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In this lesson, we were able to acquire a stronger understanding of pitching and creating innovative ideas. The first activity we participated in was a sheet of paper covered in circles. In this short activity, we had to create a range of symbols/objects in the shape of a circle. This had to stretch my thinking and that of others in coming up with shapes like clocks, sports balls, frying pans, glasses, donuts, etc. Some of these objects were examples of how we had to think outside the box, coming up with strange and interesting ideas. The second activity was 'how many different ways to shave a monkey', this was to help with divergent and convergent thinking. Having two distinct ideas helps with problem-solving and creativity. The final activity helped with how businesses and companies come up with ideas, allowing us to branch off using our ideas to put together a pitch with a given symbol, a group of people, and transport. Using these 3 topics, we had to come up with an idea/pitch on how we could come up with our given cars, which were a bus, musicians, and an A-type symbol with a wave across it. Mixing those ideas together, the final idea was a specific transportation vehicle for musicians and their instruments. This helped us with marketing and how entrepreneurs come up with ideas.

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In this task, we were given 2 sheets of A3 paper and a couple of duct tape pieces. Using these materials, we had to come up with an idea on how to create a product to protect skin from the sun. This activity taught us to create a product within a limited amount of time, under pressure to come out with a product and a worthy pitch to present to the class. Coming up with a price and how it helps our final product was a hat that could be used as a box to help shade people's faces, as well as being able to hold things inside. To go with this, an upside-down chatter box that can be used to hold sunscreen and other products. This was displayed with a price of 0.99c to make it more affordable for people. In our pitch, we explained where these items could be purchased and who are main target audience was. Overall, this lesson helped me with how to confidently do a pitch. Watching the 'Scrub Daddy' sharks showed me an idea on how to effectively present a pitch. In the future, we could have planned our pitch to work better together due to the fact that some things didn't work when creating our product.

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Completing the character strengths survey showed me how I can apply my strengths in the working field. With my top 3 being love, gratitude, and hope, it displays that I am aware and thankful that good things will happen. I value relationships and expect the best out of the future.

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After doing multiple tasks, I have had to collaborate and communicate with my peers. I was able to develop stronger skills in different areas by doing activities like thinking games, pitching ideas, and elaborating on why certain things are a good idea. Specific things like these have influenced the way I approach problems. An example is divergent and convergent thinking. Divergent thinking allowed me to encourage the way I think, exploring various ideas and thinking outside the box. Assisting me with problem-solving and more. I feel like the biggest challenge I will encounter in the future is having to really stretch my thinking and come up with hard new ideas. I'm mostly excited to work in groups and collaborate to generate fun ideas and to be able to work and expand on others' ideas as well. My personality or character that could be challenged in particular areas could be having to pay full attention and actively listen so I have a full understanding of what I need to do and to do it well.

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This week, we had to look at each of our slides and discuss the reflections we did about our partner. My partner was Olivia, and I had interviewed her about what her lunchtime experience was. This was done by using a timeline about what each of our personal lunchtimes consisted of. I reflected on my lunchtime and Olivia's, and what we both had done during that time. Once the timeline was done, the next part was doing the empathy map. In this part, I had to put down Olivia's needs, wants, influences, gains, etc. This allowed me to explore Olivia and the things she loves, including her needs, wants, and more about herself. I wrote about her pros and cons, which gave me insight into how she felt. The next part was the insight statement; this task was incomplete, stating just the facts. Which we had to change to better facts based on insights and the feeling around it. I discussed mine about Olivia and explained that Olivia is stressed about work and school, and ways she can prevent herself from feeling bad. For way she can improve is by getting better sleep and increasing how she manages her time. This will allow her more free time to do the things she loves and not be stressed or tired. This whole lesson helped with understanding better with Olivia's problems and ways to make her have a better lunchtime.

