Technology
Why did I chose to be an Inquirer?
In tech this quarter I think I am more as an inquirer rather then being knowledgeable as I ask a lot of questions to my teacher, about how to do a something, such as how to wax batik, or what to do. It might be good to ask questions, but it would also be good to listen to the instructions more often, and not annoy the teacher while she is working. The main point is that asking questions is good, but asking a question about something you already ask is bad.
Reflection Criteria A 25 October 2013
This quarter in tech there were times that I felt very happy, and there times that I really felt very disappointed in myself. This quarter we have finished Criteria A, the investigation process, and made a lot of progress in our Technology project, which is currently making a promotional T-shirt for our given province in Indonesia. The province I am assigned to is Riau. As I already have visited this province once, it gave me some advantages through the project. I think that I have behaved well in Tech, ad don’t seem to annoy people, however I do need some improvement in my Tech, as my average score through this quarter is a 3 from a 6, which isn’t good. This happened because I rarely red the Criteria, and didn’t really seem to answer the questions, hopefully in quarter 2 I would get follow the criteria, and get a score that is at least better then 3.
This quarter in tech there were times that I felt very happy, and there times that I really felt very disappointed in myself. This quarter we have finished Criteria A, the investigation process, and made a lot of progress in our Technology project, which is currently making a promotional T-shirt for our given province in Indonesia. The province I am assigned to is Riau. As I already have visited this province once, it gave me some advantages through the project. I think that I have behaved well in Tech, ad don’t seem to annoy people, however I do need some improvement in my Tech, as my average score through this quarter is a 3 from a 6, which isn’t good. This happened because I rarely red the Criteria, and didn’t really seem to answer the questions, hopefully in quarter 2 I would get follow the criteria, and get a score that is at least better then 3.
Batik Waxing
This quarter we have also practiced making Batik, with a canting, and of course Batik wax. As you can see at the picture on the left is my Batik. It looks kind of messy, and I got a 3 from a 6 for it. Which is terrible, and could not be tolerated again, by me this quarter 2. I hope I could improve my Batik skills throughout quarter 2, as I need to be good in the skill, in order to create my T-shirt.
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Technology Process Journal (Newest is on Top)
T-shirt designs
The past weeks we have done a lot of progress in creating our designs, and how to create it. There were times when I felt happy, there were times I felt sad. I somehow felt kind of disappointed in myself getting a 3 out of a 6, because it might be 50% but it's by far the worst level. It was all because of my hard batik waxing, and messy during the Batik waxing process. What we did the past weeks before was creating our designs for our promotional T-shirt. We had to create 4 designs, I created 4 designs, and hopefully would achieve a better score then before. My T-shirts are all about promoting Riau. They are all colorful, unique, and kind of creative in design. Thanks to the tips I got from a research website named design council. They were also kind of complexed and not simple t-shirt designs making it kind of challenging for me. I could prove that statement wrong by practicing at home with a ink pen writing on a piece of paper. I hope that this time my brain decides to put more effort, and that I would hopefully get a good, or satisfied score for my designs.
Picture: One of my designs. Sorry the picture is currently unavailable.
Picture: One of my designs. Sorry the picture is currently unavailable.
Technology Tie Dye-Batik
A lot has changed after the last time I updated on my Weebly. For the past 3 weeks we didn't just sit on a couch and research about our province, or observe our dyed fabric. No! We actually started creating our official fabric. With 8 different pattern that we could decide how to create it. We also had the choice to trace the patterns that Ibu Lisa gave us. I used both choices. Tracing the first 2 patterns, and creating the last 6. It wasn't that hard, however I think I created to complexed patterns (Such as an airplane), that were kind of hard to trace when I was waxing. That's because the pattern was to detailed, and I kind of forgot how to wax Batik properly. Making my waxed batik look kind of messy. After a week we started to paint our patterns. As you could see on the left side is an image of my pattern fully filled with paint. It wasn't that difficult, but I think I should work more careful next time since some of the paint mixed and made it kind of messy. Overall I think it is a success, and that I feel satisfied. Some improvements I want to improve are to improve in quality, speed, effort, and planning.
Picture: My Batik patterns fully filled with paint.
Picture: My Batik patterns fully filled with paint.
Technology Dyeing
This week in Technology class we began practicing dyeing our practice fabric. It was not that hard and was quite fun. It didn't take long for the whole class to finish this activity since it wasn't difficult for us and was an easy process. The process was to dip the fabric in the Naptol , then in Garam and then boil it in the hot water to let the wax peal of.
A thing I want to improve better next time is to place the way more neatly on the pattern so that it would look better after the dyeing process. My score was a 4 out of a 6 so I am quite satisfied.
Me standing with my dyed fabric
A thing I want to improve better next time is to place the way more neatly on the pattern so that it would look better after the dyeing process. My score was a 4 out of a 6 so I am quite satisfied.
Me standing with my dyed fabric
Technology (Newest at top)
1. When I look at the design Wira, Prem and I made it looks quite sloppy but also good and colourful. Though improvements need to be made I am quite happy of our work. Hopefully next time we should work less sloppy and put more efforts into our work.
2. We did have a large variety of design choices but only one could be applied. This step also took the longest since we changed the designs nearly every minute. However at the end we came up with one design that we used to create our shirt. We choose it because it looked colourful and stylish.
3. Things we could maintain for next time is to be creative in designs, even though we didn’t really show our creativity this might be one thing we could apply for next time.
4. If we had another chance in the process we should work faster on the design as that took quite some time in the process. Also when we get another chance to create the T-shirt we would try to tie-dye it in a better way and less sloppy way so that the t-shirt looks neater and less sloppier. Also we should use blue in place of green since that colour matches more with red and orange.
2. We did have a large variety of design choices but only one could be applied. This step also took the longest since we changed the designs nearly every minute. However at the end we came up with one design that we used to create our shirt. We choose it because it looked colourful and stylish.
3. Things we could maintain for next time is to be creative in designs, even though we didn’t really show our creativity this might be one thing we could apply for next time.
4. If we had another chance in the process we should work faster on the design as that took quite some time in the process. Also when we get another chance to create the T-shirt we would try to tie-dye it in a better way and less sloppy way so that the t-shirt looks neater and less sloppier. Also we should use blue in place of green since that colour matches more with red and orange.