You will write an ’exit ticket’ reflecting on where you started and where you’ve gotten to, and you will indicate how you feel you’ve done against the learning outcomes. You will be required to explicitly tie your exit ticket to evidence collected in your weekly work - link to documentation you’ve uploaded to your github repoistory (or repositories).
You will use the Exit Ticket to pull all the different strings together into a strong cord describing how your thinking has evolved and changed. Everyone’s journey is different. Digital methods are more a matter of practice and time than they are of aptitude. Your exit ticket will explicitly link (ie, literal hyperlinks) to the different pieces of work you have created and submitted over the duration of the course (the things you’ve uploaded to your repository), as supporting evidence of how your thought has evolved.
What does that look like?
This could be a written document. There’s no reason why it couldn’t be audio or video, or you could even create a static website showing off your different pieces of evidence (as in a portfolio). What makes sense for you? What best expresses YOUR journey?
I’m not looking for perfect. I’m looking for process.
If you’ve never done digital work before, it might be that you never quite manage to get as many of the tech things working as you might’ve wanted: but you now know what you didn’t know before. That’s a win. You tell me about that. You might be a computer science minor and the tech materials don’t present you with much challenge: but figuring out how to tell the compelling story was very difficult for you but you’re better at it now. Your ’exit ticket’ will explain to me your particular context, and it will point to the evidence that demonstrates how you’ve moved along from where you were at the beginning to where you are now. In both cases, you will reflect on the explicit learning outcomes of this course and use those to both structure your thoughts and suggest to me an overall grade for the course.
Grading
If I agree with your assessment, then that is the grade you will receive (thus, you have the opportunity to override the percentage breakdowns below).
When I have disagreed in previous courses this has been, 9.5 times out of 10, to raise the grade: y’all are too hard on yourselves. If I have disagreed and felt that you’ve overstated things - if you were the 0.5 out of 10 - I would explain this to you and grade accordingly. When I have received text that bears the hallmarks of LLM generation, I am deeply disappointed; I will contact you in this case to find out what’s up. If you do not respond, then I will have to assume my suspicion is correct and I will grade accordingly.
Remember There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ to what you write, but there is ‘better’ and ‘worse’ when it comes to explaining how your thinking has changed over time and pointing to the various things you’ve done that support that story.