Brief

1. Self Directed Project (SDP) Reflection and Evaluation

Write an entry in your learning log (maximum 400 words, or a 3 minute A/V presentation), reflecting and evaluating what you’ve learned during this final section of the course.

• What have been the photographic challenges you have faced or overcome?
• What aspects do you feel you have most enjoyed, and where are your biggest achievements, or the areas where you feel you made the most progress?
• How did your critical review develop your analytical thinking?
• Which elements of your self-directed project were the most challenging, successful, or surprising?
• Which elements of the project failed? Why was that?
• Did you leave those elements behind or did you incorporate parts of the failure into your working methods to embrace the things you discovered?
• What themes have surfaced through peer and tutor feedback, and how have you responded to these?
• What genre conventions or innovations informed your individual project ideas and towards resolving your display or exhibition strategies, formats and decisions?
• How did your project 9 peer showcase presentation go? What did you learn and what or how might you alter or build further on this — either now or in future?
• Which aspects of your learning and creative practice you’d like to develop further in the next course unit.

Self Directed Project (SDP) Reflection and Evaluation (Link)

2. Reflecting on your wider learning in this unit 

Reflect on the whole unit journey you have taken (all 10 projects). Use the unit learning outcomes and assessment criteria as a guide (350 words or a 3 minute A/V presentation).

Students often find they learn something new about their studies by looking back in this way. It can encourage a deeper understanding of some of the more ambiguous aspects of learning and help you get a sense of what sort of learner you are.

At various points in the course you will have been checking your work against the Assessment Criteria (Stage Two) under three headings of Knowledge, Understanding and Application and the Unit’s Learning Outcomes (LOs) below. You can cross-reference these as a framework to evaluate where you would place yourself, and where you think your strengths and weaknesses are and areas to develop.

Reflecting on your wider learning in this unit (Link)

Project 10: Final SDP (Link)