Technology
I chose thinkers for technology, since every time in tech class I would think deeply of my actions, and think what I must do, and decide to do. I would also usually thin what is right, and would prefer to use my time to work then discuss. However conversations do still often occur.
Technology T-shirt
This quarter in technology we have made our own t-shirt. We began in quarter 1 where in we did most of the writing, idea making, and planning for the t-shirt. In quarter 2 we starter to create our t-shirt. I began with outlining, then labeling the outline with wax, after that paint it and then boil it. I enjoyed it very much in tech class, and making the t-shirt I hope I could keep up doing the good work. I hope that I wouldn't forget my skills I have learned. The thing I want to improve next time is to batik wax my t-shirt more neatly next time since there were some spills, or certain areas didn't really look that nice. Overall I am proud that the t-shirt is a success. The images from the t-shirt are located below.
Special Thanks To:
Ibu Lisa (Guidance)
Dong Uk (Photos)
My Father, Mother, and Aunthie (Support)
Ibu Lisa (Guidance)
Dong Uk (Photos)
My Father, Mother, and Aunthie (Support)
Survey
I have surveyed each person, there are NO survey papers which I filled in myself.
The last few days were the last days of our project. This was the last step we had to do. It was to survey at least 10 people from different grades. 2 students per grade, except for students from grade 8, which we weren’t allowed to survey. At the beginning the survey went well. I managed to survey at least 6 people on Thursday, and Friday. On Monday I managed to survey some other people from other grades. On Tuesday I finally managed to finish my survey. The problem was that when I surveyed on Thursday, and Friday. A mistake I made was that I forgot we had to take a picture. So I had to do all of that on Monday to. However as I finished surveying everybody about my T-shirt, I see that the students all had different opinions. Some said it was very good, some said it was somewhat good, some said it was just right. I am happy that the feedbacks are good, and hope to make improve from their feedbacks. I think a thing I could improve next time, is to listen more carefully to the instructions. So that I had no problem taking a picture after I have surveyed someone. Also I hope that next time I start surveying the DP students first. Since they are the ones that I don’t meet in lunch time, and are the ones that are hard to survey, because I don’t meet them that often.
Self Evaluation (Criteria D)
The pictures below is my criteria D. I have honestly evaluated myself honestly, and commented on what I could improve to get a 6. I think I did well, and hope to keep it up. See below to see my overall score. What do you think? Do you agree, or disagree?
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Technology Self Evaluation on Criteria B&C
What I did well
I think I did well in Technology for criteria B&C. I am happy with my grades, and hope to keep it up. The thing I think I did well in criteria B is that I explained detailed about my designs, made 4 designs, and justified on my chosen design well. I made 4 design just incase to give me more chances of getting a higher grade. I am happy that I did 4 designs rather then 3. I am also happy that I justified, and explained my design very detailed, since that too gave me a bigger chance to get a high grade, and gave the reader clear information about my design. This information is according to the criteria. Beside that I included everything I needed, and red the criteria. Giving me guidance, and usually a clear objective on what to do I think I did well on my criteria C too since I always update my weebly after I finished some of my steps. I think I did well on my reflecting skills when making the journal. Also I think I always completely finished my journals without, any pictures missing, or parts of text. However there were still things that I should improve the next time.
Improvements
Though I got a good score, there are still thing I want to improve. Such as for criteria B, I hope next time I could start working on Criteria B earlier. Since a large percentage of my work was finished just the day before it had to be submitted. Also though it was very detailed I hope to make it a bit simpler, so that it would give more comfort for the reader. Rather than seeing a lot of words which are descriptive, but seems to look to much which make the reader kind of bored. However I hope to remain descriptive, and keep it up. For criteria C, I want to improve the way I post my journal entries. In other words I want to be stricter with myself. This is because sometimes I forgot writing a journal entry, and posts it with other entries. I hope next time I would post my entries on the days I finish the steps. Also I want to be stricter following my plan, since I didn't completely follow all my planning. Since I was sick for one day which changed a lot of my planning. Beside that there are no other things to improve, but hope to keep up the good things. Beside that I thank all my friends, family, and teachers that helped me through this process.
