My work on MYP Computer Technology – Grade 8

Discuss strengths and weaknesses of your Digital Portfolio. 

My strengths in my digital portfolio was that I was able to put a lot of effort in it at the end and that once I got started with my first page, the rest of the pages were quite easy.

My one of my weaknesses in my digital portfolio is that making the links was very complicated because I had to make a link for a lot of things.

Discuss the impact this portfolio could have on your friends and family.

An impact that my family might have with my portfolio is that they would be proud that I am able to work HTML and Dreamweaver, with that my family could be quite proud.

Discuss the strength and weaknesses of your general performance during the year. What did you do well? What could you have done better? 

This year, I had some strengths, one of them was that I am now able to use a lot of different tools in Photoshop and Dreamweaver. I am also able to use HTML. My biggest weakness was that this year I was very distracted and did not focus well on my work.

Write a reflection about your use of the Design Cycle when doing your work (researching, designing, planning, and creating.)

This year I used the Design Cycle for every task this year. I didn't quite do it very organized but I was able to go through every step somehow.

Express your thoughts/feelings during and after you've completed the Design Cycle.

After completing my design cycle it felt nice knowing that doing step by step is quite easy and makes everything make a lot of sense.

Express your thoughts and/or feelings after you’ve completed the MYP Computer Technology Grade 8 course.

After completing my grade 8 course I feel that I am now able to be more creative when it comes to editing with Photoshop and I am also able to create a website using Dreamweaver. I am quite proud of myself, but I think I could have done better in my work class.

Reflection - IB Learner Profile

IB Learner Profile

1. For task 8 we created new posters for the IB learner profile. It was a bit complicated since it was hard to find pictures that describe the word and then find synonyms of the word.
2. To begin with I had to look for the pictures, after I edited them with Photoshop to the way I wanted them. After doing that I started creating the poster, I had to find other ways to say each word of the IB Learner Profile. At the end my poster had a picture showing the word with two other words that describe the word.
3. Next time I think I could have taken the pictures myself, also maybe next time I could do it with a partner so that I can divide the work and it is much easier to complete the task on time without having to hurry at night.
4. My suggestion for the future is to take the pictures yourself as well as trying to make them the same size so that everything is very similar. Another suggestion is that you try and make the pictures have a good resolution because if your pictures don’t have good quality then they will be hard to get in all kind of different size.

Exploring Photoshop

Reflection – Photoshop

1. For task 7 we had to ‘experiment’ with Photoshop. I knew how to use it before but didn’t have a lot of experience in it, now that I know some other tools I seem to enjoy Photoshop much more.

2. I understand Photoshop much better now and I feel that I can do harder tasks now. I didn’t quite enjoy a lot of the activities because some of them were confusing and some of the others were complicated. I know I could have done much better but I wasn’t encouraged in it and I kept getting distracted.

3. Photoshop can help a lot in the production of a website because in a website you need to edit some pictures at times or also to make everything more ‘fun’ for the website.

4. Photoshop can help me a lot to create my digital portfolio because I will need some pictures, and editing them with Photoshop will work, also it will help me to make cool backgrounds.