I want to start by saying that I absolutely loved everyone's projects. I think that everyone did a fantastic job with them. It was so nice to take a little trip back into my literary history. I expected that many of us would have some of the same books and TV shows in our presentations, but it was also interesting to see the differences between them as well. This was something that I really enjoyed putting together and perhaps when I have a little more free time I will improve it to use in my classroom one day. I think this is a project students could be eager about, as so many of us obviously were.
I wish I was a little more technologically advanced. I would have liked to use a program other than PowerPoint, but that would not have been an easy task for me. I think part of the reason I enjoyed putting it together was because it was simple.
I actually had a lot of fun interviewing my mom before I started collecting images. She remembered so many stories we read together that I had completely forgotten about. It seemed to me that she had a lot of fun with this project too, and she was excited to see it when I was finished. I give my mom most of the credit for starting me on reading becasue she read to me everynight and was always buying me books. I could cry and whine in WalMart because she wouldn't buy me a Barbie, but she would always buy me a book.
There is one thing I wanted to comment on that I was a little disappointed in. I feel that I spent a great deal of time on this project, but I wasn't given an opportunity to share it the way I wanted because we were running out of time. I did not think this was very fair because those that went first got to explain everything they wanted in their presentations. Don't get me wrong I absolutely loved listening to every second of their presentations, but I would have loved to have been given the same courtesy. Instead I had to "move it along." Everything I planned to say and comment on pretty much went out the window, and I felt a little cheated. I don't feel that my presentation was anywhere near as good as it could have been the way I practiced.
Overall this was a fun project, and I am glad to have this little reflection of my literary life. It would be nice to keep adding to it in the future.
Stephanie
PS. Here is my movie related link www.rottentomatoes.com
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I completely agree with how fun this project was to do, and how everyone's presentations were so enjoyable to watch. But I also felt like some of the later people's presentation was an unfair representation of the work they put into the project because of the time constraints. I think it is so positive to have students do big projects like this, but when it is not initially specified that there will be a time limit, it is unfair to place one when the presentations begin taking up more time than expected. It really takes away from how I initially viewed the project, if this isn't worth enough to allow me to do my complete presentation, how is it worth all my time spent working on the project?
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