Overall SCORE is the PICTURE ABOVE.
I think I did well in Technology for criteria B&C. I am happy with my grades, and hope to keep it up. The thing I think I did well in criteria B is that I explained detailed about my designs, made 4 designs, and justified on my chosen design well. I made 4 design just incase to give me more chances of getting a higher grade. I am happy that I did 4 designs rather then 3. I am also happy that I justified, and explained my design very detailed, since that too gave me a bigger chance to get a high grade, and gave the reader clear information about my design. This information is according to the criteria. Beside that I included everything I needed, and red the criteria. Giving me guidance, and usually a clear objective on what to do I think I did well on my criteria C too since I always update my weebly after I finished some of my steps. I think I did well on my reflecting skills when making the journal. Also I think I always completely finished my journals without, any pictures missing, or parts of text. However there were still things that I should improve the next time.
Improvements
Though I got a good score, there are still thing I want to improve. Such as for criteria B, I hope next time I could start working on Criteria B earlier. Since a large percentage of my work was finished just the day before it had to be submitted. Also though it was very detailed I hope to make it a bit simpler, so that it would give more comfort for the reader. Rather than seeing a lot of words which are descriptive, but seems to look to much which make the reader kind of bored. However I hope to remain descriptive, and keep it up. For criteria C, I want to improve the way I post my journal entries. In other words I want to be stricter with myself. This is because sometimes I forgot writing a journal entry, and posts it with other entries. I hope next time I would post my entries on the days I finish the steps. Also I want to be stricter following my plan, since I didn't completely follow all my planning. Since I was sick for one day which changed a lot of my planning. Beside that there are no other things to improve, but hope to keep up the good things. Beside that I thank all my friends, family, and teachers that helped me through this process.
Overall SCORE is the PICTURE ABOVE.
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Week 3
Step 9
This week in technology I have completed step 9, and am finally finished with my t-shirt. I feel satisfied with my design, and thin that there were times I did well, and times I had difficulties, but overall I feel relieved that I finally completed my project. I am also happy that it looks similar to my design. However there were still some changes. Just like that the quote at the back had yellow color fill rather then blue, and that the sleeves were painted with a variety of colors rather then blue. Also some changes were that I made several small spirals for my tie dye, rather then one big spiral. Some spills also made my t-shirt look different from my design, just like that some letters/shapes didn’t really look like suppose to , because of the spills. There are no known changes beside that, and hopefully I would get a good score.
Left: Back side of T-shirt
Below: Front side of T-shirt
Left: Back side of T-shirt
Below: Front side of T-shirt
Step 8
Tie dye was the last major step I had to do before I could boil my T-shirt. There were a lot of difficulties, and it took at least 4 hours to finish it. I started of by practicing with tissue, and then start off with the T-shirt. I did it with tissue because I lost my cloth. To be honest I got some support from my parents. So I thank them for making me reach my daily goal. I hope next time I would work more independently, start earlier, and not lose my cloth. Since they all thing I should improve to make my tie dye more successful. The next thing I would do is start boiling my T-shirt.
Left: Tie dye on T-shirt
Below: Tie dye testing with tissue
Left: Tie dye on T-shirt
Below: Tie dye testing with tissue
Week 2
Step 7
Similar to step 5, step 7 was all about drying. I actually did step 5 and 7 on the same time, and after I did set 4 and 6. I first thought that it wasn't acceptable, but later on accepted that I officially also did both step 5 & 7. I dried my t-shirt just in front of the tech class, where there was sunlight, and wind. With the combination of both my T-shirt dried faster, and dried within 10-15 minutes. rather then 30, or an hour! I am happy since I all did it on Friday, and am back to my original schedule. I think all went well, and there were no complains.
