End-of-Semester

The page includes information about the following;

  • Group Presentations  (one per group) – May 6th
  • Final Journal Submissions  – May 9th by 6pm (Adjusted by ASC)
  • Final Project Submission (one per group) – May 13th
  • Group-Authored Reflection Essay (one per group) – May 13th 
  • Individual Self Assessment Form – May 13th 
  • Course Evaluations and Extra Credit Opportunities  – May 6th & May 17th respectively
  • Also- Clips from, related to, and/or about The Fits (for those who might be interested)

(Informal) Presentations Due Next Week Thursday May 6th

  • Note:  Following each group’s presentation, we will spend about 5 minutes responding and giving feedback to the group.
  • Presentations MUST include
    • 5-7 minutes of content 
    • a description of your project 
    • participation from everyone in your group
    • some audio-visual share
    • You should plan to share some portion of your tool or draft of your tool with the class. — >One person from your group can share their screen and audio in order to present whatever visual and/or audio component of your project you’ve chosen to share.< —
  • Presentations CAN (but are not required to) include:
    • a slideshow presentation (i.e. PowerPoint, etc) Do so only if beneficial to your group. 
    • A link to your tool and/or presentation.
    • You can share a link in the chat.
    • A demo of your tool and/or an audience interaction component
    • Questions for the class
    • As part of your presentation, you can ask the class for feedback on a particular aspect.

Final Journal Assessment Due: Sunday May 9th by 6pm

For your final journal submission, you must submit the following THREE items:

  1. Completed Final Journal Assessment: Your thorough and thoughtful responses to the reflection questions in the “Final Journal Assessment” form.  This form will be posted a week before the journal is due (i.e. this Sunday, May 2nd at 5pm). [UPDATE 5/2: Final Journal Assessment Form posted at 6pm on 5/2/ Submission deadline accordingly extended by an hour to 5/9 at 6pm ].  You will be able to find these questions as a post under “discussion”; a post under “announcements”; as a link on the “syllabus” page; or by clicking here.  Please EMAIL your responses to the questions as a Word document.  
  2. Documentation of Journal: Please submit some evidence of your entire journal. That evidence could be a short video of you flipping through the journal. Or it could be a pdf or google drive of several still pictures.
  3. Featured Journal Entry: Please submit and/or indicate  the specific journal entry that you wish for m to read.  This entry should not be the same as your previous entry, and ideally this entry would come from the second half of the semester.  Note: If you submit your entire journal as a single document with pictures, you just need to make sure you indicate how I can locate the entry in the larger document. 

Final Project Due May Thursday May 13th

  • Each group must submit a copy (or access to a copy) of their finished project to me via email.
  • You may submit it as a text, video, or image file; or as a google drive link to such files; or as a link to another platform hosting your project.
  • If you have a google drive link or a link to another site hosting your project, you have the option to post the link to the class site in order to share your finished project with the resto of the class. 

Project Reflection Essay Due May 13th 

Each group should submit ONE group-authored reflection essay along with their educational tool.  

  • In terms of CONTENT, each group’s reflection essay should include the following three components:
    1. Description of your educational tool:  Your description should cover the What (is the tool? What are its properties?  What does it look, feel, sound like? ), Who (should use it);  When (should they use it);  Where (should they use it); How (should they use it) and Why (should they use it)
    2. Description of, and rationale for, the formal and content choices you made in designing this tool.  This section is a great place to 1) point out choices you think are especially effective and/or choices you think may not be readily apparent to the observer (or in this case, me).  2) Describe how your science research, history research, textual analysis, and other requirements shape and/or are integrated within the design of the educational tool.  Remember one element of your toll might satisfy multiple requirements.  
    3. Reflect on the limitations – I don’t expect you to have made a polished, ready to market, educational tool in just a few weeks.   (This class is not a design or market class.)  The project is about the process of thinking and noticing how trying to create and do can stimulate new ways of thinking through form and content.   Use the third section to discuss any possible limitations you notice about the prototype of your tool at this point.  Now that you’ve gotten all the pieces together, are their formal choices that aren’t working the way you thought they would? What might you change?  Is there any content that you realize should be added and/or cut? (i.e. Do you think that your audience will need more historical context?  Do you need an instructions page?)
  • In terms of FORMAT: each group’s reflection essay should be:
    • 2- 3 pages *
    • Double spaced- Times New Roman font style
    • 12 point font size
    • 1 inch margins on all sides
    • *TIP:  2- 3 pages doubled space (tip: 2-3 means you might not take up a whole 3rd page, but chances are if your presentation is formatted correctly and only takes up 2 pages, you have not been thorough enough.
  • Also Make Sure that your group’s essay is
    • Proofread and relatively free of typos and spelling errors.  ( All proper nouns, titles, and quotations must be accurate and properly formatted. ) 
    • Free of formatting filler (i.e. No titles, course or assignment information or anything else that takes up space in the body of the paper. If you wish to include such information, please do so on a separate cover page that will not count as part of your page count).  
    • Approved by the whole group (regardless of how you divide the labor)
    • Emailed to me as a Word document (please do not email PDF or GoogleDoc)

Self (and Group) Assessment Form​  Due Thursday, May 13th (with 24 hour grace period)​

  • Each student should submit their individually completed Self Assessment form
  • Please submit your thoughtful and thorough responses as a Word document.
  • This form will be available on the class site after classes end (i.e. next Friday, May 7th).  
  • You will be able to access this form  under “discussion”; under “announcements”; and as a link on the “syllabus” page. 

Course Evaluations and Extra Credit Opportunities Due 5/6 and 5/17 

  • Extra Credit 1:  Send me a screenshot that indicates you’ve completed the BC course evaluation for this course, and I will give you extra credit towards your participation grade. (Due by noon on Monday, May 17th).
  • Extra Credit 2:  Complete and submit the Course Feedback questionnaire before (the last) class on Thursday, May 6th, and I will give you extra credit towards your lowest scoring assignment.
    • The questionnaire was included as an attachment in the “End of the Semester To-Dos” email I sent.  
    •  Please submit your completed copy of the attached evaluation to Kathleen [You can find Kathleen’s email address in the “End-of-Semester To-dos!” email (along with the questionnaire form).
    • Make sure that your name does not appear in the file name nor in the body of the document.  
    • Kathleen will submit all the documents to me along with a separate list of the names of everyone who emailed her a completed survey.   I will assign extra credit to everyone’s name on that list.  

ALSO from The Fits

Thanks again, everyone for your patience with the technology difficulties. I’m sorry that once again the audio-visual didn’t share well.  Incase you are interested, here are links to the clips I showed in today’s class as well as a few bonus clips; a short interview with the director; an even shorter clip of an interview with the director (about shooting in one space); and the full length dubbed over version in Spanish.