Month: November 2020

Teens are overwhelmed, partly because they don’t yet have the skills to manage the unprecedented amount of stuff that enters their brains each day.  – from LifeHacker.com

“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”

“You can do anything, but not everything.”

― David Allen, (GTD) Getting Things Done for Teens: Take Control of Your Life in a Distracting World

SUMMARY

• This week I worked on managing my time and making a schedule it was really hard at first but once I made a schedule now I feel more comforable.

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

The latest lesson was the overview for java script

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

You are going to learn to develop your own version of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) process in this ‘room.’

• So from the videos, I learned that your brain is for thinking of ideas not holding them, and when you hold your ideas your just wasting valuable time. Some other things I learned Is that you actually are more productive when you are in a crisis or when there is a problem the best thing you can do is to sort the things that you need to do and want to do because this helps decide what’s important and what isn’t important so if you have a couple of emails that would only take 2 minutes to reply back to all of them then get that done first but if you need to have a conversation with someone it’s best to schedule for the future ahead of time.

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

• Set a timer
• Spend 15 minutes in this ‘room’
• Rewatch David explain ‘Maps’ from 19:57 to 21:16 of the video

Examine Two GTD Maps: Basic and Detailed

1. Detailed map by guccio@文房具社 icensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
2. Basic map from BiggerPlate.com embedded below

GTD-based Trusted System

• Examine and pick a trusted system from the 4 options listed below to ‘capture’ your work
  • A trusted system is your method for managing your tasks in a way that you consistently get things done

1. Trello.com with a – GTD Template
   • We use Trello in this class to manage group projects
     • You will create a Trello account a few weeks from now regardless
     • You might want to start now
   • We start using Trello in the second semester
   • Watch Mr. Le Duc Creating a Trello Account and Add GTD Template Tutorial (3:45)
   • You can get the free Trello app at the Apple Store or Google Play
   • 
2. Your phone
3. Paper and pen or pencil
4. Examine LifeHacker.com’s GTD Resources
   • Try a To-Do List That Lives in Your Tabs

OUTSIDE (PRODUCTIVITY & THE BRAIN)

OPTIONAL EXERCISE

• Read Getting Things Done for Teens: Take Control of Your Life in a Distracting World by David Allen

STUDIO (CREATING MAPS)

CONTROL ROOM (PRODUCTION)

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

something that I learned was that ya life may be a pain and stressful and it seems like you don’t have a lot of time but in reality, it’s just you procrastinating about it and not doing something about it. For example, I was just pushing everything off and waiting until the last minute which is really bad until I started to sit down a make a schedule for what I’m going to do and it helped me a lot

WEEKLY ACTIVITY EVALUATION

• This week’s content was pretty cool.

What is Workflow?

Work•flow /ˈwərkflō/

“The sequence of industrial, administrative, or other processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion.” – lexico.com

What is a quality workflow?  How do we develop it?  Below are elements of the production cycle that most creative people move through as they create something.  First, we must identify the stages of project production. What is each stage and what are the quality checks for each stage.  Read on and find out!

Stages of Creation Development

Inspiration

How do we find ideas to develop?

• Tools such as Peers, the Internet, the world
• The process should be making a come up with ideas, sketch/draft revising it/then editing it
• We should measure quality if it intrigues us/motivate
• We measure our own quality

Intention

How do we clarify our specific goal(s) for a project?

• Speaking with others
• Look back at original thoughts then reflect and see if they’re the same
• Well you could measure quality on how your audience enjoy it
• The people that measure it are the people that know how to measure the quality

Pre-production

How can we brainwrite, brainstorm, storyboard, and plan our ideas at this phase?

• Using a pencil, paper, The world, the Internet, or peers
• Well try to come up with as many as you can and if you can’t ask others for ideas and or help you come up with some cool ideas
• Well we could measure quality by knowing and having an image set in your mind of what your idea would look like at the end of it
• You could measure it or mainly the people that your showing your idea to

Production

How do we communicate with each other and execute our plan for this phase? This is where we actually make the project.

• The internet and any other materials that would help your idea come true
• well start with a sketch or rough draft then move to what you want it to look like
• we would measure quality by looking at what your idea looked like and what your final idea looked like and compare how similar
• Yourself, co-workers, audience

Post-production

How do we communicate with each other and execute our final stages of the project for this phase? This is where we publish the project.

• Your brain, and The brains of others
• well make sure you have a rough draft then make revisions to it and then make a final draft/ product
• does the audience Like it and does it fit your standards
• Yourself and the audience/people viewing the project

Presentation/Performance

How do we share our project with our learning community, advisory members, and the world?

• Internet, People
• well you should tell people about your project then those people can tell other people
• we would measure by seeing what the world and community thinks of it
• the people viewing the project

Feedback

How do we conduct a feedback session at the end of the project development cycle?

