EDU221StudentSampleReflection

Congratulations! You have completed and shared your sample of what your best student on a good day would create for a performance task for your unit. Now it's time to reflect on the experience.

1. Copy and paste the questions below into an email to send to Dr. Theresa (theresa.overall -- at -- maine.edu). Do not copy and paste any of these directions. 2. Using the font feature of your email, differentiate the questions from the answers so that it's visually easy to tell them apart (example: questions in bold, answers in plain text; questions in green, answers in blue . . . yes, feel free to get creative!). Make sure your responses are legible to these old eyes. :-) 3. Send the email by the deadline posted on the class wiki. Please make the subject line of the email: Student Sample Reflection

__**Questions:**__ 1. About how much time did you spend on this project including planning time? If you can break it down at all, that would be great (example: 3 hours writing the script, 4 hours taking photos and video, 7 hours editing, for a total of 14 hours).

2. In "the bigger scheme of things," when you consider how much you have to teach in a school year, is that amount of time reasonable for your students to invest in this project?

3. So far this semester you've worked with a partner and on a team and now by yourself. Compare and contrast these experiences for you when it comes to creativity.

4. So far this semester you've worked with a partner and on a team and now by yourself. Compare and contrast these experiences for you when it comes to using technology.

5. So far this semester you've worked with a partner and on a team and now by yourself. Compare and contrast these experiences for you when it comes to finishing the task.

6. Based on your experience in creating this product, what changes/improvements/edits do you plan to make of your expectations of your students on their performance task?

7. What were your frustrations and/or what problems did you run into as you made this sample? What will you do in the design of your unit to help prevent this for your students OR to provide support for your students so that they have a meaningful experience?

8. Consider the expression, "It's about the process, not the product." Reflect on your student sample product and the process that you went through in making it. Will your students be able to get as much learning out of the process as they do the product for your unit?

9. What else could Dr. Theresa have done to make this assignment more meaningful/appropriate?