PART I: Two-Hour Presentation
(1) Two-Hour Presentation Student Assessment
I'd give myself a solid P because I met every single requirement of the two hour presentation contract, I knew my content, and I gave key examples while applying the content that I was teaching during my presentation. I also got some feedback from my peers and they told me that I am in the P+/AE range, but I feel like I have made a solid P.
(2) What are you most proud of in your 2 hour presentation and why?
The thing I am most proud of is presenting the certain situations and experiences that I went through during the whole process of doing my senior project. I felt really cool explaining and sharing what I did to get my articles posted, the process I took to actually getting hired for Hardtoast, and pretty much all the information I have acquired from the research and interviews I did. I am also proud of the fact I actually carried our the activities that I had planned originally and they actually worked out well.
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.
In the whole senior project, I felt that I did great on my research. I kept up with the research checks and got all these extra articles to help backup the content I taught in my 20 minute and 2 hour presentations. I also think I went about looking for service learning in such a great way. It not only allowed me to experience the whole publication process, but it allowed me to create a digital portfolio, to get my name out to the world, and it refreshed my love and passion for video games. The thing I could've done better was time and work management. In the beginning of second semester, I began to slack off and I fell behind in work such as the I-Search, the classwork we got, and all the pother projects we had going on. I almost exploded due to stress, but I got over it, sucked it up, and persevered. I could've stayed on top of my game the whole way through so I could've had a better and possibly clearer and more enhanced answer.
(4) What is your EQ and what is the best answer to your EQ?
EQ: What is most important for a games journalist to know in order to be successful?
My best answer is establishing a fan base because without having a fan base, the writer would have no element of feedback or support which is a key thing to becoming a successful games journalist. Also, establishing a fan base helps determine the content the writer includes in an article, the tone and structure of the actual piece, and it serves as the bridge to success and fame or failure.
(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?
So in the beginning, my original essential question was "What is most important for a games journalist to know?" and as the I-Search and Three Column came along, I had to add on the final piece, which is the conclusion. Now, the final EQ I had was "What is most important for a games journalist to know in order to be successful?" Originally, my best answer was leaning towards knowing your target audience. But as the time went on and the EQ change happened, I had to re-word my answers and my best answer went from knowing your target audience to establishing a fan base. So yes it changed to fit the wording of and the general message of my essential question.
(6) What suggestions do you have in order to improve the senior project?
I actually believe that the senior project is fine as it is, except during the period of model assembly, you guys had us work on that and our senior project. Sure, the whole point of this year is to challenge ourselves, but prioritizing those two is just outright difficult. I know I had trouble prioritizing and my time working on senior project drastically so I had trouble in the long run in completing both projects.
Overall, on the whole senior project, I feel that I deserve an AE because I got a total of about 82 articles and I used them all in providing content for my two hour presentation. I also set up two places for service learning, one oriented toward the journalism aspect and the other geared towards the gaming aspect. It was a hard process to just setup those positions and opportunities so I feel very proud of that. Also, on all the components, I gave it my all and in the end, that was evident according to most of my peers. So just doing all the components on time, giving them my all, going through and giving the effort in setting up my service learning, and finally just keeping myself applied throughout the whole year deserves a solid AE.