• Have some questions for the people asking how they liked it or a survey
• first, you should make a survey online then have them fill in a spot with feedback about your project
• well you should take the results of the survey and see what people say about it
• The people taking the survey so peers or the world

Elon Musk birthday: June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa.

Personal Success Definition

Success to me is when a person has a dream or is inspired by something then achieves there goal that is what being successful is achieving your dream

Elon musk achieved his dream by turning most of the cars from fossil fuels in the satiable energy and focusing on his dream he was able to achieve it now he wanted to just put greenhouse experiments on mars and now he is launching most of the U.S rockets into space

Skills for Success

Elon musk skills for success: To seize the opportunity to be better than the rest 1) Seek out criticism 2) Surround yourself with the best 3) For Elon musk to be better he deiced to make his own rocket company because others were too expensive and for his company to stand out he made them reusable. Elon musk says you need criticism “A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold. You should seek that from everyone you can but particularly your friends. Usually, your friends know what’s wrong, but they don’t want to tell you because they don’t want to hurt you.”(https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/elon-musk-says-adopting-these-3-simple-steps-has-helped-produce-his-success.html). And Elon also says that you need to surround yourself with the best even though he has a lot of degrees in things it’s still good to listen carefully for what peoples advice is.

How They Used These Skills

Well, Elon Musk used his skills in many different ways like making his own rocket company now he has the opportunity to launch most of the U.S rockets into space and be part of the Mars mission. He also seeks out criticism which helps him with knowing what is wrong with his ideas or builds and becomes more successful because he asks for help. Then surrounds himself with the best so he can get good ideas from others.

Challenges Overcome

Some of the challenges that Elong Musk has gone through is his first three rockets to launch burned up and failed but he kept trying and asking people how to fix this and now most of his rockets are successful. In 2010 Elon musk went bankrupt because he put every penny into his company he was living on 200,000 dollars a month from billionaire friends then he kept trying and his company blew up and he started selling like crazy.

Significant Work

Embed something they have made that is significant, famous, etc.  This could be a song, YouTube video, an image.  Something to show the reader. The embedded media will give the reader context for this person. Write a brief decription of the media you embedded.

This is Elong musk planning to launch a spaceship to mars and working on the expedition

Resources

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-overcomes-challenges-2013-3

https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/elon-musk-says-adopting-these-3-simple-steps-has-helped-produce-his-success.html

https://www.biography.com/business-figure/elon-musk

“Day 092/366 – To Do List” by Great Beyond is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Your toughest work is defining what your work is! –  Peter Drucker

SUMMARY

• Write your weekly summary here, last, at the end of the week…
  • Only one to two sentences of WHAT YOU DID
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

In this ‘room’ you are going to try Getting Things Done (GTD).

STEP 1: MAKE A LIST

• Thing 1: start on my finish previous edublogs
• Thing 2:finish my math homework
• Thing 3: do my chemistry homework
• Thing 4:study for Spanish

STEP 2: NOTICE WHAT YOU NOTICED

• Thing 1: start on my finish previous edublogs
• Thing 2:finish my math homework
• Thing 3: do my chemistry homework
• Thing 4:study for Spanish

STEP 3: SET A TIMER

1. Set a timer for your first task
   1. Decide how long you think it will take before you start
2. Start working
3. Repeat this process for 45 minutes for as many tasks as you can complete, then take a 15-minute break
   • Get up and get a drink of water
   • Get up and go for a walk
   • Every 20 minute blink your eyes 20 times while looking at least 20 feet away
     • This is good for your eyes

Start steps 1 through 3 again, repeat for your school day

OUTSIDE (PRODUCTIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 20 minutes in this ‘room’
• Watch the first 30 seconds of this Oct. 2020 interview with David Allen

• Reflect on GTD and getting to the top of the colorful list above for a minute
  • How can the GTD process help you tame the crazy-busy dragon of modern life?

• Then, go for a 15-minute walk, if it is safe to do so
• Write a few sentence reflection
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

OPTIONAL EXERCISE – Literally, read the article and go for another walk 🙂

“I coach C-suite executives and rising stars from the earliest startups to Fortune 100 companies. My passion is to help ambitious leaders achieve their full human potential.”  – Read more about Katia…

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 15 minutes reading…
  • FastCompany Magazine article about Katia Verresen’s techniques and GTD, https://www.fastcompany.com/3026827/the-brain-hacks-top-founders-use-to-get-the-job-done
• Then, go for another 15-minute walk, if it is safe to do so
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

• Write only a few sentences of WHAT YOU LEARNED
• In one or two sentences, describe a PROBLEM YOU SOLVED
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

WEEKLY ACTIVITY EVALUATION

• Give feedback on this week’s class Content and Process
  • Fill in the Weekly Activity Evaluation
• DELETE THIS WHOLE SECTION, AFTER YOU ARE DONE