Working in a group for my service learning project was a great experience, especially working with Cody, Liz and Stephen. They have taught me a lot about cellular respiration. We had to break down the steps and stages of cellular respiration. This was a huge challenge for me because I did not really understand what was going on during all the stages but my group helped me out a lot. I finally understood all the stages for the most part but once the final animation is done it will be a lot easier to get the different stages. We had to read off parts for the animation which was difficult with some of the words that we used in it. This helped me gain speaking skills which can help me greatly in my future. Another thing I got out of this service learning project was working as a team. It is not always easy to work with a few people to all agree on what to say or what the animation should look like. Our group did an excellent job working together and everyone put the same amount of effort into it. I also learned how to help with the animation on the computer. I have worked on the computer with photo shop and doing some videos in high school, but this was a lot different. Once I got the hang of how to make a tally screen it went by pretty fast. Once we complete our project we will send it to some high school teachers, some our old ones and some high schools around here. We might even send it out to all the college professors to see if they can use it. We are going to also put it on YouTube for anyone to view it or use it. Overall, this service learning project was a good idea because everyone had different ideas where they could help out the community. Some were interacting with people or animals and some were making something to inform the community about. I learned a lot more than I thought I would have by doing a project like this one because I am pretty good working with people but I am not that good at putting things together. I thought the animation of cellular respiration was a difficult task to work on but we could do it and hopefully it will benefit many people in the future.
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Stephanie- That's great that you learned so much about cellular respiration! I would be lying if I said I knew much about it, which probably isn't good being a biology major! I know that it wasn't the completely finished product that we were shown today in lab, but the animation looked great and I think it will really help other kids learn the cycles! Great job!
That sounds like a pretty interesting project. I had no idea that your group and your were doing this. Cellular respiration is definitly difficult to understand and on top of that make a movie about it, that must have been pretty hard. I would much like to see the end product, hopefully schools around here get to use. I am glad to here you had so much fun with this project.
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