Rules and Expectations & Project Ideas

Rules and expectations

1. Choose a project that is new to you and something you wouldn't normally do in another academic class.
2. Complete Genius Hour proposal form, to identify your "I wonder statement". 
3. Each month, we will have a week long Genius Hour session. I will establish the weekly goal, but it will be up to you to determine how to reach that goal. On Fridays, of each Genius Hour session, you will reflect on the process in a blog post.
4. If at any moment you feel lost, overwhelmed, or uninspired, you must set a meeting with me to find a solution.
5. At the end of the year, you will present your project and reflect on the process in a five-minute TED-style talk in front of other students, teachers, and community members. Your Ted Talk should include some sort of visual media component...See the link below for ideas!

  See Cool Presentation Tools link

 for GH final project ideas)

WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR GENIUS HOUR?

WHAT CAN YOU DO IN YOUR OWN BLOCK OF TIME?

Here are some more questions to ask yourself:

1. What new idea do you want to develop?
2. What have you been wanting to try?
3. What skill can you master?
4. What tool can you learn that will help you work better?
5. What tool could help you create something beautiful?
6. What tool could help you communicate better?

More Genius Questions from Angela Maiers

1. How can we make it better?
2. How can we make each other better?
3. How do we know this to be so?
4. Is this what is needed most?
5. What is it we hope to accomplish and what’s stopping us?
6. What are we most proud of?
7. What is possible?
8. When can we start?
9. How will we prevent failure?
10. How can we make this happen?
11. Who can make this happen?
12. What do we regret most?
13. How can we make the best use of…?
14. What if we…?

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