PART I: Two-Hour Presentation
(1) Two-Hour Presentation Student Assessment
I think I deserve a P+ because I not only met time requirements but I answered my EQ with detail. My activities also made the students actually use my answers in a hands on way. My talking skills however weren't very good. I was stumbling and talking fast and not speaking very well in general.
(2) What are you most proud of in your 2 hour presentation and why?
I am post proud of my answers. I think I answered my EQ really well and through my activities I showed that the answers do work for nature photography.
PART II: Overall Senior Project Experience
(3) What do you think you did well on in the project? What could you have done better? Please explain.
I think I did well with my isearch and my creative expression, both of those worked out well for me and I got good grades on them. I wish I hadn't procrastinated so much and put this as my priority, and I wish I hadn't taken on so much this year. I was really stressed out and freaking out about everything.
(4) What is your EQ and what is the best answer to your EQ?
What is the best way to take a good nature photograph? The best way is lighting. It sets the mood and tone and makes the photograph. You could have the most expensive, best quality equipment and really interesting composition, but if the lighting sucks and doesn't portray and get the message you want across, the photo is not going to be good.
(5) How has the last month of culminating events (e.g I-Search, Two-Hour, Exit etc) affected your answer to your EQ? Has it changed? Why or why not?
It really changed my answers. After talking to teachers about my answers I realized one of them didn't work and I have to completely change it. It was frustrating and difficult because it was so last minute and I had to change everything.
(6) What suggestions do you have in order to improve the senior project?
I believe the teachers need to be on the same page. Its frustrating that all the teachers grade differently so you can't go to another teacher for help. All the students get mixed ideas of what is going on because each house does it differently. I think if the teachers did everything the same, it would be a lot easier on the students.
I also think that advisory meeting should start earlier. I was kind of upset to have to change my answer so late and have to change everything so late in the year. If I had talked to someone sooner, and known that my answer wasn't good, it would have been easier.
Lastly, its difficult to make the project your own when there are so many things you can't do. And when the teachers change our EQ's its harder because we aren't going what we want, we are doing what the teacher wants us to do with a topic they may not know much about. I don't know how to improve that, but its hard to make a project your own when it isn't really.
(7) Overall Senior Project Assessment
I think I deserve a P because I did what was asked of me and I learned a lot about my topic. My answers did answer my EQ and all the work I did through out the year did help me in some way, whether it was personal or senior project related.
