THE MET Reflection Journal

Brian Velazquez                                                                                                                      2/17/17

                                                        

    On February, 17 instead of staying in school and doing regular school work we went on a field trip that day to a museum The MET. During our visit to The Met we all saw many different works of art from a variety of artists, we also saw many different sculptures from the Greeks and even some from Africa. Overall we saw many unique things from around the world that were very interesting and looked very amazing. What I learned from my visit to the Met was there can be hidden messages from the art we saw the art can also represent the feelings of Ithe artist on a certain subject. Like on one of the paintings the artist painted his girlfriend and used certain colors and details to show her beauty and how gentle she was. I can use these things I learned in some of my labs and projects it can help create more meaning for my work. 

    Yes I did enjoy my experience in the museum it gave me the opportunity to see things I've never seen before it also gave me new ideas for my work on labs and projects in the future. My favorite part was seeing the bubble dear it look really amazing and it definitely caught my eye more than the rest of the other works. I really don't have a least favorite part to the trip to The MET. I would go to the museum again but I would invite my family to join me and experience the different works of art that the MET has to offer. The map that was provided to us and the digital map on the website are also very different since the digital map you can see more detail you can also see that the digital map shows the fourth and the fifth floor. While the paper map there is less detail in their because everything will not be able to fit on the paper such as it only shows the first through third floor these are some differences between the two maps. These are my thoughts on the field trip to the MET.

CTE EXPO Reflection Journal

Brian Velazquez                                                                                                                        2/14/17


    The CTE Expo was an event for the CTE academy's including Web Design, and Video to show the new freshman in the school all about the academy's and what the students will do in the academy if they choose to join it. It is important because it will help the freshman to view new classes they might be intrigued in and they can also learn skills they will acquire if they join the academy they chose. What happened during the CTE Expo of 2017 was each period a freshman class will come and visit the CTE class so they can learn about it, students in the CTE class participated in the event by talking to the freshman and sharing their own experiences in the class to them.

   One thing that went wrong in the CTE Expo was that some of the students in the academy were not engaging to talk to more of the freshman. This probably happened because some of the freshman were not interested in the academy and ignored the students who were trying to tell them about the academy. What went right during the Expo was that we were prepared we had all of are work out including the boards we made and even the seniors and juniors showed their work in the computers. We were also all well dressed for the expo to show we are professional. The CTE Expo helps me personally because it gives more confidence to try things that make me feel uncomfortable, it also helps me apart of the web design team because it shows I need to try new things.