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| WHAT DID WE DO? WHAT'S NEW and CHANGED? (reflection and description of event / activity) |
EVIDENCE OF LEARNING (include artifacts, photos, videos, drawings, sketches) |
| Friday was a productive day for our group. Our group decided to solidify and improve upon our previously proposed project to create a play room at Hawken. Our group projected early in the day that a room at Hawken would increase creativity and stress relief for all students. We even made sure of this by finding proof of this fact online. Moving on from this our group decided we needed space to create and refine our presentation and pitch that we are going to give to the Harvard Professors. To find space and a quiet environment to practice in we entered the auditorium. We started by just having each of us complete a slide dedicated to some aspect of our project. These topics include origin, reasoning, and our details of our project. Our group finished our google presentation soon so we could practice presenting as soon as possible. We each took a turn presenting our individual slides to each other before giving advice and feedback to whoever needed it. We each had our own strengths and weaknesses during our presentation segments. However, during our group work we used each of our strong presentation skills to help our group members weak skills by giving advice, tips, and tricks. We ran through our presentation in bits and pieces to try and iron it out. After afternoon break we entered the class confident we could deliver our presentation well. However, as we put it all together for the teachers we realized how rough and unrefined it was. We needed to make some changes. We needed to focus the presentation on our pitch more than how we developed our idea in the first place. The content of our presentation was good, but our focus was lackluster. We needed to restructure our presentation. This is something we plan to work on moving forward. We have about 2 days to prefect our delivery and I'm confident our group can do just that before we land in Boston. | Link to our presentation   |
Responding to the last part of your reflection, I'm in accordance with the idea that our presentation needs to focus a bit more on our current idea. We spent a lot of time discussing how we got to our final idea, which is good, but unfortunately with only 6 minutes, we run out of time to discuss the body of our new project. Let's refine!
ReplyDeleteTo add on to what Mikhail has stated, I wasn't actually with the rest of my group when they were presenting to each other; I was busy writing up what I was going to say for my section. I regret not being able to finish quicker and practice with my teammates, but now we do know what areas we need to change after receiving feedback from our teachers. Even just a few minutes ago, we were discussing on Slack whether the play room should have ping-pong or not.
ReplyDeleteI think that our main problem on Friday was that we should have practiced our entire presentation front to back before presenting it to the class. I think that we then would have realized that it wasn't very fluid, and was very repetitive. Once we have gone over it, even just a few more times I believe that will drastically improve the quality of our presentation.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what Mikhail and Ashley have both touched on which is that we have to focus more on our current idea rather than our process. While I believe that we have to show our iteration and our creative process, I think that spending 3-4 minutes on our introduction, and on our process is too much.
ReplyDeleteTo add on to Mikhail's points, we also sent out a survey to the school regarding the desire to have a creative room. The responses were very positive and most people said that they both liked the idea and would use it often. This expanded our social interactions with the whole school, instead of just the teachers and classmates. Also, today we brought in beanbag chairs and other creative props to add to our creative space. This created a more comfortable environment.
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