Lodin+E

=MYP C=

=Teamsports=

Reflection for teamsport unit
There were several good aspects and negative aspects during this unit and they will be discussed during this reflection.

Positve Aspects
There were allot of positive apsects in the unit and in the final assignment. One of the general positive aspects was that we learnt how to work in groups as well as learnt about the importance of warming up. These were the aspects that I believe went the best during this unit. The assesement went also pretty well, even if there were some problems (explained in the negative aspects). The positive aspects of the assesement was that we had all of the basic aspects in the warming up. During the final warming with the class we also tried to include all of the people and discussed what we were doing.

Negative Aspects
Allong with the positive aspects, there were also some negative. The major problems came during the assesement. The major problem here was that we hadn't read the assesemt criteria well enough and there were several aspects that we didn't include in our warm up. One of these aspects was that we didn't discuss why we warm up. This took away a lot of marks on our grading. We also did a little to har warm up so allot of the people became too tired. This showed that we hadn't thought to much about the level of fitness of the performes (MYP C and D). Personally I also think that I didn't ask the teacher enough about how I could improove and this was reflected in the results.

Changes for next time
There are a few aspects I would change for next time. The most obvious one is that I would be much more carefull on thegrading and do **all** of the aspects that ensure myself and my group to get a better grade. I would also try to ask more questions and be more active. I would also practise the assignment more before the due date.

How could you apply this unit somewhere else?
There are sevarall places where I could apply this unit. Firstly in all of the teamsports I will be doing, as I I will here benefit from my experience in working in groups. Another aspect that I can take into the future is our warm-ups. Firstly we learnt allot of new warm ups and learnt which parts of the body it helps. This can help allot if I am assigned in the future to do a warm up. I also learn a little handball, something which might also be usefull in the future.

What the teacher could have done better?
I am quite happy with what Mr. Richard did during this unit, but I would have liked to get the sheet for the final assignment earlier and a quick view before we started the unit. On the other hand I was happy with everything else.

Who could benefit from my performance?
There are several people that could benefit from my performance. If I become a coach in the future or help others with sports I can benefit from my experinece in warm ups. I could also help if I would show the warmups we had learnt to other people.

=Cycling= The seccond unit is about cycling. It is going to be a short unit and my hroup members are: Andreas, Morgan and Thomas Henrik. Morgan will be the team leader. The assignment task will be to create a performance on the bycicle. I found this video on youtube and I thought it might give us some ideas: Cycling Formation Video Today we started the cycling unit. We started the unit by talking what we had to do. We then started to do our movements. It went well, but I had big problems with doing sharp turins and this slowed the group a little down in the progress.
 * ===28th October===

11th November
Today we continued with our cycling unit. We now have aproximately 1 minute and 10 seconds of mooves, and everything seems to go after the plan. I no loger have problems with sharp turns and progress was faster today.

18th November
We are now ready to perform and we did this infront of Mr Richard. We then looked at the video and found out that it looked quite good, but more practice is needed to get a better flow. We also looked at the other groups performances and found out that ours wasn't too bad after all. Happy with todays progress.

25th November
Today we started the lesson by practising what our secuence. We then had to peform our sequence. I was a little scared that I would mess it all up, but everything went as we had planned. The only aspect that went a little wrong was that I was a little slow on the last moove. || ====== ||

What went good?
In our performance there was one aspect that went very well, and this was that we had a good set of mooves, and this shows, as it can always be seen that the mooves are good, and this gives quite a profesional view on the group. The mooves were also not to simple and you had to be co-ordinated inorder to manage them, and this happened verywell since we managed to go throughout the whole performance only with minor problems.

What went bad?
The major problem with our performance was that the ending of the performance. I came much to late compared to Andreas, as I was suposed to come at the same time as him. I also think that the end wasn't as impressive as it should have been, and we could maybe have changed it a little.

Another aspect that we could have improoved we have been to go a little faster, but since we had one minute and twenty seconds of performance at our speed, we would then also have to get another set of mooves for the performance.

What were the difficulties and how did you overcome these problems?
The major problems we had during this unit was to create good mooves and to remember them. I also had a problem doing sharp enough turns, to the mooves.
 * The first problem we tried to overcome was to create good mooves. We did this by experimenting, but this took allot of time. The variety was a big issue and we overcame this by trying new things out and being generally inventive.
 * The seccond problem was to remember the mooves. This was done by allot of practicing, as well as extra practice for people with specific problems within the mooves or the assemblance of mooves.
 * My personal problem during this unit was to know when to do turns and then perform them sharply. Inorder to get past this

How did the group work?
I think that the group worked very well together and that we always tried to help eachother. We always decided the decisions together and this made the group work. This was the most positive aspect about this whole unit and it was a pleasure to work with the other people in the group. Even though I thought at times that we could be working a little more productively, I was very happy about how we generally worked together. A big succsess! :-)

=Gymnastics Unit= In this unit we are going to have about gymnastics. In the beginning we just going to practice general skill, but as the unit develops, we are going to do a sequence. I have already tried my skills a few times this unit and I reccon it is going to bbe very difficult, although I think I'll enjoy it! :-) PS: The log starts when we decide to start creating our set of moves. My group consists of Andreas, Morgan, Thomas Henrik and me. On end section of this page you can see a link with a file with all of our moves we did in the performance. It can also be found here.