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Week 3 reflection Spin off identifying the issue: 

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This week, we mainly focused on finding problems with a specific council and figuring out a way to fix it. On Monday, we started off by doing all of our council's in the area we live in. Doing this in a group of 3, we chose tree canopies as it was an issue in Unley Council. We found ways to improve it and prevent it from getting worse. This activity was the viewing student spin-off exemplar, which allowed us to share options and discuss as a group. The next activity we did was 50 in 5, this was a quick task where in 5 minutes we had to come up with 50 different issues that affect the local council areas that we chose. This made us really think and brainstorm ideas that affect local councils, which we then had later discussed in our group why we chose that. We did 2 more activities of Catapult cards and Design thinking, which allowed us to really break down specific issues that happen and how we can find a solution. The card game challenged us with random question to find a solution. An example of a question from one of the cards was 'Think of all the problems big and small with how we create, use, and dispose of waste.' The solutions we came up with were:

Purchasing

Plastic bottles

Selling

Cans

Litter

This was done with similar questions which our group would come up with quick answers in a short time frame. The design thinking task we had to find 3 issues and break them down further using our understanding of empathy and its role in the design process. The most effective activity was the empathy maps. Creating 3 empathy maps of the topics Tree canopies, Public transport, and road maintenance, we wrote about how each had different impacts (pros and cons). We later conducted further research about the chosen problem, looking through local council’s website, news articles, interviews and other sources to gain a better understanding.

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This week, we focused on the 'SCAMPER' method and creating surveys. On Monday, we had to brainstorm solutions for our issue analysing things we can do to make it better. This was conducted for our spin of the project, giving us more time to work together as a group. We were able to grow our communication, leading to our discussions being more collaborative. This activity increased our problem-solving skills, creating good ideas and expanding on them. The next thing we had to do was create a survey, which taught me how to do one, as this was my first time, and I had to come up with great, elaborate questions. The survey was about our problem, and we had peers in our class answer it and give us feedback about it, and what they thought about our issue. We did another 50 in 5, where we brainstormed 50 solutions to our chosen problem, expanding on our idea. We did diverse thinking activities where we spent 10 minutes completing 3 more activities as a group and then combined them. The most engaging activity was using the 'SCAMPER' method, which was the most challenging as we had to really think outside the box. We had watched a video beforehand, which assisted with understanding how to make our idea better. Exploring different possibilities and a structured approach. It helped us break normal routine thinking to challenge our original habits and generate fresh ideas. Today we did lesson activities doing 'speed sharing', going up to people outside of our group and talking to our classmates about ways to improve our idea and giving them feedback about ours.

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This week it was focused on script writing and learning how to develop a unique and convincing script. Using collaboration and critical and creative thinking, we partner up with other groups and share our ideas about a certain topic using Ethos, logos, and Pathos, which we did a presentation on. We had to persuade our audience on a specific topic, which we came up with in around 5 minutes. I then developed a spin-off script and started drafting for my group's infomercial. Later during the week, my group and I used our critical thinking to come up with unique ideas and planned how we were going to do our infomercial. We viewed examples of effective infomercials, which gave us some assistance in how we were going to create ours. It gave me things to branch off and extend our ideas to a greater extent. Throughout the rest of the week, we continued to plan for our infomercial, communicating together to know who is going to do what part, making it more fair towards us. In our script, we would add in different techniques, creating a more persuasive appeal and image towards the audience. This all helped with promoting our solution, making it more effective. The last lesson we filmed, one part of it, and took multiple takes, but it allowed us to improve on it. Using the lesson time to film and start producing our spin-off infomercial has advantages, as it provides us with more time to get it done quickly and get feedback from our peers and teachers.

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On Monday, this lesson, we started doing our spin-off production. Using communication and collaboration, my group and I worked together to create our spin-off production on Tree Canopies. We started by writing down our script, each having a fair share role so we all do equal parts. We encountered an issue with one of our members being away on a certain day, so we used our initiative and had to do their script beforehand and film their part earlier so they could still be in production. This was done on Wednesday, having a productive number of lessons, we were able to finish everything and have the videos done, just leaving the rest to be edited and turned into a video. This was a very collaborative task, and we all communicated well with each other, giving us time to get everything done and not fall behind. We only had 2 lessons to do everything, which made it more difficult, but we were able to be efficient and everything was completed.

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What skills did you gain/develop throughout the Spin Off Project?

The skills I gained throughout the Spin-off project were developing better problem-solving skills when issues were encountered and using my initiative to fix the problem. Having to use time management when people were away was a good skill I developed to know how to create lessons where we can all do our part.

What challenges did you encounter? How did you overcome these?

When people were away, those became challenges we had to navigate around to make time for them to still do their part. For example, if Olivia were away for a specific day, we would get her to do her part early so that we could still involve her in the video. Another one was when me Milla and I were away for a trip for a week, we would still communicate with each other.

What is the most successful part of your final infomercial?

