The brainstorm of the faculty advisor lesson was led by Ryan. He went to the white board and wrote two categories: Faculty Advisor and Students. While Ryan was writing on the board, Ann was typing on the PowerPoint Slide. Ryan engaged the students by forcing them to be specific with their responses to the questions and asked students throughout the class to participate. The overall discussion went extremely well, and the students understood that they have a responsibility to be professional with their faculty advisors as well as faculty advisors need to be timely about their response. This is the list that the classroom came up with.
Faculty Advisors
• A little bit of constructive criticism in ways to make the project better
• Say comments in a nice way
• Give you helpful advice but not give strict direction (no spoon feeding)
• Responding in a timely manner
• Organization
• Know the status of the students project – Blogs!
Students
• Multiple examples of the project (current version)
• Have questions prepared
• Need to lead the advisors because the students know what is really going on
• First question should be the real big problem that you have
• Prepared a structured agenda for the meeting
• Organization
Before the students had to work, they all e-mailed Jesus their response “My favorite part of the senior capstone was…” For the rest of the period, the students worked in almost silence (wE!rD!)
Williams:
Williams is currently working on a version of the brochure for Medic, and expects to have a rough copy available before the advisor meeting in two weeks. During this class session, Williams worked with Kiki to help her on his brochure in addition to placing photos into his brochure, making sure everything was properly formatted.
Kiki:
Kiki is currently working on another brochure in advance for an event to be held within a few weeks. Originally, her internship group wanted a flyer to be posted around the Madison area. But due to the depth of information about the event, Kiki suggested a tri-fold brochure. Kiki plans on completing the brochure by the end of this class period, and when she meets with her advisor in two weeks Kiki will have a layout for the webpage in addition to several versions of various flyers and brochures. 
PaYing:
PaYing spent some of the class time on Facebook but for the most part was working the entire class period. PaYing is still having difficulties with how the yearbook should be. She is not very skilled at HTML and CSS and would have difficulties creating a website. Ann talked to PaYing about possibly doing a Facebook album instead. But after PaYing’s faculty advisor AJ discussed with PaYing about the time constraints, they have decided to create a clickable PowerPoint. PaYing took two permit tests today: Word and PowerPoint.Amanda:
Amanda is currently working on a new project for AHANA. She is making templates for papers they will be handing out to students of their organization during a resource fair. The papers will be gradually decreased in size by ¾ of an inch so that you see an array of heading labels. Next session, she will be meeting with the student organization leaders Tiffany and Jazzmyne. Ann previously e-mailed that group the brochure and flyer template. The organization loved the work and now wants to tie up some loose ends on the brochure.
Tenzin:
Tenzin is currently stuck on his game project, and therefore spent the majority of his time during the period working on what he would like to do for the Spring showcase. Tenzin is working on flashcards that match a word with a definition, but is having trouble having the match register using Actionscript. When Tenzin meets with Chou in two weeks, he will have a list of questions about Flash in gaming, which will include the matching problem.
Brenda, Alex and Pari:
Brenda is currently re-working on the PowerPoint logo. Kevin Doran, their faculty advisor gave specific comments about the color contrast between the title slide vs. the content slide. Previously, the title slide and the content slide had a very similar color even though it was green and yellow. Kevin advised Brenda to make the green PowerPoint background to be more drastic.
Pari is currently re-working the logo design. Kevin thought the shell vaguely resembled an alien. Ann and Pari searched online for the shell he was trying to recreate. Together, they found that his previous design was missing a section of the cell. Now he is working in Illustrator to fix his design. Brenda is aware of this change and knows she will also need to alter her Powerpoint background. Pari took two road tests today: Flash and Photoshop.Alex is re-working the brochure. Kevin suggested instead of using Publisher to use InDesign. Alex decided to use InDesign and he is starting over. Alex still needs to talk to Pari about contacting Susan about the content of the brochure.
Certification period went smoothly. The class was silent as students took road tests. Ann and Ryan graded the permit tests and road tests as they were submitted. Pari passed Flash and Photoshop. PaYing did not pass either of her Permit Tests. Ryan sent an e-mail to PaYing about re-taking the tests later in the semester after completion of her Senior Capstone project. Ryan also commented on the students blogs. All of the blogs were adequate but not excellent. The two students who need to completely re-write their blogs are Williams and Alex. New blog plans have been posted on the wiki.
No comments:
Post a Comment