LHM GCE Portfolio

The Duckotomous Key The ducks we have programmed in: The code that allows you to identify the duck from the slideshow: The slideshow:  The website used for images and information: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse/taxonomy

In the summer of 2019 I spent three weeks volunteering at a sleep away camp. I taught archery with a long bow and took care of 7-15 year old during the hours I wasn't teaching. I learned so much from this experience. I took responsibility and created fun activities for the kids to keep them entertained. I really grew up during my time there. Having to take care of so many kids and help them process their emotions was eye opening. The sunset there was beautiful and I made so many wonderful memories. The sunset one night before a storm. The archery range I worked at. A target I made for the kids that I named the Quacken.

In this we unit we learned about how audio is used to spread information and stories. We listened to a podcast and discussed how they used audio in an intriguing way. For this Action Project, I did my podcast about Fred Rogers from Mister Rogers Neighborhood. I loved watching videos from Mister Rogers Neighborhood growing up and my mom grew up watching it. I got to learn more about Fred Rogers and how caring and considerate of a person he was. I liked talking to my mom and hearing a story from her childhood I find really funny. My tone is often really flat so I struggled to have more emotion and variation in my voice. Apple Lou · Mister Rogers Neighborhood podcast Time Person What is said 0:00 Fred Rogers singing It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine, could you be mine? It's a neighborly day in this beauty hood. A neighborly day for a beauty. Would you be my... 0:17 LM Fred Rogers was the host of Mr. Rogers' neighborho...

In this unit I learned to think in an entirely new perspective. I learned to ditch the constrictive views on econ I had learned. Reading Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth was an eye opener to how the world actually works. Each of her 7 chapters came with an entirely new way to think. As small groups we picked a chapter, read it, and taught it to the rest of the class. Learning this way allowed me to use my own creativity and see the creativity of my classmates in the way we presented each chapter. This AP had me thinking outside the box of what society had taught me. Money isn't more important than people. When my health was bad I found myself caring more about my inability to be a "productive member of society" rather than how much pain I was in. This AP gave me the opportunity to think about what caused that mindset.

Chatting with a bot This was the last action project for my coding class. For this action project we made a chat bot. We had to have 5 questions to ask you. I wanted to be a bit funny with my questions. I learned a lot making the bot. I learned to think differently about how to ask questions and how to write in a way that a computer and a person could understand. I really liked the creativity I was able to express in this project.  I struggled with my spelling in this project. When something is written in code there isn't spell check. That made things a lot more complicated. I wasn't quite sure how to organize some of the questions and how to create sub questions. I enjoyed making the bot and being able to add some humor to the project. Often coding seems very sterile and boring but being able to make my own questions made it a lot more interesting.