The most successful of our final infomercials was watching it be finished and watching the video with my group. After the many takes done to get the perfect clip, it was very satisfying watching it all come together. This felt like the most successful part as it was all put together nicely. It felt that all are hard work was finished and we were able to discuss with my group members things we could improve on in the future.

What did you learn from watching your peers’ infomercials?

After watching my peers' infomercials, I gathered many things about the differences between mine and theirs. I learned the different techniques they used across their infomercial and all their different ideas and solutions. I had exposure to new perspectives on how other groups offered their ideas to the council problem. We were able to learn from them, understanding different techniques, observing their film styles, their creative strategies, and their presentation approach.

What did other groups do well?

They all edited their videos well and successfully displayed their idea to the audience. It was well put together, and most groups correctly used persuasive techniques. They really showed how they worked together in a group and used the 5Cs across their videos.

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What improvements would we make if we had the opportunity to do the task again?

Next time, I would work on having better time management as a group, in the Spin Off task 2/3 group members were away for a whole week, which created a struggle for one of our other members. This would be unlikely to happen again, so we would be more prepared, and one person wouldn't have to struggle. In the future, being more prepared and finishing the assignment early would make it smoother and convenient for the whole group.

Where did our group do really well in the Spinoff task?

We did well in working together and continuously communicating with one another. This was helpful as we would let each other know what parts we are doing to make it fair.

What Elements of Collaboration were successful?

Being inclusive: This was successful as we were always checking up on our group members, allocating each person a fair amount of what we had to do. This worked well in collaborating as a group.

Being respectful: Always being respectful to one another, acknowledging my peers' different ideas, and branching off from them. Being positive in difficult situations and having appropriate behavior towards my group.

What improvements could have been made in terms of Collaboration?

Some improvements that could be made in terms of collaboration are still have stronger communication. This can always be improved by having that constant communication, as there were times were miscommunication occurred.

What Persuasive Techniques did we use? How effective were these?

Some persuasive techniques used were mainly ethos, logos, and pathos. These were effective as they enhanced credibility. It created the argument to be more relatable, making the audience share a liking more towards the infomercial, persuading the audience effectively.

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Engaging in partnerships:

This was very crucial to do when planning our infomercial in the spin-off project. We were always interacting with our group members whenever we had the chance. Week 6 was the week we did most of our work due to the fact that most of the group members were away. Engaging with our peers was a huge part of what we did in Week 6.

Engaging in conversation:

Always having open ears towards my group members allowed us to connect with each other to share information. Always actively participating to maintain conversation so we are sure of what all of us are doing and there's no miscommunication.

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What are our initial thoughts about our Spin Off Topic?

Our initial thoughts about the Spin Off project are slightly confused. I have a small understanding of what we are doing, but still partially confused. It sounds like an engaging idea that will be fun to work with my group, but I will talk to my group to fully understand the topic.

What do we still need to know or find out?

We need to find out how we are going to plan this and what we need to create a successful infomercial. We will find this out by using are sources to help give us guidance along the way so we can reach our full potential with our infomercial.

How can we find this information? Person, survey, internet, experts etc

Doing surveys and asking people around can help give us a better understanding of how topic and being able to gather statistics to make our video more persuasive.

What is most intriguing about this topic?

Tree Canopies is intriguing since it's not a very well-known issue. People always discuss council issues about rubbish, house issues, etc. Tree canopies are a lesser-known topic.

What am I most concerned about (either this topic or Spin Off in general).

Not having enough time because 2/3 of our group members are away for week 7, which could create issues with poor time management.

What persuasive techniques did you find most effective?

Ethos, Pathos, Logos, these are all helpful techniques that I find most effective to use for the infomercial. It will compel people using statistics, Emotion, and some people to back our information up.

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In term 4, we have to come up with a unique product to solve a problem with 2 solutions. We started off with the idea of managing schoolwork, which we started developing further, but we struggled to make it work. We thought it wasn't very interesting, and a new idea would be better. It was complicated and difficult to come up with a new idea, considering we had already researched and started planning. Although an idea came do to something with delivering food, but making it affordable and healthy, not processed. We then started looking into Hello fresh, which gave us new ideas, but we still needed to make it different from Hello Fresh and stand out.

