The first thing I learned was that blogging is really helpful. Hearing feedback on your ideas is really great and really helpful. The comments I received were encouraging and actually motivated me to complete my project. I also liked commenting on others' blogs. It's fun to see how my peers are going, and how they're projects are coming along. I think the mandatory blog posts really helped me to stay on task and to be on top of things. It helped me not to procrastinate as much especially.
I also took away from this project that summarizing is important. When you focus on three objectives and an essential question, you gather a lot of information. However, I realized that when working on my poster board medium I have limited space. This is of coarse also metaphorical, as when I address an audience about my topic I only have their attention for a few minutes so I can't make my poster overflowing with info.
Primary sources were probably the hardest to put on my poster. I wanted to only include pictures as primary sources, but then I realized that I had to vary them because I wanted to stay extremely relevant to my topics and there were only so many pictures that did that. In the end, I used a picture of government propaganda and two bills.
In conclusion, I liked using my creativity and the help of my classmates to put my project together and think that this assignment effectively made me learn about history.
Totally agree with you that blogging to yourself is helpful. It has helped me out a ton and the feedback has been very good. I like how you chose to do a poster since they always turn out nice and kinda artsy, and again agree with you on the primary sources struggled a lot to find mine. The pictures will help break up the info which is another plus. Your creative so I am sure your presentation will be magnificent. now go study for that chem test!
ReplyDeleteThanks alec and yeah I am probs going during co as well for that chem test. Good luck to you too!
ReplyDeleteI completely agree. I'm the type of person that always leaves things until the last minute (like this blog post!), so the blogging definitely helped me keep my promise to myself to not procrastinate. There's nothing to blog about if you don't get any further in the project! I also agree about the summarizing. Picking and choosing pieces of information has never been my strong point, but this class has definitely given me a lot of practice that have helped me improve those skills.
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