Evaluation!

__EVALUATION!__

__**The Project** __
**1. What area of study did you choose? Why?**  We chose to look at Peak Oil from a political, economical and social point of view. We were first interested in the political aspect of Peak Oil but we later found out that was interrelated to economical and social aspects as well. Thus, we chose to include all three in our mock project so that relevant information can be included in our project.

 **2. What did your groups hope to achieve? What was your proposed outcome?**  At first, we plan to summarise all our information and present it in the form of a documentary. However, after much consideration, we felt that a documentary is rather dull and wouldn’t be as interesting. Therefore, we gravitated towards a mockumentary, which is a combination of a documentary and a spoof- we believe it would be more appealing to our audience which is Secondary Learners.

 **3. How could you critically evaluate the success of your outcome?**  To evaluate our level of success, feedback is vital to enable us to identify areas of improvement. This includes handing out surveys and questionnaires to our audience so that we can gage the quality of our outcome.

 **4. What were your specific group roles and responsibilities? How did you organise this? Was the allocation effective?**  When we were researching on Peak Oil, we divided the contentious topic into several perspectives- personal, national, global and the future. Then, we were allocated a specific perspective to research on. For example, I was on in charge of National views. This ensures that we are working more efficiently as we are not focusing too much on one perspective, neglecting others. When it comes to planning for our Peak Oil mockumentary, we also had division of work. For example, Azzah and I were in charge of finding props and determining the setting of each scene of the video, while Nicole and Carlos wrote the script of the video. Of course, we did help each other out anyway. Outside of the Peak Oil topic, we also allocated roles. For instance, Nicole and I were responsible on updating the minutes and setting homework. Overall, our job allocation has helped us to lighten our workload and also complete our tasks on time.

 5. **Did your project have enough scope for every group member to play an active, full time part in the group work? How could you improve this?**  In each member of our group we have different skills. Since we were doing a mockumentary we decided to use our skills as an advantage for our project. Carlos is extremely skilled in using a camera, so we had him to look out and see which scenery we should use and what angles can we capture from. Then we had Bryan and Nicole to brainstorm on different ideas on how that storyboard should be. I then joined in a collaborated on a type of everyday like after peak oil, from there we all build up our ideas and generated them in a concept of being in the future without peak oil and how people adapt as survivors. We broke down into who was incharge in the personal, nationally, global and future perspective. We could have included Terry more into our activities and keep him interested in what we were actually doing. We could have given the job of doing the minutes for terry as he would have a responsibility in the group.

 6. **Was the workload manageable in the time frame given?**  For our group we did a lot of planning, I might even say we OVER PLANNED. We kept on having different ideas and areas to cover but we manage to narrow it down to our final outcome. I believe given our time frame we would manage to finish as we have already planned it out.

 7. **How effective were your minutes and agendas? How did they help you? How could you improve them?**  Our minutes and agenda helped us by seeing how we have progress in our work and helped us planned our project for us. They as well helped us to make our gantt charts as all of the evidence in our work is shown through our agenda.

__**<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Perspectives **__

**<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. How did you gather information and opinions/viewpoints from a personal, national/local and global perspective? ** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> On our own, we first researched about the different viewpoints from the required perspectives. We then sat together and discussed about what we found out. Although there were contradicting views of some perspectives, but we included in the general view of each perspectives. After that, after obtaining all the information required, we then split up the work and distributed a member of the team to be in charge of one perspectives. Eventhough one person is specifically assigned to one perspective, we still proof-read each other’s viewpoints and questioned each other were points of clarification were needed. In a way, this resembles peer-assessment in a group and this helped us greatly because in this way, we are already ensuring that enough and relevant information are added in the right perspectives in our project.

**<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. How did/ could you ensure you consider all these perspectives in your project? ** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> We were organised and made sure that each viewpoint was covered. We did it by listing down each of the different viewpoints under each perspectives (eg Global, personal, national, future) and in this way, it is highly unlikely to miss any of the perspectives out.

**<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Would your outcome need to be accompanied by some additional explanation or elaboration? ** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> No. This is because our information are presented in a light-hearted manner without compromising the amount of information that would be included in the mockumentary. This is because there is no point having a mockumentary when viewers would need to read/ view additional materials. This spoils and render the whole point of having a mockumentary useless. Thus, we ensured that enough information are included in our mockumentary by not setting a stringent time limit for our mockumentary.

**<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. How could you make sure you include cross-cultural views? ** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> We could do this by asking students from all over the world to tell us their views on peak oil. Perhaps learners from other country do not view this as a serious threat that might come into reality, or perhaps, in some of the other countries, they are considering that peak oil is inevitable and are already planning and taking different measures to ensure that living in the peak-oil world is not so bleak, as portrayed in scenario videos by National Geographic.