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To gather and grow better ideas using our critical thinking skills, many activities were done to help us be more successful. One activity that helped was the 50 in 5, which allowed us to communicate with one another, having to continue to branch off each other's ideas. I wanted to get better at knowing how to use Design Thinking and other tools for identifying a genuine problem. I started focusing better and contributing more to help with my benefits to grow. We were put into small groups, to which we had to create a product or service and then have a limited time for to sell the idea. We had to use a catchy name and then attempted to sell the idea to our class. To still help us with the beginning of working out the ways and ideas to sell a pitch, we watched videos about real pitches. These infomercials gave us examples of understanding what one small problem can do. 'Who gives a crap' was a newly invented toilet paper solution. It was better for the environment, and the people created a whole new invention of toilet paper, but completely different. We got introduced to our new assignment and then started conducting a shortlist of the problems that we find most interesting.

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These 2 days we started to get more involved with the innovative project that was being introduced. We found out our groups and began brainstorming problems that we found most interesting and answered the following questions.

Consider the following questions:

Where is it a problem?

Who does it affect?

Why is it happening? (Think of all the causes and associated problems)

Looking at this website it helped me and my group start to think of things that we would want to create a solution for. Started looking at the 17 goals. The 4th one was better education. A string idea that came together was to find an idea to help with managing school workloads. Since it gives students stress and anxiety with not prepared. We wanted to expand this idea to be more open for others, so we branched out and made it for managing workloads not only for students but also for teachers and workers. https://sdgs.un.org/goals

On Friday, we started looking into finding 5 sources to support the emerging understanding of the problem. Individually, we selected one SDG from the website that was of most interest to us and started researching it.

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This week we focused more on activities doing activities as 50 in 5, How, Now, Wow matrix, and then ended it with market research. The How, Now, Wow matrix idea assisted with our solutions. Having to place a solution to see how possible they were. We were able to cut out ideas, get new ones, and find some more creative ones. Then we did some market research, which helped with refining my understanding of the problem and started to identify existing solutions around the world that are attempting to address this problem.

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This week, we started getting more into our innovative task, being more with our groups, and discussing more about the possible problem we want to solve. We revisited more of the culture-building activities, which got groups to collaborate and communicate better. It encouraged teamwork. Working together in fun or challenging situations helps people learn how to cooperate, solve problems, and support one another. Everyone would share ideas, and we would branch off into things that we would be discussing. We revisited a lot of the common activities we have done, being the SCAMPER ideas, which really helped, and we could grow on. At the end of Monday, we started to develop our pitch but didn't really get to much done with that.

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These last 2 days, we really started to grow on our ideas and discuss them more about what we were all thinking. We would challenge each other by putting in solutions and asking each other 'How will that idea work? Are you combining features of two or more existing solutions? These sorts of questions really helped with the way we think to generate new and creative ideas and solutions. At the end of Wednesday, we had to find a solution similar to our idea to compare so we could see why it's good and why it works, and how we can adapt that to ours. We know where we are sitting at right now, so we know that after comparing our idea to Hello Fresh, we can expand our idea to stand out. We have been putting ideas together about making a vending machine that can be a on-the-go snack. It can have the idea of whole meals and fresh food, and how you can choose your meal, and it comes to you from the vending machine. It could possibly include a microwave that uses solar panels to make it more environmentally friendly. On Friday, we began working on a survey to send to the school which we could get statistics and use it in our presentation, and how we can improve our ideas.

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Getting closer to the pitch day, we created our 2 final solutions being a website and a healthy vending machine. The website is different from Hello Fresh as it incorporates more things required for the person ordering the food. The meals a person orders has their meals tailored to their preferences; How much weight they want to lose/gain, what their lifestyle is, etc. All these things come into healthy, whole-meal meals, which we sent the ingredients for, and all they have to do is read the instructions and put the food together. The second solution we put together was the vending machine, which is easy for people working late night shifts and have easy access to a healthy snack on the way out instead of fast food, and students, athletes, and others who want something more filling instead. We continued to apply our design thinking research tools to develop our marketing pitch, kept working on it and practicing our script, and we had some issues with going over the time limit, so we cut down some words.

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We did our presentation talking about our ideas and marketing pitch to our teaches and the leader of action project. We discussed everything about who it is aimed for, how much it costs, the problem and 2 solutions, etc. They all gave us feedback about things we did well and what we can improve on, which we acknowledged and took into consideration to work on in the future. After that we discussed as a group what we thought went well ourselves and what things we could improve on, which could have been doing a better practice altogether so we felt more confident. We didn't include much discussion about the prices, which we said we could elaborate further on.