P O L P R A C T I C E P R E S E N T AT I O N
For those of you who don't know, POL stands for Presentation Of Learning where we reflect on what we learn through out the semester. Last semester, the first semester of 11th grade, we ended the year with a POL of what we learned through the whole semester and reflect upon each project. This semester we are reflecting on our documentaries, this unit took up practically the whole semester to complete and so many things tie into it; our POL's revolve around what we learned in the process of creating our documentaries. | Above is the itinerary of times when each of us had the time to asses and be assessed on the progress of our POL's. |
In class today we each had a time to practice our POL drafts. Each of us had a certain time to present in the little theater to Mr. Topf and one other group, where they would give us critical feedback on our presentation so we could build upon our ideas and create quality work.
Karen and I had part of our POL done, but we still needed a lot of structure to our presentation and time to put thought into what we wanted the audience to get out of what we presented. We hadn't realized what we were missing until we had started to present what we had. This practice was extremely useful because it made us realize that we needed a stronger and more focused theme. Our theme was present, but not constantly seen in the presentation, which is what we had to change. This presentation both has to be a balance between content and reflection on what we learned.
This practice was supposed to be a first run through of our presentation, instead, we used this time to explain how we were going to structure the POL. This was a big mistake we made: not balancing time between creating the POL and creating the documentary. We were more focused on the actual documentary, that we quickly ran out of time when the moment came to make our POL.
For the next time we make a POL I will be S U R E to have a very clear organization of how we want to present it and of what the theme is, having everything in the presentation to connect back to the theme.
For the next time we make a POL I will be S U R E to have a very clear organization of how we want to present it and of what the theme is, having everything in the presentation to connect back to the theme.
I wish we would have had more to actually present today, instead of just going over what we were going to cover in the future; it would have saved us time for not having to go back and re-structure our POL. But, we did take away a lot from the feedback we received, and now we have to apply it.