PVU GCE Portfolio

For this elective term, I have been taking a STEAM course called Game Changers. In this elective course, we have been learning about games and game design. Some of these games include tabletop games like a board, dice, and card games. We learned about game creation and how to innovate and invent our own games. We were also able to make our own tabletop games. One of our field experiences was to go to CHITAG (Chicago Toy and Game Fair) and present our game. While we were there we were able to get lots of feedback for how to make our games better. I was on of the lucky ones who also got an interview with a couple of different television companies. We learned about what an elevator pitch was and how it’s so useful when selling your idea. For this Action Project, we were supposed to produce our final version of our games. My game is complete but not perfect. I had a really hard time creating the physical components for my project, but I overcame it with just pushing through. I had a sign

For this elective term, I have been taking a STEAM course called Game Changers. In this elective course, we have been learning about games and game design. Some of these games include tabletop games like a board, dice, and card games. We learned about game creation and how to innovate and invent our own games. Throughout learning how to create games, we played multiple different types of games. One of the reasons we played games was to figure how each game worked. We also had a Skype interview with Jay Little, the creator of many popular role-playing games such as Edge Of The Empire Roleplaying Game. Jay gave us very insightful information about the game including design, elevator pitch, and marketing strategies. For this Action Project, we are recommending games to some kind of social program. I was proud of the games that I chose. It was hard for me to figure out how to write it down, but I overcame it by just coming up with mad-libs like checklists. I simply made a checklist that I

In my class Digital Media, in my Elective Term, we are learning about how to publish a blog post. We are learning about the proper ways to publish slide shows and projects. We took a quiz to test our knowledge about blogging. I have created a slide show about the basics of Fencing. I hope you enjoy!

In my final unit of my STEAM class Population, we discussed how life expectancy can change over time. We learned about calculating and predicting population growth. Our class learned a lot about survivorship curves, and to showcase our knowledge we went the OakWood Cemetery to collect data.  We then used that data to create our own survivorship graph. We were instructed to come up with an Action Project that compared the human population to a self-chosen animal. I chose the Wood Bison. I thought the would Bison was a cool animal, and with my limited time, I had easily accessible data for Wood Bison. I thought the hardest part of this Action Project was to shoot the video. I have genuinely had a hard time filming anything that I am in. I overcame this by just pushing through my weakness to reach the top. I am overall happy with how it turned out. Ansgar Walk. (February 26, 2006) Wood Bison  Ansgar Walk. (February 26, 2006) Wood Bison Year Bison Pop Human P

For my final unit, Hero's, in my Humanities class Stories, we learned about heroes and what makes someone a hero. We also learned about the seventeen monomyths. Monomyths are a way to characterize a hero’s journey. Heroes are very opinion based because everyone has their own opinions. Our class took a field experience to the Stony Island Arts Bank. We learned about Theaster Gates , and what makes him a hero to some. For my Action Project, I worked with a partner to choose two people that we thought were heroes. We were supposed to choose one fictional hero and one non-fictional hero. My partner ALA and I chose Jesse Owens, Olympic Champion, and Luke Skywalker from Star Wars. At first, I thought it would not work, but as I went on, I researched my heroes and then everything made more sense. We were supposed to find connections in their lives. Luke Skywalker worked perfectly to the seventeen monomyths we learned about. George Lucas wrote Star Wars basing everyone off of the monomyth

In my second united of Stories, we studied fables and allegories. We looked at various different types of fables and discussed them in length. Later in our unit, we watched a movie called Endgame by Samuel Beckett. We observed which characters from the play were dynamic, static, flat, protagonist, antagonist, and that shared a lesson. My favorite part of this unit was analyzing fables that I never really got the point of. I did not like creating my own because I am particularly bad at creating stories. Once upon a time, there was a forest where a pack of dogs lived. In the forest, everything was great except the truth. There lived a pack of dogs and these dogs were amazing dogs. One day a dog was born, Brian was his name. Brian was the runt of the litter and was often mistreated. He was excluded from many activities and events that his siblings participated in. Brian felt like he needed to prove himself to his siblings, but he was too afraid to ask. Brian spent several days thinki

For my first STEAM course of my sophomore year, I am taking a class called population. In this unit, we learned about central tendencies, standard deviation, and permutation, combinations, factorials, and box & whisker plots. We also learned about genetic and heritable traits of an organism, theories, phenotypes, genotypes, natural selection, the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, and dominant and recessive traits. I thought that this AP is a really cool project, although I had some trouble researching my animals and getting their weight. I then chose three species that I thought would survive best in Russia's harsh weather conditions. The species I chose were the Husky weighing 61 pounds, the German shepherd weighing 46.5 pounds, and a Labradoodle mix weighing 39.06 pounds. I chose these three dogs because all three of them are fairly big dogs, they have long thick fur, and they can survive in cold condition climates. I think all of these animals will pass down thick fur, and big s

For my first class in Humanities of my sophomore year, I am taking a class called Stories. We learned about stories and where they came and originate from. We studied different religions and did a small group project on a certain religion. We learned about its setting and etiology. Etiology is usually referred to as the creations of a myth. I studied Yahweh with RZD , and learned about the Judaism and its etiological story. For my first Action Project for Stories we were instructed to create our own etiological story. I think my drawing for my planet “Alancha” turned out extremely well. I struggled with creating my own myth using the “Big Bang.” I overcame my struggles by sitting down and just daydreaming, and letting my imagination flow. I then came up with a story about a God who controls a planet. Enjoy! PVU. (September 2016) Alancha Chapter One... In a world far beyond one we can see there was a small planet. The planet was named after Alancha, an idolize