1) Positive statement
- I'm most proud of the fact that I engaged my whole audience during my presentation. I've been to so many presentations that didn't engage their audience at all, but they were reacting and enjoying my presentation as much as I was enjoying giving it.
2) Questions to Consider
- To be honest, I would either give myself a high P or an AE for my two-hour presentation. It seemed to be engaging and I got a lot of interesting heroes for the activity. While my timing might have been off a bit (I do tend to ramble a little and that's something I'm working on), overall it was a very good presentation with well-thought out information.
- As for the overall grade for my senior project, I'd have to give myself a P. One of the reasons is because a lot of my work has been late and I'm not disputing that at all. However, the work that I do turn in (Research, interviews, etc.) no matter how late, have all been high quality. I had consistent AEs on my research as well as my interviews and I did my best with the other components as well. My only real issue was time.
3) What Worked?
- Being able to chose my own topic was really the thing that worked best for me. The teachers worked with me to keep the topic that I wanted, even if it wasn't very academic. It was fun to actually do a project that I wanted to do.
4) What Didn't Work?
- I feel like all of the deadlines were very sporatic. We would have a few weeks of not having any deadlines at all (or even just checks) and then everything would be due at once. Scheduling out these deadlines and projects is really what iPoly is about: each grade team works together to create a steady workload for the students. However, I don't think that was very well done this year, for whatever reason. That's the only thing that really didn't work for me.
5) Finding Values
- This project has been helpful in two ways. One way is that I know how to criticize myself. In all of the work that I did, from the Interviews to my iSearch and all of the other components, I figured out how to make my work better by looking at the faults. It's been something that I've really had trouble with in the past. One example of this is my science project. I had to reassess just the basic idea over three times to get it to a project that was half-way understandable. I can take this focus and this persistence into my future career (whatever it may be).
The second way is that I really worked on basic skills,such as designing and writing. I know that my iSearch was really difficult for me because I'm not really sure how to write a research report. While the iSearch wasn't a pure research report, it still demanded a different style or writing than I was used to. It was a little more formal than I have ever written before and that was difficult for me. Another aspect that helped in my designing was creating the powerpoint itself. I had never really created a powerpoint by myself before. Sure, there were group powerpoints and everything, but I had never really done one on my own, so creating the powerpoint for my two hour was... an enlightening experience and I'd like to say that I did a whole lot better than a lot of people out there. I made my powerpoint personal (with comic book page backgrounds and customized fonts) and I made it engaging, which is hard to say for a powerpoint, not matter what the topic is. I can definitely take that on to whatever I'm doing next, because in almost every career, there's a chance to create something; whether that creation is a powerpoint, template, brochure, whatever, everyone has to design and present something at sometime in teir career and I believe that I'm on my way to mastering that ability.