Excel Map Reflection
Woohoo! I finally finished my Excel Map, and I think I did an above-and-beyond job with it. The guidelines were to have 20 letters of the alphabet on my map (I gave myself an evaluation of 5/5 points), to place my letters in an appropriate location on the map (4/5), to include an interesting, relevant, and original piece of data for each chapter (5/5), to bring the data to life with a picture, link, diagram, map, or something else (5/5), to explain why the data is an important part of Washington State’s history (5/5), to make the letter for each item stand out in some way (5/5), to use color to make the comments and map look nice (5/5), to organize the comments so that they pop up in an uncluttered way (5/5), to make it easy to tell which items relate to the chapters in the text (5/5), and to include some interactive ways of bringing the comments to life (5/5). We could also earn up to 10 points of extra credit by including additional items on my map, including a key, and doing something to make it stand out from others (9/10). I liked this project because it was very simple if you did a little bit of it each week. If I had slacked for most of the trimester and saved it all for the end, I would have probably not have done as well as I did. I didn’t like, however, that we had to make a blog post AND two comments in a 45-minute. I don’t do well when I am rushed. All in all, I believe I have passed my Washington State History Class! 
