Sarah_Evaluate

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 * __The four parts of the Technology Design Cycle pages + Portfolio Page:__**




 * __Introduction:__**

Finally, here is Evaluate, the LAST part of the Technology Design Cycle. During the lessons, we were required to write a reflection; answering at least one of the following questions from each section; minimum 3 questions altogether (bold questions are the ones I answered in the reflection):

//Setcion 1//- Your opinions:


 * **Are you happy with your finished work on this project? Why or why not? What would you change about your project if you could do it again?**
 * **Which parts of the project (Investigate, Plan, Create. Evaluate) did you like the best and which did you like the least? Why? What would you like to change about the project assignments if you were the teacher? Why?**
 * **What was the most important thing you learned during this project? How did you learn it? Why is it important?**

//Setcion 2//- Your Process:


 * How well did you work in class? Were you productive and on task? Why or why not? What would you change about your work performance on this project? Why?
 * **Did the Technology Design Cycle (Investigate, Plan, Create, Evaluate) help you organize and complete your project? Why or why not?**
 * **In which part of the project did you learn the most (Investigate, Plan, Create, Evaluate)? Why?**
 * **What were your strengths and weaknesses during this project? Why and how?**

//Section 3//- Your Progress:


 * **Which ESLR(s) do you think you achieved during the course of this project? How?**
 * How can you use the skills you learned during this project in the future? In other classes? As a university student? As an adult? Why would you use these skills and how would they help you?
 * **How did you grow as a learner during this project? Think about more than just the technology skills you learned.**


 * __ESLRs:__**

While and after I wrote the reflection to finish this whole project, I met a couple of ESLRs; a //Self-directed Learner// and //Academic Achiever//. Every time I wrote a word, I re-read and re-read to make changes. This means that I continually assessed, evaluated and adjusted work to maintain high standards (Great example of Academic Achiever). I also accepted responsibility for my own learning; demonstrated competency in goal setting, time management, and organizational skills; and monitored, adjusted and documented work in progress by finishing this assignment (homework) at home and handing it in on time.


 * __Reflection:__**

This quarter, we have worked hard to create unique e-cards, following the technology design cycle (TDC): Investigate, Plan. Create, and finally Evaluate. We have done some research, created a Tutorial, completed worksheets about tweens, and brainstormed our ideas into a mind map on Inspiration during the first part of the TDC; drew our scenes and layers on storyboards (Plan); and eventually created real products, e-cards during Create. Lastly, we have now moved on to writing a reflection for Evaluate portion of the TDC.

I personally enjoyed the Plan portion of the project, because it did not require any technological talents or skills as we just needed color pencils and our brains to transcript our thoughts and ideas onto the papers. On the other hand, the least enjoyable part of the TDC was Investigate, because I think research, brainstorm, and doing worksheets were not as fun as drawing (Plan) and creating animations (Create). However, it does not mean that Plan part was fun and Investigate part was boring; in fact, all parts of the project were enjoyable and entertaining. I tried tirelessly to make the best outcomes I could manage by reviewing all my work to edit any mistakes, to improve, and to make things perfect. As a result, I received high standards on the project, and thus I am VERY happy and satisfied to see the reflection of my hard work on my finished work. This means that I have been Self-directed Learner and Academic Achiever by accepting responsibility for my own learning and by continually assess, evaluate and adjust work to maintain high standards. If I could redo any part of this project, it would be the Planning part of the e-card animation project, because I had some hard times with technology due to the storyboard I made which was quite difficult for me to create as a beginner. However, I think it had worth something as I feel more confident of myself for being able to do something challenging. Of course, after completing such challenging tasks, I have learned many different things in which many were very important. The most important thing I learned during the project is how to create 4 different types of tweens: motion tween, shape tween, rotation, and color change. I feel that ability to create such tweens is the most important as the whole project was about animation and tweens are vital, most essential part of animation. I could learn those skills by referring to the worksheets I did in Investigate while creating the e-card, and by asking other students and Ms. Cofino for help. By doing so, I have achieved another ESLR, Critical Thinker, by solving problems using a variety of strategies.

Although, I can’t deny that I have learned SO MUCH in all parts of the Technology Design Cycle, I must admit that I have learned the most during the Create part of TDC. This is explained referring to the quote: ‘What I hear, I forget; What I see, I remember; What I do I understand- Confucius’. The following also explain why I have learned the most during the Create portion of the project: ‘We remember 10% of what we hear, 15% of what we see, 20% of what we hear and see, 60% of what we do, 80% of what is done actively with reflection, 90% of what we teach’. The Technology Design Cycle helped me to organize and complete this task, because without the cycle, I wouldn’t have known what to do first and what to do next. In other words, the TDC guided me and told me what it is I have to do before doing something else; for example, it would have been ridiculous if I had created the e-card even before I completed the worksheets and the storyboard. Also, the reflection parts at the end of each part of the TDC have helped me the most, as it helped me to think back to what I have done good and bad, what I have learned, what things I should have done for improvements. In a nutshell, TDC helped me to become a Self-directed Learner by guiding me to demonstrate competency in goal setting, time management, and organizational skills. These sentences lead me to the question of, ‘What were your strengths and weaknesses during this project? Why and how?’. With a great assistance from the reflections, my strengths were abilities to organize my work, monitor what I did, doing and will do, and to reflect my finished work. However, despite the positive effects of the TDC, my weakness was ‘lateness’. This is because I kept trying to perfect every single thing with great detail and perfection that I was not conscious ‘time’. For instance, in the very beginning of the quarter when we were doing a research, I tried to write every single sentence with a detail after it, and therefore I only managed to finish observing 2 e-cards while everyone else were done with about 4~6 e-cards. My strengths and weakness turned me into a confident Self-directed Learner, and yet a poor Self-directed Learner, because although I could demonstrate competency in organizational skills, I couldn’t demonstrate competency in time management.

In the beginning of the year, I was shocked to hear from Ms. Cofino that we would be working on the Flash Animation, because I was a pure beginner to use the Flash. However, I managed to learn as much as I could have imagined; step by step by walking through the Technology Design Cycle. As a learner, I did not only learn technology skills; I also learned how to cooperate with other people to achieve a group goal (during the Horizon Project feedback), to communicate with people for better ideas (while coming up with criteria as a class), and how to ask and answer questions respectfully with others. Most importantly, I learned how NOT to depend so much on my peers and teachers, but how to find the solutions by myself. Although I made references to the ESLRs throughout this reflection, I would like to add some more. The first ESLR that I achieved during this project is Critical Thinker. I was being a Critical Thinker during Create by using the finished worksheets and asking friends and Ms. Cofino when I had problems dealing with technological skills; by solving problems using a variety of strategies. Secondly, I was being an Academic Achiever by continually assessing, evaluating and adjusting work to maintain high standards by trying to correct mistakes, make improvements, turn every piece of work as good as possible, and by writing reflections after each part of the Technology Design Cycle. Thirdly, this entire project has made me an Effective Communicator as a whole as I incorporated and utilized technology as a tool for communication by creating this e-card as a tool to convey my message to someone else. Lastly, I have achieved to be a Self-directed Learner by using my in-class time wisely to complete the tasks, finish and hand in all my work on time, and by keep monitoring my work for organizational purposes; this means that I accepted responsibility for my own learning and demonstrated competency in goal setting, time management, and organizational skills.

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