Reflection Post Questions

1. What did you learn? I learned not only a lot about the titanic, and how it was built, many of its parts, and what they did, but i also learned about the people and brainpower that went into the titanic. Without computers and other technoligies we are privelaged to have today.
2. What was your research question? How was the Titanic built?
3. What was the answer to your research question? Our question can't be simply answered in one sentence..but if I had to, I would say that it was built in Belfast, and by many large pieces of equiptment that have become a site that is no longer used to build ships, but is visited as a landmark.
4. Did your final product answer that question? How? Yes, our final project answered this question. We built a very large model of the Titanic, that is made to scale, which enables everyone to see all of the parts, and we also blogged about it, so even if they don't get a chance to see our visual model, anyone can better understand how it was made. We used our visual as an aid to us, not to just sit there and explain all of the information. We researched many hours so that we could explain it, so it worked out how we wanted it to.
5. What did you do well on the project? We found all of the research, and shared it with eachother, so that we could both benefit from the sites that we found that we felt helped us.
6. What could you have improved on the project? At the beginning, blogging on the times they were supposed to be finished.
7. What would you change about what you did on the project? We could have finished the blogging earlier, to leave ourselves more time to figure out exactly how we wanted to do the final physical, visual part of the project.
8. What would you change about the assignment itself? I enjoyed this assignment because I got to choose a topic that I wanted to research, and something that interested me. Usually when a topic is assigned, the student doesn't learn as much, or as well.
9. What grade do you think you deserve on the project? I think that we desserve an a on this project, if we were being graded on the normal system. Why? We worked for many hours, and put a lot of effort into this project. The final project also looked very nice, and you could tell how hard we worked on it. It was a little difficult for us to make it perfectly to scale, since neither one of us had done something like it before. It also required that we figured out a lot of math before EVERY LINE we drew to make our model.