Reflection

What grade would you assign yourself for each category?

	Exceeds Expectations 20-19	Meets Expectations 18-16	Approaches Expectations 15-13	Does Not Meet Expectations 12-1
Design		17
Knowledge	19
Application		17
Presentation		17
Process		18

TOTAL: 88

Strengths of your process or product	Weaknesses of your process or product
- pictures - sentences (structure) - verbs	- recordings - some conjugations  - simple

How did you apply the SLA core values to your project?

I used collaboration to practice saying the words on my slides and checking over each other's work.. I used presentation by using Keynote and recording everything that was on my slides. Which is presenting, just not in the typical way. I used inquiry because I asked questions to other students on how to format sentences, how to say certain things, and asking if they can check over my work.

What did you learn about Spanish through completing this project?

I learned about the past tense verbs. I knew about them before but, I couldn't ever memorize them, which I can do now. Also, I learned that ir and ser have the same conjugation for past tense. 

What did you change about your final project based on peer feedback?  What did you change based on Srta. G’s feedback?

I changed a lot of verbs because they were in the wrong order. I changed where I put some commas at and other punctuations.

If you had the opportunity to start your project all over again, how would you do it differently?

I would practice more on the pronunciation because I know those could be better. Also, I would do the project on a different application like, IMovie or IPhoto so I could add more effects and such.

Did you enjoy this project? Why or why not?

I did enjoy this project because I was able to see my friends' pictures from when they were younger. We got to have fun and laugh each other. While, we learned how to talk about the pictures in Spanish. 

Explain this project in your own words.  (the mission, etc.)

The mission of this project was to demonstrate what we learned from the previous lessons. We had to learn the past - tense verbs about our past summers. Also, we had to use the new adjectives, verbs, and locations that we learned to talk about our past summers.

How did you apply the SLA core values to your project?

Everything fell apart when it came to the recordings. It was really challenging for me to get it to sound right. Even when I thought it sounded right, I knew it was probably wrong. I just tried my best to make sure it was understandable.

MY VIDEO (: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12710501/photos%20of%20summer.key

​​This project was to show what you did over a summer in spanish. It was more then just explaining that you had fun but we showed it through pictures.

This project was basically about what we did this summer, and use what we have learned in class this quarter to express are experiences in the past tense. We had to find photo and explain who was in them, when they were taken, and where were you at. Then decide and make a project reflecting your descriptions of your work. 

Reflection

What grade would you assign yourself for each category?

	Exceeds Expectations 20-19	Meets Expectations 18-16	Approaches Expectations 15-13	Does Not Meet Expectations 12-1
Design		17
Knowledge		17
Application		17
Presentation		18
Process		18

TOTAL: 87

Strengths of your process or product	Weaknesses of your process or product
The descriptions were easy to do because they were of my family which makes it easier to explain. imovie helped me a lot to make my project look as good as it does. this was also similar to use.	Recording gave me some trouble, trying to make my speech clear and loud was the main difficulty for me.  Peer edits didn't help me as much I did some edits by myself. I think as a class we could do better on critiquing each others work.

How did you apply the SLA Core Values to your project?

Inquiry- we were questioned and we answered “Qué hice el verano pasado”

Research- we found pictures of the past figured out where and when they were taken.

Presentation- I used imovie, added pictures, and voiced over with garageband

Collaboration- we all critiqued all of our projects to make them better.

Reflection- I looked over what I've put out as a final project and feel like I've done a great job with the concept.

I learned to use the passed tense of some Spanish words (basically conjugated)

I also learned more uses of iMovie.

What I would do differently is go through and edit twice and make sure different eyes see my work, so it's not only me critiquing my work.

I did enjoy this project because of the process I felt it was a good beginning benchmark for the start of the year.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40722045/El%20Verano%20Pasado1.flv

Reflection

The point of this project is to learn how to pronounce spanish, and how to apply it in a creative way. In this project, the sla values were applied by my process, how I researched, then, how I presented it. I learned preterites, and how to pronounce them. At one point in the project, when I did the voice overs, everything just worked, which was very good. I would maybe add a few more pictures, or maybe even add more captions to the pictures. I very much enjoyed this project, because it did teach me a lot. 

I would just take a little longer to explain what exactly you want first next etc, I dont really feel like you explained that too well, or you could just get rid of that all together and just make a checklist that they could do in any order because in my opinion that just works so much better then just telling kids what to do when to do it on a creative project.

1. This project was intended to make us learn what people did during their previous summers while also practicing conjugations. 

3. I learned how to conjugate better in the past tense and about other people's summers.
4. I feel like I understood it really well from the get go. I feel like I moved forward a lot more once I sat down with my step dad to find pictures from previous summers.
5. I would look for more pictures of past summers and use a lot more descriptions.
6. I enjoyed this project a lot. It helped me learn something I wasn't very good at (past tense conjugations) and it felt like a good, and laid back way to help me learn spanish. 

In this project, we had to collect pictures from our summer and write captions to go with them in the past tense in spanish. The mission was to show that we have a firm understanding of past tense conjugation in spanish. 
I used the research part of the core values in this project when I needed to look up a word or conjugation. I used the inquiry value when i asked questions about this project. I used the collaboration part when I peer edited to improve my project. When I did the voiceover i used the presentation value. I am doing the refection part of the core values right now.
I learned about conjugation in the past tense for normal verbs and even some irregular verbs. I also learned more about imovie. 
If i could do anything differently, I would add more pictures.
I enjoyed this project because I got to look through pictures from past summers.