Peer Review (3/13/14)

Today in class I helped peer review several cyberfair projects from other schools to practice our peer reviewing skills. Studying these blogs from other schools allows us to see what steps we should take to make an excellent website for our presentation.


This is the first time I have done peer review, and we looked at two different projects, one in texas about health and good eating habits, and the second was in Missouri, and was about career awareness.

CT Eddins (2014 Project ID: 7641)
United States, Texas, McKinney
Teacher: Melani Sailer
2014 Category 4. Local Specialties
Project Narrative

Farmington Middle School (2014 Project ID: 7752)
United States, Missouri, Farmington
Teacher: Kate Dillon
2014 Category 3. Business and Community Organizations
Project Narrative


 We also looked at a project from Iran, about the rat problem in Tehran.

41. Farzanegan7 (2014 Project ID: 7651)
    Iran, Georgia, Tehran
    Teacher: Marzieh Abedi
    2014 Category 7. Environmental Awareness
    Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
    Project Narrative

Rancho Coastal Visit

 

Last Friday ( 3/7/14) our class went to Rancho Coastal Humane Society and did some community service, including cleaning the grounds of trash, cleaning windows, and picking up discarded dog toys. We worked from around 11 to 1:45, and also interviewed some of the staff. We recorded the interviews and took several pictures of us working along with pictures of the animals, and are currently being edited together by max.

CyberFair Planning Guide

CyberFair Connecting Youth Through Volunteerism

Global SchoolNet Project Planning Guide

Scope: Define and describe your project.

·      What are you trying to accomplish?

1. to volunteer at a local organization to fulfill part of my service learning requirements 
2. To publish my experience by creating a website

·      What is the story you are telling?
Helping the community and working with my classmates to put together a project for CyberFair.

·      How will you share it? (e.g. making live presentations, social media)
By putting it on a blog, and to record is with video or pictures

Time Management:

·      When does the project start and when is it over?
projects start January 30th 2014 and ends may 15th 2014 

·      What are the important milestones?
Feb 2/11/14 setting up blog
March 15th CyberFair projects are due 
April 1-15th peer review 
May 2014 project presentations

·      Estimate how much time you will spend each day working on your project.

I plan on spending 1-2 hours a day 

·      How will you log and track your activities?
use online blog

Resources Needed: What do you need to complete your project?

·      People
My fellow classmates
Class Teachers 
Staff at humane society 

·      Technology

computer

internet

Camera
Microphone 
phone

·      Other
transportation 

Risk Analysis: What could possibly go wrong and if it does, how will your handle it?
volunteer plans could fall apart - see if we can reschedule or do something else
Could get sick - See if we can reschedule event for after sickness passes

Evaluation: What is the significance of evaluation?
Help you improve your work and refine skills. 

·      Self Evaluation: How will you evaluate your own project?

I will judge my own project based on previous experiences and older projects. 

·      Peer Review: Are you familiar with the Peer Review process?
This is my first time doing peer review 

·      Teacher Evaluation: How will your teacher evaluate your project?
How the project ties in the the year's theme, layouts such as bibliography 

Time Management: Estimate how much time will be allocated to each of these elements.

Tasks		Entire Project	Weekly	Daily
Planning and preparing 2/7/14, Thought about project idea (3-4 hours) 2/8/14, Set up Cal Coast blog (.5 hour)

	1	10 min
Doing original research and collecting assets (e.g. images, videos, interviews)			2 hr	15 min
Telling the story (e.g. web, video, blog, narrative)			2-3 hr	30 min
Evaluating
Outreach and sharing
Other