A couple months ago my teacher announced we were going to a capstone project. As you know from my last blog post I need to start writing an essay to answer my main inquiry question. Just in case you forgot, my main inquiry question is: What are the top 3 benefits of using social media during wartime?
After looking over my research I came to the conclusion that the top 3 benefits are: Fundraising, Winning Public Opinion, and Spreading Information. I was thinking of doing information instead of disinformation, but my Mom told me disinformation is stronger and has more evidence.
Writing my essay was tough because I was sick, and had to do it at home. Luckily my Mom was always there to help, just in case, I needed it. When I came back to school my teacher, helped me a lot, and I was happy with the final product.
Finding evidence wasn’t too hard. I had a lot of evidence in my research which was really helpful. My interviewee also taught me a lot about Fundraising on Facebook which was critical information that I needed.
Winning Public opinion was probably the easiest part of writing my essay. I had tons of supporting evidence which allowed me to form the paragraph.
Spreading Disinformation was probably the hardest part. I didn’t have too much research on it. But my mom saved me, she gave me a bunch of websites with a lot of evidence.
I spent all weekend finishing and revising my essay. After a lot of work, my teacher reviewed my essay and confirmed that I could start my script.
The script wasn’t too hard because I mainly based it on my essay. I did add some things from time to time just to make it more clear when talking to an audience.
Unfortunately when I timed it was a bit over, so I took out some things and talked a little bit faster.
Working on my slideshow was definitely harder than working on my script. I needed to find good-quality images in the correct size range. Not many photos on my topic were very big, but in the end, I found some.
Memorizing was not too hard, but once I memorized I sometimes forgot what I had to say, and kept looking up. Luckily I practiced a lot at home and I fixed my problem.
Overall capstone was really fun, I hope I do another project like this in middle school.