KIS CO'22 MYP Personal Project Exhibition
Why did we plan a virtual personal project exhibition?
Before the school closure due to covid-19, our grade 10 students (CO'22) have already decided on the 'video game theme' for their exhibition this year. In their reflection, they had worked hard through various stages in different levels of complexities. They enjoyed it at first and then when the game started to get difficult, it was sometimes challenging for them to stay motivated and meet due dates. It required repetition and practice before they can reach the finishing line.
A couple of weeks later, we needed to adjust to online teaching and learning. The thought of not having the personal project exhibition did come to my mind. Everyone was exhausted at this point (March madness), including myself, and it would be a lot of work to get the virtual exhibition to happen. However, at the end, I thought it will be selfish to cancel this. I met with the student planning committee via Zoom chats and we started to brainstormed how we can make the exhibition happen in the virtual space creatively. My students use Instagram frequently (potentially daily, hourly!) and therefore, we settled on using Instagram as the exhibition platform. I don't really use Instagram and it took me some time to figure out how it might work. When students talked about "Highlight" and "Caption" used in Instagram, I was unsure what they were talking about. I made sure I listened carefully to their ideas and asked clarifying questions. Students created logos for their own projects which represented for the video game 'stages'. Each global context represents a game level. We did not have project related to the global context, fairness and development, and therefore, there were only five game levels. The map of this video game is displayed as highlights in our Personal Project Exhibition IG account. I have made a video to show you how the highlights look like below.
Introduction video
How do users interact with the exhibition?
What did I learn?
Students originally wanted to organize livestreams via IG, but at the end, it was slightly challenging to do so. We decided to host Zoom meetings and invite our school community members to interact with our grade 10 'creators'.