Reflecting on the process

Towards the end of my research I decided to reflect on my progress - what worked, what didn't and what could be done better (what to change for next time).


What did not work.

1. The class of students that did the survey where not the best or most reflective. They mostly did one liners or just a few words.
2. The learning activity needs to be broadened to included for guided inquiry. This will be looked at in term 4 with time for planning.
3. The choice of media made it hard to come up with research that involved that subject.

What did work.

1. Some students became very involved in the process.
2. The use of guided inquiry in the essay as a point of topic.

What to change for next time.

1. Ensure the task has been altered to included guided inquiry.
2. Ensure students go through ISP model.
3. Try to get more feedback from Mandy regarding assignments.

Assignment 2

After procrastinating a bit, I started to focus on my assignment, I went back through and fixed up the literature review and I started on the method and results.

I ended up emailing Mandy with a draft of my part B as I felt very daunted by the results section of the assingment. I pretty much didn't know how to present my ideas or sum them up. This comes under the presentation section of the ISP model, as I have to put the information that I have gathered together and analyse it. So to ensure that I was on the right track I emailed Mandy my assignment up to date to try to get a better read as to if my assignment is correct. I still feel daunted by it but I believe that once I get my draft back from her I will have a greater understanding of my direction.

Assignment 2 starting

I thought I should blog before I start.

For the next two weeks, I am on holidays. :) During this time my aim is to complete both my uni assignments. Firstly I'm going to attack this assignment. I feel a little bit hesitant about going through the assignment process because I have been rather slack lately. Last term was rather hectic during school so after I submitted Assignment one, I got rather sick, became slack with my uni work and chilled out by playing my nintendo wii. So all in all, nothing much was accomplished.

I feel daunted because I have to fix up assignment one majorly. I'm not so worried about the examination of the data, because that should be relatively easy as my students were rather slack and didn't usually write more than one sentence - if they even wrote a sentence.

Reflecting

After spending quite a bit of time finding resources for my assignment and finally handing in the part A (work in progress) I had a bit of time to reflect on my process. Looking back at it, I realise now that I actually went through the ISP model.

My first feelings of this project was uncertainty. After finally deciding to use my year 9 media class as the guinea pigs, I felt I had a bit of direction and this made me optomistic. Then however once I started to try to get my head around the task, and once I started to research generally on the topic, I started to become frustrated with the lack of information on the databases and internet. I could not access the library due to it being more than a 2 hr flight to Brisbane or any major centre. In my mind I started to doubt whether I could finish this on time. I spent hours and hours trying to find information, always seeming to search using the same criteria.

After posting my draft - and yes, it was a very rough draft, I felt that Mandy (unit co-ordinator) would be able to give me more direction, and help out with the focus of the assignment. I felt that there were some parts that should be expanded but then it would go over the word limit. I felt frustrated because I really believed that the theoriest behind guided inquiry were important to the process. Needless to say I ended up cutting them out. With Mandy's help I ended up refocusing my assignment. Once that was done, finding resources seemed so easy. All that was left to do was to put it together and present the Part A.

I felt a sense of achievement when I handed in Part A. In the time leading up the submission of that piece I felt as though I had more of an understanding each time I corrected and redirected the discussion. I know that there is still a bit to go with the reflection and assessment of the SLIM questionnaire but at the same time I feel satisfied that I can cope with this.