Blog 24: Last Presentation Reflection

1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?
     - I'm proud that I was able to make my time and not be nervous as possible, I was speaking too fast and ended up coming short and I took a deep breath to finish strong and handle myself.

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation?  Use the component contract to defend that assessment.

 P      I met all of the requirements and I feel like my performance was not above and beyond. An AE presentation is obvious and hits you when you see it, I feel like mine was not quite there.

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project? Use the component contract to defend that assessment.

AE   Completely based on the hours I spent coding, and the fact that I had to learn 4 languages just to make it happen. I feel like the difficulty of the workload is what justifies a higher grade.

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?
      - The flexible schedule worked, for me it gave me time to really put in the effort my project deserved.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project?
     - I would attend my mentor ship more often, I only completed 51 hours because I didn't know how to count my time on IC's that I spent with him. I feel like i could have learned more.
(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.
     -The senior project has given me a skillset that will carry me through college and allow me to succeed through my struggles and find a career. I knew nothing about coding going into Senior Year, and now I feel confident in my ability to achieve what I want in life because of what I know now.

Answer 2

 The most important step is profit

1.  What is your EQ?
    What is the most useful web application for all audiences, and how can those audiences be reached?
2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
    The most useful web application for all audiences is a weather application, and the way to reach all audiences is by having an all around solid product.
3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
    The most useful web application is a store application, and the way to reach all audiences is through google adsense. 
4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
     There is actually a store for everything including dinosaur poop
     All audiences benefit from Amazon.com, including children who don't even use the internet because of parents
     The second you search for something with google, that can be related to a reputable store, you receive tons of ads related to your search
5.  What printed source best supports your answer?
     McFarland, James. JavaScript and Jquery: the missing handbook.United States: O'Reilly, 2014. Print
6.  What other source supports your answer?
     Pash, Adam. "How to Build a Web Application from Scratch with No Experience." LifeHacker. Life Hacker, 13 Aug 2009. Web. 1 Feb 2016.
7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought. 
     The most useful web application is an application that sells a product, we live in a culture with values based in consumerism, on top of that, Google just about runs our lives.  
     

Lesson 2 Reflection

-It's really not easy trying to make this stuff interesting

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
    - For my lesson 2, I was most proud of finding a way to make programming interesting. As it is, speaking about computer languages without people dozing off is a hard hard task. And for me to get a couple laughs, that's unheard of for a programmer to do. Not only that but people actually took the activity seriously and had a good time with it, rather than using it as an opportunity to talk for a few minutes.
2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE/P

     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.
       Using the component contract and staring at the P requirements. But I feel like the activity and my conclusion is what solidified a grade higher than a P, the audience did what I have to sit and do for hours, in an abridged version, and had a great time. The conclusion with my answer put the whole presentation together and it just felt right.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
       My activity worked, the Keys to Success worked, and having Itzia help me worked.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
       Something I would have done differently is handed out printed examples to each table, but I don't have the kind of money for that much colored ink. Black and white on a handout looks not as presentable and very last minute. One more thing is I would have just snuck in more jokes to try and keep the presentation more engaging.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?
     Answer number 2 will most likely be a universal databasing app,available for all companies to use. And to get my product out there would be with investors.

Blog 11: Lesson 1 Reflection

 -My favorite part about my lesson

1. What are you most proud of in your lesson, and why?

     - In my lesson, I was very happy with the way that I was able to take my normal language that I use with my mentor, and break it down to a level my audience could understand. Not once did I see a face that looked lost, and it felt nice when my hook activity was deemed exemplary.

2. What assessment would you give yourself on your lesson? Explain why you earned that grade using evidence from the component contract.

     - We are graded on professionalism (Volume/Enunciation, Body language/Eye contact, and Engaged audience/ Content clarity) and justification of foundation (Clear research, One published source, mentorship or interview referenced, and research shows a 3 month process). For my lesson, I believe I deserve an AE-. I hit all of the points that earn a P and I also did a great job engaging the audience. I've had P presentations, and they're embarrassing to tread through. This presentation had high energy, I went for the high risk slight reward by bringing in my laptop, and I made sure to touch on all subjects I brought up. Countless presentations had the, "Thing 1, thing 2, thing 3, time to learn all three," but the first topic was only spoken about. I didn't leave any of the audience in the dust and I feel that if they were quizzed, they could score well. We were told no digital anything, and my topic deals with nothing physical, even with this obstacle I killed the presentation.

3. If you could go back, what would you change about your lesson?  How can you use that knowledge to give a better Lesson 2?

     - My hook activity was easy, however not obsolete because it set the tone for my lesson and taught the audience at the same time. If I could go back I'd add more examples of Frontend vs Backend for the audience to guess on, however the time constraint wouldn't allow that. I'd also not get nervous and forget to put my EQ under the doc cam, because it was printed and inches away from the viewing range. For lesson two I know that my hook can be harder for the audience, or more comical because that did get a good reaction, and to take a deep breath while I'm rushing to set up my presentation because time was much more lenient than I had imagined it to be.