(The picture is an example of how the T-shirt would of dried in Technology class)
(The picture is an example of how the T-shirt would of dried in Technology class)
Step 6
Last week I finished painting the entire front part of my T-shirt. Which gave me a gigantic advantage for my planning, time, and for the future. It completely brought me back to my original plan, and if I didn't finish it on Friday. I might have ended up in a problem. So I am happy I finished it last Friday with step 4, 5, and 7. I think I do need to improve some things such as painting the sleeves more neatly, and focus when painting since I sometimes spilled. However that was easily cleaned up with the aid of white paint.
Step 5
Step 6 was the easiest. I just had to put my T-shirt somewhere dry, and wait. Tp be honest I didn't really follow my planning as I just placed my T-shirt somewhere outside the tech class to dry. There was sunlight though which helped it dry faster. It seemed that it wasn't officially the way I wanted to do it, but somehow I just accepted it. I don't seem to have anything else that I want to improve. As there was wind to the process of drying took 15 minutes or maybe 5 rather then 30 minutes. Which gave me bonuses through my process later on.
(The picture is an example of how the T-shirt would of dried in Technology class)
(The picture is an example of how the T-shirt would of dried in Technology class)
Step 4
Last week in Technology I have completed painting my back part of my T-shirt, and started coloring the front part of my T-shirt. I did it within 1 period, and if I had never finished it then. I would have had a lot of work to do in the weekends. Thanks to the advances I made on that day placed me back to my original planning. I think I did well painting the back, as there was only 1 small spill, while the rest was colored in neatly. I also used a variety of colors making it more attractive. However I do want to improve the way I make the sleeves as it wasn't that neat, and kind of messy. A reason might be that it would be hard to hold the T-shirt at that place. I also placed a piece of a plastic board in between the sides of the T-shirt so that the paint wouldn't penetrate to the other side.
Step 3 CONTINUED
This week in technology I have seen a lot of progress in my Batik, and my overall planning. I have finished my Batik, and am ready to paint it. The Batik seemed to look way neater then usual, and seemed to be good for painting. I am kind of behind schedule, so if I finish painting today (Friday 15 November 2013) I would be on the right track. Overall I am happy with my work, and hope to improve my Batik, as there were still parts that I had difficulties tracing my Batik, but it went way better then my Batik before.
Week 1
Step 3
Throughout the process of Step 3 there have been a lot of good things that happened. One of them is that my Batik skills improved gradually, and that I finally know how to properly trace the wax on my pencil lines. Which is good, because then the T-shirt would look less messy, and it wouldn't be hard for me to paint it. I think I could improve my way of holding the T-shirt, and my focus, as there were times that I felt that I couldn't properly trace it, or that I couldn't work because I lost my focus from jokes my friends told when we were working. The good part is that there were nearly no droppings. I would like to improve this by focusing more on my batik, rather then listening to the jokes of my friend, and learning to hold the T-shirt well. The progress is going well, as I already completed the whole back of my T-shirt and already started making my front part. Next stop finishing the front part, and preparing to paint my T-shirt.
Special thanks to Ibu Lisa, for teaching me the right way of how to use a canting.
Special thanks to Ibu Lisa, for teaching me the right way of how to use a canting.
Step 2
Step 2 was not such a hard step, it was just drawing the whole outline of the front part of my T-shirt. I think I did well on this step, as I had completely followed my design, and had all the equipment for finishing this step. Things I want to improve is to bring a larger card board next time, as I had difficulties for lining some parts of my T-shirt. Also I want to improve the way I hold my T-shirt because there were times that my hand slipped, and that I had difficulties drawing the lines. Overall I am following my planning as I completed it within the 2 periods given, however it took me kind of longer to finish this T-shirt then expected. While it took less time to finish my first step.
Step 1
Step 1 was one of the easiest steps, just draw lines at the back of the T-shirt, as I had all materials needed, and since it wasn't that complex gave me a lot of advances in time, and throughout the process. At the beginning I had some difficulties, while I had less at the end, thanks to the aid of a cardboard placed inside the T-shirt. I do want to improve the way I hold my T-shirt as there were times I had difficulties drawing the line, or that I was stuck for a while. Overall this step went well, and took less time then needed. I planned for 30 minutes, and I think I finished it in 20 minutes. Which was good. I assume I am going the right track, and that I am following my plan correctly.