Peer review week is over!

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This week was interesting to say the least, at first I sincerely thought doing the peer reviews would be a complete chore but I loved it! It was so nice to be able to compare my own work with my peers, to see where my marks were sitting, what the standards were and to be able to do a little self regulating. I found myself going through multiple websites and reviewing them in my head, assessing what I would change and what I could learn from, to benefit my website and grades. I feel like I turned the one week that was supposed to be me helping my peers to my peers helping me. A typical Paige thing to do!

The peers that reviewed my website were such a help, their comments were genuine and constructive, I thought there was little I could change on my website, yet there is so much a fresh perspective can bring to the table. I really found the peer reviews so helpful, it was and is such a good learning strategy. There were multiple things that I did not understand or even consider that my peers did, I can not stress how helpful the peer review truly was. It is something I would definitely incorporate into my future classroom. The biggest thing that affected me this week would be the fact that my peers could not actually contribute to my social media site which is the whole point of the assignment! When I was testing my instructions and the  social page I never got my boyfriend to contribute I simply just asked him to follow the instructions and see if they were accurate. Thank god for peer reviews! The problem was I had created a page and a page has a manager, which is me. Therefore only I could post, people could comment but not post. Someone referred me to make a Google + community and it was the best criticism ever! I raced home and immediately created a community, yet it was not that easy. This meant I had to edit my website, create a community, learn how to use it, make a new set of instructions and re-upload them. I was ropable to say the least!

The peer reviews not only helped with the assignment and blog part of task two, yet I found my group for task three and I discussing the quality of reviews we had gotten. The reviews were also five percent of task two which is not a lot yet could be the difference between a pass and a fail. A peer had reviewed my friends site but left no comments or criticism's, nothing at all! How is she meant to benefit from no feedback? Fortunately we verbally reviewed her website with her and she was able to incorporate our ideas and constructive feedback which in turn also benefited us by learning things we could take on board as mentioned earlier.

This week my group for task three and I met up in the library instead of our tutorial as this week was an online week. We devised our structure for task three, partly finished our contract, made a wiki and chose our teaching strand, lesson idea and the technology we will be using. I feel confident in my groups ability to do well and I am excited to move through this last assignment! Unfortunately one of our group members did not show up to our meeting which was not a great a start, yet it made us come to terms with what our repercussions might be if this were to be an on going thing which meant we were able to complete the consequence part of our contract. There is always a silver lining.

I am relieved/excited/nervous/stressed and thankful that I am now up to my final assignment for not only this unit but my other three too. We are officially in the fourth quarter, the end is near!

Blog you soon.