This is the third week of Genius Hour, and I have talked to the other people in my class and am starting to feel like I am falling behind and have talked to Mr.Barker about it, but this project is just now starting to stress me out. However I did start adding things to my website, I added the Home page and made the buttons. Also, I did get the guitar on Friday but did not have any time to practice because of the Football game since I am in the marching band. So next week on Wednesday I will start to learn guitar.
So far there is nothing to report because this week I have just been so busy with school and all of my homework piling up that that the only time that I have been able to work on my website is on Wednesday during class. I did decide on the song I will be learning tho, I have decided on the song “Invisible String” by Taylor Swift. So, I added that song to my homepage with a link to the song on Spotify, because we do not have any access to YouTube on our computers. Also, because the song I am playing is by Taylor Swift, I have decided to have my website be ‘Folklore’ themed because Folklore is the album the song is from. Of course, Taylor Swift won’t be the main focus of the website, and I will make sure it is subtle. However, I figure using pictures from the album and of the recording process as backgrounds and as pictures around the ‘Home’ and ‘About’ would be a good idea and visually appealing.
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During this week of Genius Hour, I looked over the list of websites and found one similar to what I am doing, and took the idea of four pages on mine. The Home page, which has links to my results, Blogs, and the song I will be doing (When I decide). There is also an About page, which has my plans for each week and why I have decided to do this project. The third page will be a Blog page where I will post all of my updates for each week. The last page will be a Results page, it will have a link to the song I am trying to learn and it will also have the video of me playing the song, along with videos of my progress learning the song, and videos of me learning different scales, and of course, bloopers.
That is the plan for every one of the pages, but I have not done anything to my website other than create the pages. I am planning on doing that next week because I have not got the guitar yet from my friend. So next week, I will hopefully get the guitar from my friend and start playing the guitar. I will also pick a song and find a tutorial. This is the first week of genius hour and I am planning on learning the guitar, starting with a song that I am deciding right now. I am in between a few songs and I will decide which one to learn based on their difficulty level. This Wednesday is the first official day of Genius Hour so I will spend this week planning my project.
I will be planning the dates I need to have things learned by, when I will be starting on the presentation, how I will be documenting my progress, and when I will be writing my blogs. I cannot start on my project until I get a guitar because I do not have one myself but I am borrowing one from a friend. I have already talked to my band teacher who has agreed to let me use the practice rooms during genius hour days each week so it seems like everything is going to go well. Now all I need to do is find my sources for learning the guitar, I have a book that teaches me different chords and guitar basics, and as for the song that I am learning I will most likely be using YouTube. There is not a lot to update on this week because I don’t have the guitar yet but I have already started looking at the website builder and have been thinking of names for my website. |
Why Blog?By blogging my process I am showing myself and others how I have improved throughout this 12 week project by saying how I feel, if I have any setbacks, and showing my final product at the end. |