Everyday you learn something new. Throughout doing the computers project I have found the style and design of the project extremely interesting. The design of of the projects seems like a blank canvas. There is a skeleton of an outline and then a way that we are supposed to do the project that is rapidly changing. When we were first introduced to this project we were supposed to create, a 2000 word research paper, embedded technology, 1 fiction novel relating to the theme, an expert review, and a final electronic presentation. I am confident we are not going to be doing a 2000 word research paper considering we only have 1 week and 2 more days left in this project and nobody has even thought of a research paper let alone attempted to write one. I also doubt we are doing an expert review, at least if we are then I'm going to be way behind. We seem to have incorporated the rest of the required items into the project design so far, but like I said before the design is a skeleton. Right now it is a shrunken skeleton without arms. I said before that the Media Triangle was missing something but I guess I wasn't really thinking of the Media Triangle, I was actually thinking of the project design itself. I feel these projects should be something bigger, for some reason they feel extremely small. I also think they need something to put all these artifacts, articles, and little bits of information together to somehow prove disprove or put more information behind your driving question. The information we find needs to be put to some kind of final conclusion for us to learn more. It also seems like our projects are too virtual. I am a very hands on kind of person and it feels like we cant touch any part of our project. Even if it is just a final analysis paper it is still somewhat physical. I think that we should have a final mini-project to summarize the rest of the elements from our projects, that way the people like me who want something physical can have it and the students who don't wouldn't have to make a physical project. I also think we should incorporate the expert review into the project, it sounded like it could be very interesting.
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You still will be incorporating all you've learned into your paper; we just haven't gotten there yet. This past week you have been analyzing your artifacts and articles which is necessary before you can write your conclusions. As for hands-on, that is completely up to you. We talked several times about action research- you could do a science experiment, build something, etc. as part of the exploration of your driving question.
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