Model Assembly Component 1: Discovering your Constituency Feedback

a. Something positive
• I was impressed with the interviews students pulled off in the short period of time.

b. Questions to consider
• Did all the information each student present help them answer the DQs?  
• Did your PowerPoint violate the rule of 3 on any of the slides?

c. What did work
• Many  of the PowerPoints included only photos taken by the students.  
• Interviews were useful in most presentations
• The title slides looked good and in most cases the reporter did the intro effectively
• Some groups cited their source as they presented
• Speaker notes in general were fine in most presentations and everybody made the 5 minute minimum

d. What didn't work
• Concluding a paper or a presentation is significant.  Saying you are done is not a conclusion.  How should you conclude?  There is debate on this question.  When I think of concluding, I think of a conclusion including these two parts.
(1) Summarizing the essential points
(2) Finding something of value for future use
• The source slide did not work out how I had hoped. For future presentations, I will be more consistent with the senior project stuff and have you talk about three sources during the presentations versus showing a slide at the end.  I saw this happen in this presentation when you all discussed your interview.  
• Not all groups used the rule of 3 (1/3 rule) and the speaker notes effectively
• Consider where you may stand in a classroom before presenting to make sure all students can hear and see you.
• Technology issues:  Check prior to school starting or the day before to make sure there are no issues.

e. Finding Value
• Remember your city!  Your job is to represent the interests of your city in future parts of the Model Assembly.    If necessary, continue to do research on your city as more questions are raised.
• The components build on each other and in the last component (Simulation), you are expected to use the 7 components before in this experience.  This is similar to how I had you work in groups of 6 or 7 at the end of the Xlandia problem and use all the information we learned from prior lessons in the one activity.