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COURSE ELEMENTS for A GRADE
COURSE ELEMENTS for A GRADE
The documentation of your project is essential to your overall grade and experience in the class. It's important that you capture this process throughout the semester. You will be responsible for three overall elements that will need to be submitted for a grade and ultimately end up on one website page within this Hawken Fab Lab Website (Example).
The goal is that you can use this documentation as a way to populate your own professional portfolio for college or career opportunities.
Lots of great examples can be accessed on the - Fab Play Studio Intensives Page
1. Project Slide Show (100 points)
Frequent (almost daily) posts of what you are working on each day. (Example)
Complete your Project Slideshow with captions, labels, and mini-write ups for each slide.
Eventually, the first (front) slide should be a photo of your completed project. This would be the final, best, image of your project. This image should look “professional” and can be taken in a photo booth or in good lighting. They should be cropped to emphasize and provide focus on the final product. Enhance the images by adjusting the brightness and contrast through the formatting options of the image selected. An animation or GIF could be a bonus.
Crop and enhance any other photos and images in your slideshow to improve what the viewer sees. Make it look professional.
Add supporting process text to each slide. What did you do, learn, try, experiment with, etc.
Change all text to size 12 font, unless it is a tile.
Include supporting caption text (size 10) for photos to point out what you want the viewer to notice.
2. Design Process Summary Report (Example) (100 points)
Generate a new Google Document by making a copy of the template provided. Add the following sections to the document...
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Abstract: This will be placed next to a final image slide of your project. This should describe the “What” of your project. What did you do, make, invent, processes you have explored. Be concise and descriptive. Examples
Feature (Title) Slide - Presentation Cover Slide - this is the first thing that viewers will see when they click on your blog post.
Concept Slide - Conceptualize the Idea - You should prepare a concept piece that shows the time, thought, and energy you have to see this project through. In other words, convince me you can do this by preparing a document that shows some initial ideas, sketches, and photos to examples of similar work, instructions or tutorials you will follow, and a potential plan you will follow.
Initial Progress Slide
Breakthrough Slide - Focus on one breakthrough moment that really put you on track for this project
Midway Slide and written Reflection - What are your proposed initial next steps and what do you need to start planning to do to complete this project
TBD
Example: TEMPLATE
3. Final Project Reflection (100 points)
Working from your midway slide and reflection, revise to add new developments, details, and a final reflection. The Final reflection should include initial ideas, things you tried, challenges you worked through, machines you used and what you had to learn, and what you are most proud of. This should be a well-written final piece consisting of 3-4 paragraphs and concluding with final thoughts (that are not corny). Provide substance and detail in this writing. Talk about empowerment, the creative process, and what you learned about yourself. Not…” I’m a good painter and I’m happy with my work because I tried hard”. Think of where you started and all the little things that may have added up to get to a final piece. This is written evidence of learning that supports your physical project artifacts.
Additional Questions to help you reflect:
Lots of great examples can be accessed on the Fab Play Studio Intensives Page
What new skills have you learned because of the maker experience? Which existing skills did you practice? Which skills were most useful to you?
What are the most important learning moments you take with you from this maker experience?
Would you do this or a similar maker project again? Why or why not?
Has this maker experience changed you? If yes, how?
Describe what you have learned about yourself as a result of your maker experience.
What would you like to change about your maker experience?
What were the benefits from you participating in this making activity?
What surprised you the most during your maker experience?
What did you do that seemed to be effective?
What did you do that seemed to be ineffective?
What were the most difficult parts of the maker experience? Why?
What were the most satisfying parts of the maker experience? Why?
What personal characteristics made this maker experience successful for you?
Describe an awareness about a personal characteristic that has been enhanced by your maker experience.
How does the maker experience relate to your long-term goals?
How have you been challenged during the maker experience?
How do you feel about what you made? What parts of it do you particularly like? Dislike?
What lessons can you learn from the maker experience?
What positives can you take away from the maker experience?
How can you apply what you learned from maker experience in your life?
What advice would you give to someone else working on the maker activities?
What did you learn through this experience and how can you use it in the future?
Looking back on the maker experience, what two things stand out to you the most and why?
PORTFOLIOS
PORTFOLIOS
note: Mr. D is referencing the work from NUVU
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