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“‘Be shapeless and formless.. like water’ (Bruce Lee)” by Akinini.com is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

“Have a mind like water.”

― David Allen,  GTD

SUMMARY

I relaxed a good bit this week. I got my work done this week in a somewhat timely manner.

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

• Set a timer for 60 minutes in this ‘room’
  • Complete up through pre-production in SneakOnTheLot.com

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

• Set a timer
• Spend 75 minutes in this ‘room’
• Watch the first episode of The Story of Film and take notes in a separate blog post

Steps

1. Create a blog post titled, Story of Film – Episode 1 – Birth of the Cinema
2. Embed an interesting Creative Commons image from Flickr.com at the top of your post
   • Have an image that sums up the gist of the episode
   • SELECT A CREATIVE COMMONS IMAGE  FROM SEARCH.CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG AT THE TOP OF THE POST
     • WATCH MR. LE DUC IMAGE PLACEMENT TUTORIAL, if you need to
3. Create a heading 2 titled Notes 
4. Watch Mr. Le Duc’s Story of Film Notetaking Video Tutorial (2:00)
5. Copy and paste the episode’s referenced films as text with links from The Story of Film: An Odyssey at Wikipedia
6. Cite your source as Wikipedia and link back to The Story of Film: An Odyssey page
   • Example: “The following material is from Wikipedia.”
7. Take notes as you watch the episode
   • Indent under the film Mark Cousins is referencing
     • Place your notes there
     • These notes will help you on future research projects in high school and possibly in college
8. Access Episode 1 and begin watching

OUTSIDE (PRODUCTIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• Set a timer
• Spend 15 minutes in this ‘room’

• Review this infographic for 5 minutes (Click for larger PDF version)
• If you want, read more at  bananatreelog.com/blog/daily-dose-of-happiness-chemicals

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

• 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

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 60 minutes in this ‘room’
• Complete…
  1. First Time User
  2. Introduction To Film

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.’

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

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)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 15 minutes
• Then watch David Allen summarize the steps
  • “Very simple folks! …
    1. Just WRITE STUFF DOWN
    2. Decide the ACTIONS and OUTCOMES embedded in them
    3. Get yourself a MAP OF ALL THAT so you can step back and take a look at it.
    4. And then, basically, you USE THE MAP TO DECIDE, “OK, here’s the course that we’re going to go on.”
    5. You then LAUNCH the ‘ship’ on a trusted course in the short term, as well as on the long horizon that you’re moving on.
    6. And then, on a regular basis, you need to REASSESS, “OK, we need to take in NEW DATA, CLEANUP, RECALIBRATE, and REFOCUS for the next leg of the journey.”
  • It’s that simple…”
• ‘Capture’ all the ACTION ITEMS you can in your GTD Trusted System

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

WEEKLY ACTIVITY EVALUATION

I learned a lot on how film actually started. It was really interesting to learn about how the technology developed and the culture grew. And with the different processes I’ve finally come up with a process I can use to keep track of everything without hyper fixating on it.

“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

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

I got my my school work done this week and followed the election. Same as most weeks.

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

STEP 1: MAKE A LIST

I need to keep up with my work and make sure I don’t miss any assignments this week.

STEP 2: NOTICE WHAT YOU NOTICED

French Work
English Work
Chemistry Work
Film Work
Algebra Work
History Work

STEP 3: SET A TIMER

OUTSIDE (PRODUCTIVITY & THE BRAIN)

The process can help me pace out all of my work so that I don’t overexert myself and make everything more stressful, which would result in me actually getting less work done than if I wasn’t stressed.

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…

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

WEEKLY ACTIVITY EVALUATION

I learned a few different ways that I can help improve my time management. It’ll prove to be pretty helpful with some of them once I spend the time to plan it all out because my current technique isn’t efficient, just keeps the stress off of me.

SUMMARY

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

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

I picked Olive Video Editor

Each video in this playlist goes over a part of the video editor, and goes over examples and gives you visuals on how to properly use it and how it functions.

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

I finished the sneak in the lot introductory quiz and got a 100%.

OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)

If my life was a movie I think it would be one of those silent short films that just follow a single person as they do basic tasks throughout the day.

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!

I think quality can be measured at each stage by how close it is to what it is intended to be at that point. If you’re at the filming process and you don’t have a script, or the script is not at where it is supposed to do the project is currently not something of quality. If any step of the process isn’t finished with the project at where it’s supposed to be then the entire project will suffer in quality.

Image of Shammy’s logo from Famous Birthdays, https://www.famousbirthdays.com/faces/shammy-image.jpg

Born: December 3rd, 1995, in the US

I define success as a person being on the path or having reached a goal they have to complete. This could be enjoying life, creating art, forming relationships, anything. As long as you are on that path or have reached that goal, you are successful.

Shammy is successful because he is following his goals and creating artistic content that is enjoyed by a lot of people.

Skills for Success

Shammy had to learn how to properly analyze games, write coherent scripts, professionally edit videos, and just keep up with everything around YouTube

How They Used These Skills

Shammy uses these skills to review video games. He will go through his process of playing the game. After that he will write the script, find the footage he needs and record the audio, then he will edit everything together and make it into a video.

Challenges Overcome

Shammy has had to face a lot of challenges. He had to establish a following, come up with the process to make his videos, which is probably the biggest challenge. He has to go through the game, take the notes, and also deal with the constant updates that the game could be getting, sometimes making waiting a big part of the process.

Significant Work

He is well known for his No Man Sky reviews and especially his review of Paladins and Overwatch, which was the most anticipated video he’s made so far, and also the best example of the downsides to his video making process.