What I learned...
This project was mostly about the Vietnam war not war in general. So I think it's a smaller perception of what war is really like on paper, documentaries, and music. The Vietnam war was the first war to be filmed by so many journalist. My class has read the Things We Carried, and it was interesting to the read the American soldiers perspective because they all talked about the sadness of a man going mad because of the fear of death constantly surrounding them, and sometimes what they had to do to stay alive or sane. My class also watched the Ken Bern's documentary and it was actually scary to think of how many Vietnamese died for their country, on both sides.
We learned about the rise and fall of Soviet Russia, from the book Animal Farm. Due to high similarities in the book and what happened for Russia.
What my class showed...
What my class did to show what they have learned is something like a museum of feelings. My class and another class worked together on five different rooms. I was assigned to a room that was called The Soldiers Emotions. I worked on a video about a veteran that my class and the other class interviewed together. I took his interview and used only the parts which I thought told the truth about the Vietnam war and himself. I will not put this video on my Digital Portfolio because I don't have his permission to do so. The video itself turned out to be one of the many man attractions to the exhibition. Many people did not want to leave the room and wanted to watch it again. We had to use guides so we have enough people going in and out. My room could have used some improvements. We had a tent for actors to act as soldiers acting depressed and also showing how bored they were when they weren't fighting on the battlefield. Last minute our leaders decided that we needed to act. None of us where prepared for that but we did our best.
The Strengths and Skills
I was focused on time management and I set my own time when I was working and when I was taking a break from the project. I was able to keep an open mind until my leaders made some last minute calls. What I didn't strengthen was my collaboration skills, that seems to be a big problem for me in the past and I feel the need to fix.
How this project helped my thinking
I was already thinking of these things of what the veterans felt during the Vietnam war and war in general. So What seemed to happened was that this project proved my thinking of what the soldiers felt like.