helped our Genius Hour really peak and help people a little more. Overall, these are minor things that I would of done differently and though I know I could of put more motivation into this project I personally think it turned out good.
Reflect on what you did well during this Genius Hour process? Note your successes and accomplishments. (No less than two full paragraphs.)
To begin with, Genius Hour was nothing new considering that the whole class did this last year. However, we had to either stick with the same topic from last semester or pick a new one. I did not find very much interest in my last topic so I decided to change it to study and organizational tips for college. With the new topic I picked, we had to do four blog post that really showed how well we were working on our Genius Hour page.
Not only did I take the time to answer the blogs, Maya and I successfully put our Genius Hour pages together since both of our topics related to college. Once Maya and I get our guidance counselor to officially post our weebly page on the school page, that will be a major accomplishment. Our weebly page will help new freshman college with study tips and will be
Include any videos, pictures, presentations, or artifacts that will document your journey.