Please consider your approach to learning within this module, and complete the table below.
💡TIP You can copy-paste this checkmark to use when completing the table below: ✔️
| | Needs Improvement (Rarely) | Developing (Sometimes) | Meets (Regularly) | Exceeds (Always) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Responsibility | | | | | | Completes work and assignments on time | | | ✔️ | | | Takes responsibility for choices and behaviour | | | ✔️ | | | Keeps commitments made to others, including teacher and peers | | | ✔️ | | | Organization | | | | | | Prepared and ready for class | | | ✔️ | | | Notebook neat, tools accessible | | ✔️ | | | | Looks after personal belongings | | | ✔️ | | | Makes efficient use of time, at school and at home | | | ✔️ | | | Independent Work | | | | | | Works at a steady pace (with appropriate noise level) | | ✔️ | | | | Not distracted; remains focused | | | | ✔️ | | Completes tasks without distracting others | | ✔️ | | | | Completes tasks with minimal teacher assistance | | | ✔️ | | | Collaboration | | | | | | Takes turns and cooperates | | | ✔️ | | | Contributes ideas and information | | | | ✔️ | | Can be a leader and a participant | | ✔️ | | | | Listens to and values the ideas of others | | | ✔️ | | | Initiative | | | | | | Takes risks to explore or discuss ideas | | ✔️ | | | | Shows curiousity and interest in learning | | | ✔️ | | | Approaches new and/or unfamiliar tasks with a positive attitude | | | ✔️ | | | Advocates for personal learning needs, in an appropriate manner | | ✔️ | | | | Self-Regulation | | | | | | Sets own goals for learning and achievement | | | | ✔️ | | Recognizes what needs to be done | | | ✔️ | | | Tries hard and makes a real effort when work gets difficult | | | ✔️ | | | Asks for help when needed | | ✔️ | | |
Please add a brief response below, related to your learning skills.
I have been pretty responsible in this class in this module. Most of the time I’ve been able to keep up with assigned exercises and tasks, although on occasion I’ve lagged a bit on completing portfolio entries. One thing I’d like to improve on is arriving with my laptop charged! I often forget to do this overnight and then I have to find a seat in our class near a power outlet. I tend to get a bit excited once I’ve completed something with my own work, and then I want to show my friends what I’ve done. I know this can be distracting, so I’m going to work on being more observant and making a real effort to not be a distraction to people around me. I collaborate well but not as well as I could; I need to make space for other people to contribute their ideas. I like to lead but I need to listen more to other people’s ideas.
Summarize how you have made further progress against course learning goals.
I can plan for and describe the steps needed to solve a given task in a variety of ways.
I made my best plan plan for my T-shirt Shadow Prints task. I finally realized (after watching my friends) that the plan I’d made for the solo image analysis task wasn’t detailed enough. I did a lot of trial-and-error coding for that solo image analysis task, and it got really tedious. For the T-shirt task, because I had a good plan, I was able to finish my code much faster – I had no trouble meeting the Tuesday at 10 PM deadline.
I can explain the concepts of sequence, selection, and repeating events and apply them in code to obtain desired results.
Sequence (order of steps in my code) was shown over and over again. Remember that problem I had with my Name Plate task early on? After you showed me how changing code at the top of a program impacts everything after that, the concept “clicked” for me. I made good use of sequence by filling in the background color for the building image I was attempting to reproduce in my solo Image Analysis task first - then drawing the windows on top of the background.
We haven’t learned selection statements yet, so I can’t write about that here.
As for repeating events, I used loops everywhere in my code in this thread! Look at the loops I used to draw the windows in my Solo Image analysis task! I also made use of loops in my T-shirt Shadow prints task to draw the stars in the background of the night sky in my image.