Friday, 29 May 2009

Reflection Process Journal Day 41 (28-5-09)

I had a good day today in the Multimedia Lab. I am just 50 words above the word limit now after a great period in wich I cut nearly 300 words. I am hopefull that by the last final day on Sunday I will have my essay within the word limit and will be able to hand in a good essay. I think I can still improve on today's work by worrying less when it comes to facing a problem, in my case the problem of being over the word limit, but by thinking of solutions and working at the same time, instead of just sitting there and worrying.

Tuesday, 26 May 2009

Reflection Process Journal Day 40 (26-5-09)

I think I worked well today. I had almost finished my bibliography and had cut out roughly 300 words from my essay in the multimedia lab. I think I have taken the a great step to finsih my editing, as I have roughly only 100 more words to cut, and I am very optamistic that I will be able to have my essay be within the word limit. I believe that the timing of my findings of what words to cut could not have been better as I was starting to think that I woukdn't be able to make my essay within the limit. I believe this leaves me with little room for improvement, and a great reason to look forward to the final lesson for our essay.

Monday, 25 May 2009

Reflection Process Journal Day 39 (25-5-09)

I think I worked moderately today, I continued my editing process and by the day I am finding it harder and harder to cut out the words as I am starting to figure out how I can still cut roughly 400 words and still keep the vital information in my essay. I had asked Mr.Sparks to show me a few ways to cut out words and still keep the information, and it did prove to help a little. He shown me a way to cut out the "did not"s into "didn't"s, "can not"s into "can't"s and some other ways to make sentances smaller and eventually cut out a lot of words. I am hoping that by the end of the project I will be able to have a excellent essay and be able to keep it within the limit.
I think there is lots of improvment needed, as I can make sure I can observe my essay carefully and be as miserly with my words as I can.

Reflection Process Journal Day 38 (24-5-09)

I think I worked well today. I had fully concentrated on my work and did behave badly throughout the class today, in the Multimedia Lab. I had finished my writing process with a staggering 2212 words, about 700 words over the limit! I then found myself starting big editing process as I needed to cut out 700 words, and still keep my essay rich with information. I had edited roughly 2-3 hundred words today by cutting out the excess information, but I find myself in a dilemma where I'll have cut out some of the important information. I think I can improve by continuing to try and find ways to keep my essay within the the word limit.

Sunday, 24 May 2009

Reflection Process Journal Day 37 (21-5-09)

I think I worked okay today. I had finally gone over the word limit in my essay in the class using laptops. I had managed to come up with a plan to how I would keep my essay within the word limit of 1500. by the ned of the day I finsihed with roughly 1650 words, 150 words more than the limit. I had typed a lot during the lesson but at the same time I was pondering on how I could solve my problem. I had initially come upwith the idea of cutting out the additional parts of my very lengthy religion characteristic. I don't think there is anything new I can improve on but I that I should always keep my mind open to new ideas on how I can solve my problems in class.

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Reflection Process Journal Day 36 (19-5-09)

I think I worked well today, though I was worried at times. I belive I had no behaivor issues today. I had managed to write about 300 words to take my overall word count to 1309 today in the multimedia lab, but I have noticed that I am starting to get very worried over my word limit issues. This is because I still have to write the majority of my last characteristic aswell as my concluding paragraphs within 200 words. I dicided that I would cut and edit a lot of the parts of the essay once I had finished writing what I called the "first draft". Apart from some of the dillemas I was facing I belive my lesson went by smootly and managed to type my essay well, and thoroughly go through my note cards. I think that I can improve on today's lesson by worrying less and getting the job done, and editing when finished, becuase I think that worrying will only slow me down whilst working.

Reflection Process Journal Day 35 (18-5-09)

I think I worked moderately well today. I had just comeback from my school Space camp trip to Turkey and I had lost track a little on what I was doing on my essay. But fortunatly Mr.Sparks had kindly given us the period to reorganize and get to familiarize with our note cards again. I think that letting us (the students) familiarize with our work has made a difference to how we will continue to write our essay, as it will allow us to further understand our work and let us have a better understanding of what work is done, and what will be done next. Towards the end of the lesson, I had finally started to write more in my essay, though I had only managed to write about 100 words. I think that I don't need to improve anything in today's lesson, because I didn't really face any problems to improve on during the lesson.

Monday, 18 May 2009

Reflection Process Journal Day 34 (7-5-09)

I think I worked well today, even though I had some dilemmas throughout the lesson. I had managed to write roughly 500 words in my essay today, a fact I am happy about. But I am starting to get a little worried on how I will be able to fit one and half charcteristics and concluding paragraphs in 500 words left within the word limit for my essay. I had worked carefully throughout the lesson, reading through note cards and writing about them. But I belive I can improve in one area; my planning, as the today I have noticed that I write a few paragraphs but only to waste time in rearranging and cutting parts away from them. I think that if I plan out each and every paragraph, my writing progress will go a lot smoother.

Sunday, 3 May 2009

Reflection Process Journal Day 33 (5-5-09)

I think I worked well today I managed to write 400 words today, which takes my total word count for my essay upto 672. I think I worked very well today because I behaved well and managed to write quite a lot. I didn't have many problems when writing my essay, I had done what I had told myself before and read through the note cards before I wrote about them. But I am growing a bit concerned to how many words my religion charactaristic will take up as I do have a limit of how many words I can use. I will be hoping I can finish the religion charcateristic by the time the word count reaches 800-850, so that I can have 600 words to write about my two other charcacteristic; government & law and social class, as well as my concluding
paragraph(s). I think I can still improve though predicting ahead of how I should manage my amount of words and who I can fit the things I wish to write within the boundries I was set.

Reflection Process Journal Day 32 (4-5-09)

I think I worked very well today in the MultiMedia Lab. As soon as I sat down beside a computor and logged in, I immediately read through my plan and begun writing my essay. I didn't talk to any one through the whole lesson, I fact that I am proud of. I did stumble at times through my essay, especially when writing a paragraph and deciding to write a new paragraph before it. I had often found that when I had written about 1 or 2 note cards in paragraph, I had found that the next note card had information that would fit before the paragraph I had just written. I also had some tough times when deciding whether to improvise on the information or copying the summary I had written on the note cards. apart from some of the minor problems I had faced during the lesson, i think that I worked well today and had already written 257 words by the end of the period. I think I can still improve though, by reading a few note cards before writing about them, so that I can understand and plan where which piece of information would fit best.

Reflection Process Journal Day 31 (3-5-09)

I think I worked perfectly well today. We had to plan out our research essay today , and I believe I did a good job of that. I had written many of the points that I wished to have in my essay onto my plan. I constructed my plan well, as it was thorough, but also listed many points I needed to put in my essay. I think that I didn't waste any time in today's lesson, subsequently allowing to finish my plan in time. I think I worked perfectly today, I didn't talk, or distract anyone today. I don't think there was any thing to improve on today's lesson.

Reflection Process Journal Day 30 (30-4-09)

I think I worked okay in our last day for research in the MultiMedia Labs. I had made only 1 note card, but I feel that what I had done was okay, as I wasn't finding suitable information through out most of the period. Not finding the right information was frustrating for me which did effect my behaivor a but I found that once I had started to find the information I was looking for, particularly when I started to read through the Ancient Greek page on the site "wikipedia.org". I think I can improve on this lesson even though we won't do the same research in humanaties though. I believe that if I don't give up when searching for information, I will, eventually, find what I need.