Final blog...for now.

IBWL – 20-Time Final Reflection                                        Name: Kylee Juday

Directions: Please answer the following questions in complete sentences. Be honest and specific. How you respond will not be “graded”; however the thorough and honest completion of the reflection will be worth a portion of your final exam score (see rubric). Turn in your typed responses by Friday, June 6^th. This reflection will help me evaluate your 20-time project and 20-time itself. You may want to use the ideas in this reflection for your final blog post and/or final lightning talk.

1.    What did you intend to accomplish with your 20time project? What did you actually accomplish with your 20time project? I intended to accomplish a book full of memories that I will be able to look back on, laugh, and reminisce. I accomplished some pages in my book but decided to keep the book more as a journal and add onto it every time I have a new memory that I want to remember.

2. Describe the impact of your project on yourself and others. How could you use what you learned to create a positive change in someone else or the community? This project make me realize that I am not getting any younger and I will have to figure out a way to remember the good times in the past. I could use this to promote scrap booking as a fun and creative way to keep one’s special memories safe.

3.    What roadblocks did you run into? What were the areas of the project that were more difficult than you expected them to be? The main trouble was time management. I wanted to be able to complete one page per week but that was hard to do with all the other things I had going on.

4. What new learning, if any, did you gain because of the roadblock? Did the roadblock give you new insight, change the course of the project, etc.? How? I didn’t really learn anything from the roadblock, but it changed my perspective on my scrapbook in deciding it to be a journal thing instead.

5.    Finish this sentence: The thing about this kind of learning that works best for me is…. I get to venture out and try new things that I want to do instead of having something boring that I don’t want to learn.

6.    Finish this sentence: The thing about this kind of learning that is a challenge for me is... being able to use the time wisely.

7.    Would you consider your project a success? A failure? Somewhere in between? Explain your answer. I consider it to be somewhere in between because I intended it to be something completely different, but I fell in love with the new idea that came to mind.

8.    Estimate how much time you spent on your 20-Time project per week: I’d say 1-2 hours per week.

9. How does what you did in 20-Time connect with the IB Learner Profile (see Moodle or Intro Packet for the IB Learner Profile qualities)? Discuss any and all qualities that apply. I think all apply.

10. How does what you did in 20-Time show relevant learning in your English class? Things that may apply: written communication, oral communication, collaboration, research skills, technology/digital media skills, reading skills, etc. It helped me a lot with my communication and creative skills.

11. What advice would you have for teachers who are doing 20-time projects in the future? What would you tell them that would make the project go more smoothly or more successfully? Maybe do the venue during school, like the senior projects.

12. What advice would you have for students who are doing a 20-time project in the future? What would you tell them that would make the project go more smoothly or more successfully? Choose your topic carefully. Make sure you will be able to keep up with it.

13.  Will you continue with your independent learning/creating beyond this class? Why or why not? Yes because I want to make this into a journal and add on my newer memories.

14.  Anything else you would like me to know? (optional) nopeJ