Reflecting and other information

Reflecting:

I feel that this project as a whole was a great learning process on how to research and to find new ways of getting the information that was needed for this project.  I had a lot of fun looking and reading about Hawaii and hoping that one day I can go and visit the sites that I mentioned in my project.  What I really liked about this project was that we had the freedom to choose whatever topic that we wanted to pick that would interest us the most.  It did make the project more fun and I was more interested in working on this project since this is a place that I have wanted to visit for awhile, instead of a teacher giving me a topic that I know nothing about or don't even care about.


Other information:


The four required elements that I used were:

1. Notetaking Tool - Diigo
2. Social Bookmarks - Delicious
3. Electronic Communication Tool -  ask-an-expert, tried it, but it did not work.
4. Productivity Tool - PowerPoint

I think that the next time I approach this project that i will start earlier on getting my resources and look through them so that I will not have a lot of the same information. That is the main problem that i encountered with this project is that I had a lot of good information, but it was all the same and did not realize it until I started to work on my final project.  Then I had to take more time to go back and re-look through the same information of sources that I looked in earlier to cut down on duplicating the same information.  Also I might narrow down my topic and focus on just on island instead of all of Hawaii because there was a lot of information about each of the 8 main islands that I was not able to cover because my presentation would have been way more than just 30 slides.

The main difference that I can see with personal inquiry as an adult and a child is the idea of setting goals and being able to make your own decisions.  As an adult you are your own boss, while when you are a child you have to do what your parents or guardians or even what teachers say and you are not really able to argue with them without getting into trouble.  When you are an adult you can see more of what you want for your future by what you want to study in college to what kind of job you want, where to live, who to marry and many other choices. While as a child, i feel that you get told exactly what to do and you have to do it, if you want to or not.  You basically have no choice to say yes as a child be to do the chore or whatever it is or you will probably get in trouble for not listening to doing what you were told or even asked to do.