When I first heard that Media Literacy was my first wheel class, I was excited. My brother had had the same class two years ago, and he made a commercial about a boki bottle.
A commercial about a bottle?... Sounds awesome! I thought.
When we finally gathered up in the MSLC (the Middle School Learning Commons), Mr. Mongardi, our teacher for the class, explained what we were going to do in the course of the first trimester. He said that we were each going to pick a project to do and spend 13 weeks working on it. The project could be anything. After that we brainstormed a lot of ideas. Some were just plain outrageous, for example, an egg costume. Obviously, there was going to be a catch to it. It was that each idea was supposed to be-
- Creative.
- Helpful.
I was pretty nervous after that. I hadn’t even come up with a single idea. Of course, I wasn’t the only one. Recognizing our failure at coming up with ideas, Mr. Mongardi showed us a bunch of inspirational videos and slideshows. He even made a survey in which he asked us what we’re interested in, what we do when we’re bored, etc. After all that, I finally came up with two ideas; make a comic book or make a video game. I even considered creating a comic book and a video game mashed together. Coming up with those ideas pretty much washed away all my worries.
The class after that one, we were instructed to customize our blog, the one I’m posting in right now. He also showed us how to put in gadgets (my favorite one is Sally the Sheep.) Finally, we got to some actual work, which is writing a blog post. And that’s where I am now. I’m very excited about creating my project and I hope you will follow my work. That's all there is for now, come back next time for Project X Part 2!
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| Image Credit: Lindsay Kolowich |
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