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Coast Salish Art Reflection

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  • How has your awareness of Coast Salish Art in our community changed? Be specific and give at least one example.

This Coast Salish art assignment has taught me how there’s lots of details that go into these indigenous art pieces unique to how the artists portrays it. I really like the way Coast Salish art uses unique shapes with meaning to give the viewer an understanding of the art piece and/or animal. Overall I really enjoyed creating my hummingbird art piece and would like to learn more in the future.

 

 

Take Your Kid to Work Day

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My Take your kid to work day summary:

For Take Your Kid to Work Day, I decided to go to Hillcrest Middle School, with my old teacher Poth. In the morning at Hillcrest I signed in as a Guest and met up with Poth as well as a few other students from Charles Best go to his class. When we got into his class, I realized that he had switched from a Class Teacher to an Explorations Teacher. And is now teaching a Ceramic unit in Art class. I got to take a look at most of these projects and was impressed by how detailed and unique they were. To start the day, Poth got a few projects out of the kiln, placed their ceramic bowls in sorted spots for each class around the room, and let me help as well. He then started to prepare a lesson for a small art magazine collage, where we both went through material for each class to use. When we were done, we had lots of extra time to take a break and get ready for the day. Throughout the middle of the day, our first 2 classes got a demonstration on some main steps of blending, and putting a collage together. But after lunch, Poth said we could teach a lesson, and we took the offer. When it was my turn to teach, I again, went over the same instructions as Poth did and had some fun with it. Throughout the end of the day, most of the kids were tired, but still loud. Overall I had a pretty good time, as Poth is a great teacher and went over how he does his job the best he could.

 

2.What about the environment would motivate you to wake up every day to attend work? Why?

Something that would motivate me to come to work would be doing ceramic art. I really like to work with ceramics because I can be creative and can build anything I want with no limits. 

Another reason that would motivate me to come to work would be how nice and welcoming the teachers are, as they all helped me get this project done. 

 

           

 

 

3.What about the work environment would discourage you from waking up every day to attend work? Why?

Something that would discourage me from coming to work would be how loud the class gets. I like to have a quiet place to work because it helps me relax and do my work. 

 

 

Woodworking 9

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Reflection Questions

  • Connecting Core Competencies

In woodwork class, we are working on a footstool that will have an image of your choice burned into the top of your project. While doing this project, I found I can create something that connects to me and use it in my daily life. Although, I decided to not burn anything onto my project, as I stained the wood and burning an image would look messy. I feel that this project gave me a better view of how to create something that has a bigger meaning behind it and could make a project feel more valuable.

  • Learning from Digital Tools:

Throughout this DL project, I found that using Copilot and Canva was a very interesting way to mix into woodworking and use it uniquely. I also found that AI was a bit confusing at times and very specific in small details while creating my image. For my image, I chose to use the Toronto Blue Jays team logo, and while creating my image I ran into a good amount of problems as AI is still not perfect and the image I chose was fairly detailed. Overall, I like the way that we were able to use AI in our project to develop helpful skills to be used in the future.

  • Application in Other Courses

In this assignment, we used AI to help us create a detailed image. Comparing this with other courses, I believe that AI can be helpful in art classes to help the artist come up with ideas, and also create small details that you may not think of. I also think that AI can be a useful study helper for classes like math, as AI can break problems down and assist you with errors you may not understand.

 

The Image I made with AI: