Organizational Skills
I
worked mostly on the Plan phase this week: the Personal Project timeline and
the research. For the timeline, I put it all into one document on my computer
so that it will not be messy and unorganized. As for the research, I made a
list of possible websites I could use as sources of information about the
various environmental issues I will address in my calendar. This list is in my
notebook, but when I bookmarked the websites I made a folder so that the
websites will not be strewn about, making the list of bookmarks disorderly.
Communication
I
talked to a few of my friends to see how they are doing, Personal Project-wise,
and to see if I am doing things the right way or not. I also asked some friends
about setting up an interview with their family members or family friends that
would know about environmental issues and is trying to minimize the problems. I
did not communicate with my dad much regarding the Personal Project this week
because he had to work a bit harder than usual and this took up a lot of his
spare time. Then again, I did not need to talk to many people since this week’s
work was mostly comprised of research and working on the timeline.
Information Literacy
I realized when working on my
timeline this week that this year, for my Personal Project, I will have to do a
lot more work this coming school year than I thought I would have to do. Also,
(my dad suggested that I visit the website of CIFOR, Center for International
Forestry Research, to glean information about the topic of plant conservation
for my calendar. I was unable to find any data that was relevant to the topic)
I learned that not every website I look at will yield useful information that I
can use for my calendar. Similarly, a lot of websites will yield useful information as long as one types the right
keyword(s) into the search engine. Plus, after reading through the Reliability
of Sources Grid in the Personal Project Guide, I learned about the significance
of reliable sources. Before this, I considered most things people told me or
things that I read on the internet to be true. I never checked who wrote it,
where it came from, or the quality of the data. Now I know to check the
dependability of the information I learn before I believe it.
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