We have been taking turns each week writing this up, each member in the group having a go at describing our progress and thinking around our progress so far.
My suggestion is that instead of a fixed journaling person, someone volunteers, or is volunteered at the end of each session to record our activity into this journal. I am happy to do it, but am unfortunately still receiving from being rather sick yesterday, so still quite cotton -brained today, I have written up a bit on how we come to the viking theme in our main doc, but that’s just about me for today - feel free to just pop bullet points in for now - or go ahead and scribe away the legend of the four: Myke, Jenna, Jarred & Ira. (we should invent personalities for our four vikings based on personality caricatures of us four, lol!)
I don’t mind doing this :)
Week 1.
- decided on a theme: Viking
- Assigned tasks in the group
- Began initial explorations into bottle designs, packaging
- Brainstormed slogans, brand names, jingles etc.
Comments:
As a group we grappled with ideas to organise what type of ginger beer we wanted to market. We decided to go with a manly form where we have incorporated the “Viking “ theme. As a group we decided to create an alcoholic ginger beer as an alternative drink that adults could enjoy.
Week 2.
- Reviewed art work, finalised choices
- Finalised slogans
- Established a vision statement for our company.
- Thinking about bottle layout and how to link a common symbol between the packaging and the label.
Comments:
We as a group have decided that the sketches of the “Viking” theme have worked in our favour where we have been able to decide that each bottle will have their own image and we would use the chief of the vikings to tell our story as a business as being a legend. We have chosen a slogan that is “ Liking the Viking” as it rhymes and it is simple enough to understand.
Week 3.
-Making the script for our Radio ad
- Writing out our storyboards
- Designing our bottle
-Discussing our company history
- Beginning colour design with our imagery
Comments:
Each member has been contributing to the presentation and we have completed our story boards for each concept of making the radio ad, bottle , and packaging. We have chosen to stay with the viking theme and we have agreed to change the company name from generation ginger to something that is more viking based. We are in the development of our colouring for design and selecting our bottle design where we have used programs such as tinkercad and microsoft word. By have check points with the group especially using our stor boards as an overall plan it has assisted us to view our progress and understand as a group where we want to be.
Week 4
-Meet with groups
-Viewed Blogs
-Shared ideas
-Assisted with first batch of ginger beer
-Cultivated the left over bugs for our beer.
Comments:
We had our first trip to Elim Christian school where we meet with our groups that we are working with. We were able to view what work they had completed on their blogs. We were able to give valuable feedback and discuss alternative ideas to assist them with their planning. By having the blog available to comment we have been able to place feedback and assign targets for the students to work towards. We lead the making of ginger beer and as we instructed the students by going through the instructions. The students worked well in their groups and we were able to observe the group dynamics with how each child was contributing to their group.After we completed the ginger beer making we were able to take half a bug to use where we could cultivate it for our own ginger beer.
Week 5:
- Made Ginger beer in class
- Replied to our groups via blogging
- Played with our labels: Ira/Jared shared what they have done
- Made Saltdough for bottles to Thermoform
- Worked out unit plan format for write-up on E-portfolio
Comments:
There was a lot of fruitful discussion around what the unit plan should look like and what we are assessing for at each stage. It also gave us some insight as to where we should expect the students to be at at any given stage; with us five weeks in, we have now brewed our ginger beer, decided on our ginger beer theme, done the radio ad and concept design for the labels, as well as all the relevant research for this process. Give or take 1 or two lessons, we expect our students to be at a similar stage as us in the production of everything. We worked more with the finer points of our label at this stage, choosing fonts and features and can comfortably say that 2 of the 4 are finished. Jena worked on making our saltdough for the bottle casts to go in the thermoformer, which are looking very good. Its great to see the tactile element this unit utilizes, appealing to so many different manners of learning and seeing how this serves to eliminate boredom for the students. Also helpful to help us empathise with our students was the problem solving aspect of the work; working out measurement amounts for brewing, file formats for transferring label work between partners, deciding what to refine and how to change things we were creating, designating work responsibility to different people, and even trialling adding more sugar that our brew may come out alcoholic as hoped! In hoping to do this unit in future, it provides a unique perspective having done the work involved before.
Week 6.
- Discussed and collated resources and research from individual portfolios
- Documented last weeks ginger beer making process
- Developed assessment tool for the unit
- Further work on the unit plan
This week we collaborated, discussing which resources were had been useful over the course of the last few weeks. A bulk of the work today was sharing photos and links, texts - collating our individual work as E-Portfolio only allows for one contributor. Today we were mainly working on things like the unit plan which we had already outlined, so collaboration was just the odd question or contribution while for the most we just got on with the work. At this point in the project a lot of the discussion has been done, this enabled efficient progress with each person focused on a different aspect.
