Final IDU Reflection- Criteria D

Interdisciplinary learning is when you use your knowledge and skills from two different subjects and combine them together to create a good final product. As part of my Interdisciplinary learning we as Year 9 took our knowledge from the two subjects: IT and French, to create a website suitable for the Year 7's to use. I created a website where the Year 7's could come and learn three different topics that they might have or might not have learnt in school and the website that I created would help them boost their grades. This website is a useful invention that I created as the Year 7's in their free time could use this website to learn more French that could help them in school and it would be something similar to what they are already learning. The website that I created would help the Year 7 students because I included three different activities which were the Comprehension, Dialogue between two people and the vocabulary test which were the things that our teacher set us to do. We did these activities based on topics that the Year 7's would learn throughout the course of the year and they are all basic as the Year 7's are new to the language. The different topics were Family, Introducing Yourself and Classroom Objects and Colors. This website teaches them about these topics and they would be tested by the quizzes I created based on the topic each consisting of 10 questions that they would be able to do and it would help them for what they are doing in French class. I enjoyed most learning how to use wix which was the website I used to create my website and it was fun to see how it worked an how hard it is for people to put websites together. It was also fun to see that the website was online and published and that people would use something that I have created.  The challenging tasks that I encountered during this unit were deciding on the designs and the templates I would use to create the website and how I would make it look attractive and good and easy to use for the Year 7's. To improve my website further, I could have maybe added more activities if our French teacher had let us do that. I would also make sure that there would be more pictures. I would also make sure the quiz works properly and they are the correct quizzes for the people to answer in the end. The benefits of Interdisciplinary learning is that you can use your skills from two different subjects and you can create something really good in the end. The skills like creating a website in IT or writing text and making questions in French and you can put those two together to create something usable. The limitations of interdisciplinary learning is that if you are not able to do something in one subject than what you were planning to make for that subject would not happen. It happened to me during this unit because I wanted to add many activities on my website in IT but in French our teacher only allowed us to do 3 and we could only put those on our website. As an interdisciplinary learner I benefited a lot because I now know how the unit would work and now I know what my strengths are in both the subjects and now I know that in the future I need to make sure everything I plan to do would happen. This interdisciplinary unit helped me understand that you can link subjects together and study and use your knowledge and skills in both subjects to create an amazing final project.

Peer Evaluation- Caroline

I got peer evaluated by Caroline on my website and these are the scores out of 4 that I got for each different category. For the text on my website she gave me a 4 which means it was really good and it fitted the website. It also meant that the text and the background complemented each other and the text was visible and looked attractive to whoever saw it. She also gave me a 4 for the navigation in the website because she was easily able to guide herself through the website and it was easy for her to find the buttons and get to different pages and to get to whatever she wanted. The navigation buttons on my website were easy to follow and we easy to locate which meant that it was easy to navigate through the website. For the content on my website she gave me a 3/2 and there were two reasons behind it. The content on my website was good and it was regularly updated and is relevant to the site and the topics that the year 7's need to learn. The problem with the content was that it was a little confusing. It was confusing because the text and information that was there on the website did not link to the quizzes and the quiz did not load as quick as possible. I need to go back to the website and fix that which means I need to make sure the quiz works and none of the content is confusing to the students. She also gave me a 4 for the navigation orientation which was how I was able to make the navigation easy and what I did to make the navigation easy. She was able to determine location on all the pages of the website. Also for the links and roll overs she gave me a 4 because all the links that I included work and are easy to identify. Also all the rollovers that I included work. On the graphics I got a 3 because the graphics were related to the theme/purpose of the website, and they were of good quality and the student has interest or understanding but the palm trees are in the background and they do not relate to the topic so I am going to go back and put a background that relates to the purpose. For the principles of design I also got a 4 because all principals were applied consistently throughout the web site. For the professional look and feel I got a 3 because the web pages did have an attractive and usable layout and it was easy to locate all the important elements but on the last page with the over all vocabulary the pictures were not clear and the were photographed with my phone which is not professional and I need to change that. For the website I think I did quite well but I do need to make slight changes so that the student using it has no problem in any way to access the activities/ vocabulary and the whole website should relate to the theme so that the student is always attracted to it!

Peer Evaluation: Aanya

I am very happy with the Peer Evaluation that Aanya gave me because every single category meets the expectations and I got either a 3 or 4 in each one. For the text she gave me a 4 which means that the text and the background complement each other and the text and the background look together and it is easy for the student to read the text and it is also attractive at the same time. For navigation she also gave me a 4 because navigation buttons are easy to locate and follow which means it was easy for her to get around the different pages on the website and they were easy to find as well.  For the content she gave me a 3 which meant it was regularly updated content and is relevant to the site which means it is still French but I could have got a higher score with more activities on the website so there was more to do for the students. For the navigation orientation she gave e a 4 which means that she was able to determine location on all pages so that means if she wanted to go to another page from the page she was already in it was easy to go to the other pages. For links and rollover she gave me a 4 as well because all of the links and rollovers worked and were easy to identify and there were no problems with using the links or finding them. For the graphics she gave me a 3 because the graphics were related to the theme/purpose of the site and were of good quality as well as enhancing the reader interest or understanding but to improve the score I could have maybe added more colors to the website and also make sure the background and everything suited and matched the content. For principles of design she gave me a 4 because all principles were applied consistently throughout the website and everything follow the principles on each different page. For professional look and feel she gave me 3 because the web pages have an attractive and usable layout and is easy to locate all important elements but the problem was that on the last page the photos for the helpful vocabulary I took was from my phone which was mentioned in the other evaluation as well and next time for the website, I need to make sure I write out the words or take a more clear picture. I think this peer evaluation was very good and she gave me a few 3's and that's because of some small things that are missing or are not of good quality and I need to fix those mistakes.

Self Evaluation

For my website I was able to include every single thing that we had to include and I did it really well. The first things was the tasks and the three tasks that the French teacher had set us which is Comprehension, Dialogue, and Spelling are all on the website. They are each put on different pages of the website and they look very good and are all correct and are easy to use for the students. There are also buttons on the website which lead to the different pages of the website and there is a separate page for all the buttons for the different pages and there is also the task bar at the top which you can use to guide you through the different pages of the website. There are also hyperlinks on all the pages of the activities because on each page there had to be questions and I used a website online to create a quiz that including all the questions and I had to put the link onto the website. The homepage for my website is very good as it is relevant to the topic and it has pictures and colors that are also related to the topic. On the homepage there are also buttons with link that lead to different websites about facts of France. There are different boxes answering different questions for the students that they would want to know about the website. There are also quotes about the French language by famous people. There are also the other three pages which include all the content which are the three task that the French teacher set us to do and they are there on the website with the questions. There are pictures about the topic or France on each page of the website as well. There is a video explaining the vocabulary about the different topics that I had to embed from You tube and it explains the vocabulary the students need to know before they do the activity. Last but not least the website serves the purpose for the audience which is the Year 7's learning French and that is exactly what the website is made for.