Activity 11.6

Step 3: Showcasing Your Project

The goal of this showcase is to share your final products with your colleagues and to see their projects. You also give and receive feedback about the highlights of your project and areas in which you can improve.

Begin your showcase by sharing a brief summary of your project. When sharing your sample thinking tool project, first share the assessment and then present your sample to help your audience better understand and identify the learning objectives. Be sure to leave time at the end of your presentation for questions and feedback from your audience.

Follow these guidelines to ensure a successful showcase experience:

Presenting at the Showcase

• Share the general information for your prject (grade level, subject area, and so on) and provide a brief summary of the project.

• Highlight your project's Curriculum-Framing Questions as well as your project's targeted standards and objectives.

• Share your assessment plan and any assessments you created.

• Present your learner sample project(s) or provide the learner sample login information to your reviewers so they can access your thinking tool project(s).

• Use the Project Rubric and Showcase Feedback Form to help facilitate feedback.

• Be sure to leave time at the end of your presentation for questions and feedback from your audience.

Providing Feedback at the Showcase

• Use the prompts on the Showcase Feedback Form to guide your discussions. Focus on content, not just the ICT.

• Ask questions.

• Provide both positive feedback and specific suggestions on how to enhance the project and learner learning.

• Provide concrete examples in your comments—give specific examples of what is effective or specific ideas of how an area could be enhanced.

• Even if all participants do not have completely finished Project Portfolios, the feedback process is important and will still be valuable.

When providing feedback to a wiki showcase, you can use one of the following methods:

• Record your thoughts on a subpage in the presenter's wiki:
  1. Create a subpage with your name in the title (such as, Michael’s Feedback).
  2. Copy the text from the Showcase Feedback Form as a prompt.
  3. Paste the text into your subpage.
  4. Record your thoughts on the wiki subpage in response to the prompt.
  5. Save your subpage.
• Type your feedback into the Showcase Feedback Form document and then upload it to the presenter's wiki:
  1. Open the Showcase Feedback Form
  2. After you record your feedback, save the form as a new file with a unique name. Be sure to include your name in the filename (such as, Michael’s Feedback).
  3. Upload the document to the presenter's wiki.

   

Following the showcase, list ideas for revising your Project.

Next: Proceed to Activity 11.7