Effective Communications Real Life Situation

One of the effective communications situation that happens a lot is with my mom. I was trying to talk to my mom about my day, so I kept calling my moms name while she was in the other room doing her emails. But, then my mom started to get really angry and mad at me because I kept annoying her. So, then I ended up feeling kind of upset, almost as if my mom didn't want to hear about my day. As well as, I felt a bit upset since my mom got a bit stressed and angry at me. But, I thought back to our effective communications presentations and I remembered one tool I really liked and needed to work on was working around my parents schedules. Later on, once my mom finished her emails, came back into the living room and sat down. I sat down with my mom and I told her I was sorry and now that I learnt to work around her schedule, as well as talked about my day. In the end, my mom was really impressed and finally glad I was going to start to work around her schedule. So, this tool is very useful and successful for me.

Band: Festival Concert Reflection 2015

I am most proud of how we all worked together allowing us to grow as musicians, work well together, and have a better concert. As well as, I am proud of how we were definitely more concentrated and respectful as audience members.

Of all the things I learned from Dr. Robblee throughout Festival week, the one thing that I will remember to use in my daily playing is the breathing techniques we learned, because when we breathed we could hear all of us breathing knowing when someone is about to play so it helps us play all together. I will also use the breathing techniques because when we got enough air in our lungs, our tone was a lot better on the first note and throughout the piece.

October 26: Interactive Map

The blue dots represent the earthquakes. Each shade of blue represent how strong/ level of the earthquake. For example, the darkest blue represents a 9 earthquake and the lightest blue represents a 5 earthquake. As well as, the other colours represent levels in between.

What I have discovered with this map is mostly all the earthquakes in South America go along the coastline of the West

Gossip Project

Band: Clouds

 

10/5 Heaney Rubric

Tennis

Two things I think I am doing well with my forehand swing is getting the drive through the racket, letting it swing up, and being able to hit the ball because even though I am not doing the body rotation I still have as swing getting a good drive. Another thing I think I am doing well is stepping forward to hit the ball, and before I hit the ball I am in ready position because being in ready position lets you be ready allowing me to move around faster to hit the ball.

Two things I need to work on with my forehand swing is rotation with my body,  I will improve with this by taking a few practice rotation swings before I start playing to remind me and get used to rotating. Another thing I need to work on is instead of hitting the ball right underneath making it go straight up, I need to keep it low but just to the side. To improve this I will alway have my racket at the side in the position so when it come I just need to get a quick drive, so my aim will be better.