Goal:
The major goal in this process is to help you learn to learn while
allowing you to organize and direct your learning process. Once you become
comfortable with this process, you will be well prepared to perform self
directed investigation and study in the future, and to document your results.
| Investigation |
<---> |
Reflection |
<---> |
Experimentation |
| (Look it up) |
|
(Think about it) |
|
(Try it out) |
Weekly Product
You will create a new web page each week to hold your journal for the week.
The journal will contain a new entry for each day, broken down as follows:
- Day 1
-
Plan for the week. What do you plan to investigate? What do you plan to
try out? What do you plan to produce? Take 10 to 20 minutes at the start of
the week to write down what you plan to accomplish that week.
- Days 2 to 4
-
Record your progress. Take 10 to 15 minutes each day to write up what you
did that day. Look at your plan from Monday to keep your work aligned with
your goals.
- Day 5
-
Reflect on what you did. Take time at the end of class to reflect back on
what you accomplished this week. Did you meet your goals? Did work proceed as
you explected? Did unexpected things effect what you had planned to do? What
did you learn this week? What did you create?
Since you need to journal 5 times each week, if you are absent for any reason,
you need to make up the class time outside of class. Your completed
journal should be ready for weekly evaluation each Friday.
Evalution
Your progress will be evaluated each week and you will be given a grade
according to the following rubric:
- Exceeds expectaions (4 points):
- Work shows serious engagement with project goals together with concrete
evidence of significant progress toward attaining them. The journal entries
contain specific and detailed information about the project. Evidence of
Investigation <--> Reflection <--> Experimentation
throughout the week's work. Journal entries are made consistantly and provide on-going documentation of the project.
- Meets expectaions (3 points):
- Work shows engagement with project goals together with concrete evidence
of progress toward attaining them. The journal entries contain specific
information about the project. Evidence of
Investigation <--> Reflection <--> Experimentation in the
week's work. Journal entries provide essential documentation relevent to the
project.
- Partially meets expectaions (2 points):
- Work shows engagement with project goals together with evidence of
progress toward attaining them. The journal entries contain information
about the project. Some evidence of
Investigation <--> Reflection <--> Experimentation in the
week's work. Journal entries provide documentation relevent to the project.
- Needs to get in the game (1 point):
- A journal for the week was created, but there is little evidence of
project progress.
- Failed to make an appearance (0 points):
- Did not post journal for the week. No evidence of project progress.
