Q. 1) How challenging was this project for you?
Honesty, the Look @ Me Now project wasn't difficult at all. The only challenges arose when it came to creative thinking. A creative piece for example was the brainstorming for the write ups. When asked about certain events in my life that have had an impact on me, I'd hit a writers block because I wouldn't know which event to write about; there have been so many it's near impossible to pick one. Eventually I picked two events to write about. Besides most of the writers blocks with the creative bits, not much else proved to be a significant challenge to me. I did enjoy that though. I enjoyed easing into the year with a simple first project to get to know each other a little bit more. While it wasn't a challenge, I don't think a challenge would have bene hugely beneficial at that point.
Q. 2) WHAT WAS THE EASIEST PART OF THE PROJECT?
I don't feel like there was many parts in the project that were too much easier or too much more difficult than other parts. Perhaps if I had to pick one (which wouldn't be saying much considering how close all of it came in terms of difficulty), I would say that the writing was pretty simple. It was all pretty straight forward and not challenging to write about since I already knew of all the information I could put down. The questions were about our lives and such and there is no person who knows my life better than me. I've been living it as long as I've existed so I can say I am well suited to answer questions about it without a second thought.
Q. 3) HOW COMFORTABLE DID YOU FEEL DURING YOUR PRESENTATION?
I've known most of the students vaguely for almost as long as I first started going to High Tech back in 6th grade. I am moderately comfortable with all of the people in my immediate class so it wasn't much of an issue to go up and read a paper for them. Especially because the content I was sharing was something I think it would be fun for my peers to learn about me. To me, talking in front of a comfortable crowd is not a big deal to me. The best part I think was when the audience started laughing and for a moment, I felt interrupted because I really didn't see the humor in it myself, but the was probably because I was reading and not focusing on the exact meaning of the words. It was quite a confidence booster to have people laugh in a comfortable manner to allow me to know the wording was being well received. I didn't mind giving a presentation to everyone.
Q. 4) DID YOU RECEIVE FEEDBACK FROM ANYONE? WAS THE FEEDBACK HELPFUL?
I didn't get a whole lot of feedback, but the little bit I did get proved to be significant enough to not warrant further invitations to look over my paper. The feedback always seemed to be very specific, well intended, and helpful. I got feedback from one of my peers who was assigned to read my paper and was very thorough with their responses. It was specific and helpful as critique should be. I also got critique from Mrs. Howard which was also specific and helpful. Generally, I feel I did pretty well on my work considering I only got two rounds of critique on it.
Q. 5) DID YOU PROVIDE SPECIFIC AND HELPFUL FEEDBACK?
I was assigned to critique Cheyenne's writing and I feel like I did pretty well to make the feed back specific and I focused on the as opposed to the person. I spent a little extra time with the critique paper to make sure everything that I had written could be easily understood and translated into fixing the work. I didn't fully complete the critique paper, but with the time we had, I made sure that I put in as much detail as I could when it came to being helpful to the author.
Q. 6) DO YOU THINK YOU WERE ON TASK A MAJORITY OF THE TIME?
Yes and no to this question. I stayed on task almost the entire time when it came to construction and when I had figured out what to write. I feel I did very well with staying focused on my work instead of others or distractions. I am proud of myself in that respect. No one had to remind me to keep working and I made sure to be busy the whole period so I wouldn't have much homework to do if I hadn't completed what I needed to do in class. The "no" response to this question would be that when I came to a brief writer's block, I disassociated from the work and began to divide my attention around. That was quickly remedied when I got past my writer's block and knew what to write. When I knew what I was doing, I concentrated wholly on my work at hand. I blocked out or avoided most distractions that came my way.
Q. 7) WHAT GRADE DO YOU THINK YOU DESERVE AND WHY?
I used find this a bit of an awkward question and still do when it comes to long complicated projects; that's not the case for the Look @ Me Now project. Since it was all pretty straight forward, I didn't fall behind on any of it and produced what I believe to be quality work. I feel like I deserve an A in this project. I stayed on task almost the whole time, I got my work done quickly and efficiently while retaining quality standards, overall I didn't cause any problems, and I did exactly what was expected of us during the project. I am satisfied with the way my final product came out and with my presentation.
Q. 8) if you could change something about this project, what would it be?
Speaking honestly, this project was simple and straight forward. The largest challenge was with creativity and not much else. I really enjoyed this as a starter project to reintroduce us into school from the summer. I enjoyed this project and I don't think that I'd change anything. Everything was structured well and has a specific message we learned about figurative language.