Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Project Feedback

A Look Back
Reflect upon your learning and the process.
Submit your response as an email to your teacher.
Your teacher will summarize the responses in a post.


I. Process
  1. Reflect upon the collaboration between you and your in-school partner. Describe your process for composing a unified response.
  2. Reflect on your interactions with the distance partner. Describe how the relationship was built and the social skills needed to be successful.
  3. Reflect on the project's alignment with your personality. Do you consider yourself an introvert or an extrovert? Are you an open person who is willing to share or are you a closed person, who prefers to guard knowledge? Are you a calm or an anxious person? How did these aspects of your personality impact the blogging experience?
  4. Reflect on the open conversations that occurred beyond the classroom walls - where ideas and opinions are shared by peers, rather than by teachers. Describe how this process generated more or less dialogue than a classroom setting.
  5. Reflect on the ability to compose your thoughts independent of time and place and to revisit your thoughts. Describe how this impacted the depth of your learning.


II. Learning - The Novel
  1. How did the interaction with another community broaden your understanding of social injustice, a major theme of To Kill A Mockingbird?
  2. How did you rectify answers you deemed inaccurate or inappropriate?
  3. Describe the development of your skills in expressing yourself in writing during this project.
  4. Review your blog posts. How did the repetition of the essential questions capture the changes in your thinking?


III. Final Thoughts
  1. Did you deem this project successful?
  2. What possible changes would you suggest?