Blog Post #3 – Answering Main Inquiry Question And Woking On Final Product

After thinking of a topic, coming up with my main inquiry question, and my script, now I am working on my presentation. I chose a TED talk because I do not have a certain amount of time for each slide and I can repeat a picture more than once. In other words, I have more flexibility in my presentation than I would if I had chosen an ignite or movie. At first, I thought I was going to do an ignite but then I didn’t like how I did not have as much felxibility. 

The thing I enjoyed most about capstone would be putting my research together. For instance, it was fun to combine everything that I had learned about my topic. This is significant because it was exciting to put everything together. Also, I enjoyed writing my script because it did not take too much time since I knew what I wanted to talk about in my TED Talk. This shows that it was fun for me to combine everything.

I did not face as many challenges as I thought after the interview. To illustrate, I faced small challenges such as making small changes to my script. Some words could have been replaced or improved. Thus, the challenges were bigger than the interview because they were finding an interviewee last minute. This shows how I have not been facing as big of problems I did before. 

I am so excited to present my TED Talk but at first, I was very nervous. Coming closer to when I present, makes me less nervous because I don’t have as many deadlines. Overall, I am relieved that there is not as much to do but I am happy to present!

Link to Final Presentation: https://youtu.be/20l8lIZ4ftM

Capstone Blog Post #2 – Capstone Interview

I interviewed a person names Anwar Shah who is my dad’s friend. He lives in America and lives close to New York. He is an architect which fits nicely with my Capstone topic. I interviewed him because I thought that he could really help with some more information to help me learn more about my topic. If I had more information, then I would be able to have a longer presentation. When the class and I were told that we should find an interview, I was worried at first because I didn’t think I would find anyone that could help me. 

Then, I was worried that no one would want to do the interview if I even found someone. This shows how I was worried about my interview which was very important to this project. I secured the interview with the help of my dad because he had a friend that was an architect and let me interview him for my project. He called him to see how he was doing and then asked him and he said yes. I was so relieved that I didn’t have to find an interview. These are the questions I asked: 

 

  1. Have materials changed a lot since you first began in architecture?
  2. What are some important materials people use now?
  3. Do you know some key design changes?
  4. What are some popular design styles now?
  5. What would be the most important style now?
  6. Do you know some big differences in houses before and now?
  7. What would be the strongest material for houses?
  8. What would be the least popular design style today?
  9. What is the design process for building a home?
  10. Why do materials change over time?

 

The most interesting thing I learned after the interview would be how much people rely on technology. When people want technology in their homes, then it takes more time to  and that people really want the houses to be modern rather than a colonial style. 

I faced a few challenges which were: coming up with a topic, finding an interview because since I found one late. The last challenge was coming up with questions because I only had a short amount of time to come up with them.