Believe it or not I interviewed the one and only Marco Polo. You will hear some very interesting facts about the legendary traveler and a lot about his history and his lifetime. We have recorded everything so you will be very fascinated by all his very amazing facts and his life story. I hope you all have a good time listening to this podcast.

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This is a picture of Marco Polo

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This is a map of his journey

Unfortunately this is a shorter version of the podcast so you don’t get to listen to the whole entire thing.

1. What did I feel successful doing during the process of the project? What am I proud of?

I feel successful about everything during the process of the project. I think I did fairly well with everything I did and I’m very proud of myself. I am most proud of my oral presentation because I think it got the kids attention and it made it interesting for them.

2. What new skills did I value learning?

Skills I valued learning is making a piece for elementary school. It was difficult but I managed to make an interesting piece of work for little kids and still be informational.

3. What was challenging during the process of completing the project? With what did I struggle?

Finding information was the most challenging thing because most of the sites didn’t have the things I needed so I struggled with that. I also struggled with my visual because I wasn’t quite sure what to do for my visual so I started doing different things but ended up with one. I also struggled with the game because I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do for my game.

4. How could I have improved my process so that I would have been more effective?

I could have improved my process so that I would have been more effective is be more organize and prepare for the medieval fair. I should have gone over my oral presentation more.

5. Did I effectively create an age-appropriate presentation and game for the elementary students? (please explain how you know it was appropriate or how you could have changed it to be more appropriate)

Yes, I think I did create an age-appropriate presentation and game for the elementary students but it wasn’t 100% to the audience. There were a few words that weren’t for the 1st graders but other than that it was appropriate. It was fun and it was interactive also so I got the little kids do some stuff.

Link to homework

1. What did I feel successful doing during the process of the project? What am I proud of?

I felt really successful and relieved when I finished all my research because there were a lot of information I had to write down about my topic and I was really relieved once I researched all the information I had to. It was the hardest part because at the same time I was writing down information I was trying to write it in my own words which didn’t work out so well. I ended up with 4 full pages of information. Since I wrote down my information in order to write down the article, it was easy for me to make the outline and the article. I am proud of getting all that information, putting it in my own words later on, creating an outline of it, and making it all into an encyclopedia. I am proud of the work I have done because it was quite troublesome. I felt really relieved after I finished all my work.

2. What new skills did I value learning?

Skills I learned is how to make a master slide in a power point. I have never knew about it and I have never used it before. I also never knew you could link slide to slide in power point, It will come handy to me in the future. I also never knew you could make action buttons in power point. I now know more things about power point and I can use those skills in the future to make my presentations better.

3. What was challenging during the process of completing the project? With what did I struggle?

A challenging part during the process of completing the project was creating everything into my own words. It always has been a weakness for me, even though I try not to I always seem to copy a lot. In the end I plagiarized 0%. I also had a hard time in creating the jeopardy game at the start. The instructions were quiet confusing so I struggled with that for quite a while. It was my very first time using a master slide so I new nothing about it. I also never knew how to link stuff in a power point presentation. I struggled most in creating the jeopardy game presentation.

4. How could I have improved my process so that I would have been more effective?

Something I should have done is put the information into my own words while I was getting the information. If I did that, I would have finished my project earlier and be more effective. Another thing is when my group and I were having trouble with the power point, we should have asked for help instead of figure out how to fix it ourselves.

Link to news article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070917/ap_on_re_as/thailand_plane_crash   

What is the issue? 

During Monday, September 17, 2007, a plane on the resort island
Phuket, Thailand, crashed, in a stormy weather. 91 people died, and 55 of them were foreign tourists. There were 123 passengers in the plane and 7 crewmembers. The plane was off course because of the bad wind and rain, and then it crashed into a low retaining wall, split in two, and was set on fire.

Who is affected and how? 

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