Judgement day

Evaluating a text can be very difficult, but if you know exactly what you are doing then it could be a breeze. I however, don't know the depth of writing an evaluation. When doing our peer reviews I would comment on what was good and maybe a few minor things that could have been improved, but when I saw something that I didn't like I felt bad saying it. Even though it's constructive criticism, I still felt like I was going to degrade their work when I'm sure they worked really hard. When somebody evaluates my work I try not to get offeneded because I know in the end it's going to help me out and I like to know what I need to do to improve it. But sometimes I just don't like hearing that something is wrong with what I did. To effectively write an evaluation of something it's important to discuss the subject but very briefly, just enough so the audience gets the gist of it. You need to be knowledgable about your subject and define your criteria in which you are evaluating. Also, never like or dislike what you are writing about. Be fair with your evaluation, mention the positives and the negatives. I think this chapter will really help me when writing my evaluation because now I know what needs to be included. The only hard part is actually understanding the movie I'm supposed to evaluate.

Good Work

We had our conference last week and it went really well. It was the first time I saw the video and I'm really happy with how it turned out, it looks really good. The only thing we had left to do was figure out what we wanted to talk about during our presentation and who would say what. We assigned specific points to talk about for each person and all put in ideas about what would be said. We didn't write it word for word but just some main things to cover and everybody can say what they want. I feel really confident about our presentation and I think it will go really smoothly. We all know what's going on and what we need to do.