December 2-8

What I Did This Week

I am happy to say that the Progress Exhibition went fine. There were not too many hiccups in my presentation (other than the fact that I only had four calendar pages and four picture pages done). However, my goal is to finish all the pages, both calendar and picture pages, by the end of the Christmas break. To be able to accomplish this, I need to really work on the pages and manage my time well so that I will not become stressed out. This week, I created the May calendar and picture pages; the topic being Plant Conservation. Screenshots of the pages are below.

Difficulties Faced

As always, there is other work to be done besides my Personal Project. However, this was not my biggest problem. My biggest problem was not having enough information from the website I cited in my official bibliography. There was enough information about conserving plants for the description box at the bottom of the May picture page, but not for the tip part. The website itself that I cited was quite informative, but the tips it gave to help conserve plants were already some of the tips used in my other calendar pages.

How I Solved the Challenges/What I Learned

As the challenge was to find a tip for the May picture page that was different from all the other topics in my calendar, I tried to think of easy alternatives to conserve plants. What I thought of was telling my audience to plant a miniature garden in their backyard or even just plant a seed in a pot and let it grow. I thought it was okay, but my dad read it and told me that it did not make any sense and to tell the audience to use less paper instead, which helps conserve plants because paper is made from plants.

What I learned this week was that Adobe Indesign has a preview mode. All this time, when I wanted to see what the page would look like without all the gridlines, I had to create a .jpeg image that was a ridiculously large file and delete it afterwards so it would not waste my laptop’s storage space. Now that I can preview the image without going through all that extra trouble of creating a .jpeg, it is so much easier to see whether the page looks good.