3/2/12
Today we started to do our plan for the performance. We have started with some good steps, but it it not going fast enough. We will probably have to work after school or in Lunch one of these days. The first part is good as it links well together and it involves sheep jumping, as well as me standing on Morgan's back...

10/2/12
Today we continued with us working with the performance. We improved several aspects from the previous class and added a whole new set of moves. This includes us jumping over each other, log rolls and then using a balance. I hope it will be good, although I suspect we might be a little short on time. In the next lesson we will have to work super efficiently...

17/2/12
Today we did the final performance! It was very difficult since we were not completely finished with our performance and therefore had to work extremely hard to get it finished. We worked like maniacs, and in the end of the lesson we did the performance. I think that we did quite well although we messed up here and there. When this is said we actually only had to do one trial before we were happy with our performance. In the next section the reflection for the Gymnastics unit will be present.

What went good?
There were several aspects that went well during this unit. The first aspect I must say is how the final performance had different layers. This was an aspect that realy made our performance better as it gave different dimensions to the performance. This is very important in a perfromance dimension is very important or it tends to become quite dull. Another positive aspects was my endings and starts, as I think they were good and there were no real problems in that area. I also liked the start of the performance where Andreas and Morgan jumped over Thomas Henrik before I stood on Thomas Henrik's back. This was because it had a nice flow and looked generaly good (at least what I hope).

What went bad?
There were no-major aspects that were directly bad in the final preformance, even though there is one aspect I would like to point out: some of the mooves (especially in the end part) were quite simple and did not necceserily float nicely together. This might have made it look quite boring. I also think we could have a wider range of mooves inorder to make the performance more lively. Some of our mooves were also quite un-original, something which might have done with us not having got so many ideas in the first place. When this is said, these are just speial aspects which were not as good as they could have been, even though (in my oppinion) it was generaly a good performance.

What were the difficulties and how did you overcome these problems?
There were several difficulties we had to overcome. Here is a list of the major ones.
 * Time - The major difficulty we had was time. In the first lesson we got to work on our performance we decided to coninue practice general mooves. As a result of this, we did not have too much time to create our performance. Inorder to overcome this problem we worked extremely hard and efficiently, as well as talking together out of lessons what we could do as mooves. In the last lessons, especially the work was done at a short amount of time.
 * Management - Another problem we had was to decide who would take the leading role. Nobody wanted to do it and in the end we decided that everybody would do it.
 * Mooves - The last major problem was that we did not know what to do as mooves. Inorder to overcome this problem we tried several different things out, as well as looking at the other groups for ideas. We also had a quick look on youtube.

How did the group work?
The group worked very well together during this unit. At all times during the project we worked well together and we had no problems between the different members of the group. We worked efficiently and had fun at the same times, even though at a few stages there was a little too much fun and not enough work. Although this is stated, most of the time we worked very well. Very happy with the group work Moves done in the gymnastics performance Written by Lodin Group: Lodin, Morgan, Thomas Henrik and Andreas

Here you can see our movement composition:

=MYP D= =Cycling Trip Unit= Here is my cycling guide to come to Olavsberget. In the next section is my reflection. ==

Reflection
The first paragraph for each section will be for our trip and the second paragraph for the unit in general.

What went good?
There were a lot of things that went well during our trip. I was very worried about the time factor, something which could have gone bad. Another good aspect was that the area was very nice, especially for relaxing and chilling. It was also nice to get a swim, even if the water was a little cold :-P. In summer the camping would be open and have small shop, something which could have made the trip a little more enjoyable. The trip time wise was very good especially, taking in consideration the length, the cycling speed, etc: It was a good trip for a two lesson trip! The last positive aspect was to take with food, something which was good. :-)

The unit as a whole was very good. The aspect I really liked about it was that it allowed us to see the areas around the school. I had not seen one of the places we cycled to (except for Down Town). The safety aspect can also be useful when we are cycling in traffic alone. Cycling with the class is also quite fun. All the locations were fun and enjoyable (I especially liked the swimming and ice cream).

What went bad?
There was two things that was not successful with our trip. The first one was the weather (something we can not do something about). It was foggy, rainy and cold, something which was bad for the cycling and the swimming. The second is the season, since the water was quite cold, even if it was still possible to swim. Ideally, the trip would have taken place in summer. Personally I would have liked to have taken with extra clothes after the swimming, since I was FREEZING with capital letters. Most of these aspects could however been avoided, and in relation with the good aspects, the trip was generally fun and pleasurable.

The only bad aspect with the trip was that we in certain cases did not have enough time to shower and change, even though this was not always the case. Except for the weather, this was the only negative part. :-P

What would I like to change next time?
Form my own trip the aspect have been stated in the previous sections with the clothes and weather.

There is not much I would like to change except for two things: changing time and trip description assignment. The changing/showering has already been discussed. the reason for why I would have liked to do the assignment before the trip was so that we would have had a bigger Idea of where we were going. I know this because I had absolutely none! I also think it is important to do all of the positive aspects of the unit again, since these aspects made the unit very successful.

Can I map my cycle, so others can follow?
My easy answer would be yes. When I did the trip to Olavsberget, people did not have a problem following me. When this is said, I could have trained my mapping skills more, since I did have some problems. Luckily Martha was there to confirm the directions. When this is said I would say yes. This is an aspect I have improved due to this unit.