Animal Farm Campaign Project

The core competency that I have chosen is Creative Thinking. I chose the is competency because while doing this project it required a lot of different ideas and thinking bit more out of the box. One prompt that I thought we really used was, “I can ask open-ended questions and gather information.” I believed we used this when we were loading up on tons of dirt for all the different animals. I think this because we were asking deep questions about what the animals were doing during the book to help us find where the quotes and evidence was. I also chose this prompt because we then went through the book and as a group were able the get all the information needed so we could bring down the other groups, and we found all the direct quotes and page numbers too. The next prompt that I chose to use was “I can experiment with different ways of doing things”. I chose this one because not everything in this project is something I am hugely comfortable with, especially the video, but then I pushed through that and I became one of the main people working on the video part of the project. I also was very out of my comfort zone with the drawings they did for the project because I have never been a very good drawer and I tried to help them out but their was not much I could do.

Another way I have shown that we used the core competency Creative Thinking is, “I can make my ideas work or I change what I am doing”. With the video the original idea was very different from what we were actually planning on doing, but when we realized that what we wanted to do wouldn’t work we tried again with a new idea until we were left with the video we have now, which was even then still very difficult to make.  We also had to “build on others’ ideas and add new ideas of my own, or combine other people’s ideas in”, which we used especially when making the video script. I was the person who wrote the original script for the video we made, but then I brought it to school, Christine, Caramel, and Carolyn all spent time looking over and reading the  script to change what they was weird, not needed, or thought lacked a few words. In this project, ” I build the skills I need to make my ideas work, and usually succeed, even if it takes a few tries”. I demonstrated this when making the video for the promotional video, because I true fully didn’t really know how to use iMovie to even make a video, but then I messed around with iMovie for a bit and was able to build the skills I need and still succeeded in making a video that contained all the information that we needed.

Something our group definitely could have worked on was communication. We were not able to figure out what we wanted to do on the Friday very well, this meant that we were then not doing very much over the weekend and ended up rushing to finish it on the Monday and Tuesday. Though we did create a group chat, there was only so much you could talk and plan on there and we mostly just had to work with what we thought we all agreed on, on the Friday. This meant that there was quite a lot of disorganization happening within our group because we could not figure out how to finish everything we needed to in decent time. Though we were able to finish the project and get good results it took a lot of effort to get there and a couple flex and lunch meetings to finish everything off. It did not help that no one in our group was very “commanding” and most of the time we just went with flow of what was happening in the project and did not voice our opinions and much as we probably should have. We would have been better organized if we had had more opinions and ideas shared and now that I look back I wish we could have pushed ourselves to speak our mind a bit more.