Celebration of Student Writing

Prompt:

Write about your experiences at the Celebration of Student Writing. What kinds of presentations did you observe? What kind of range? What do you think is the added value or decreased value of large celebrations of peer writing?

This is the board I made for the Celebration of Student Writing. It was based on the research I did regarding muscle growth.

Response:

This Celebration of Student Writing was supposed to be more sustainable this semester, but I noticed that most people made boards as opposed to doing something electronic. A lot of the presentations were interactive as well and I noticed many people giving out candy as well. There was a huge variety of topics covered by students, from projects about multiple sclerosis to comic book characters.

Having a large celebration like this provides for a more relaxed environment in the way that people don’t pay much attention to your project as they do to their friends, but that is also a downfall considering the time and effort that went into doing the research and making the projects. Because people are there with a lot of people they know they are not likely to have the attention span to listen to you talk for seven minutes. Also, there were so many projects it was hard to decide which one to go to.

Preparing a five to seven minute long presentation really wasn't necessary. People would usually just come along and you would have a conversation about your topic as opposed to you spouting off information the whole time. Personally I liked it because I didn't have to give my presentation and it was a very lively environment but no one really even came over to see my project. Maybe it would help if the projects were sectioned off by topic (like medical projects in one area and psychological ones in another area and artistic ones in another area) so people could go to whatever area interests them. It was a fun experience to be around so many other people in my same writing course, I do think that there are a lot of issues with how the celebration is laid out.