Editing Open Source Studio (Spring 2026) (section)

==== Reflection on the Project -- Task 12 ====

See the [[User:Kaylea/Assessment | brief reflection rubric]] for details on my expectations in terms of the content of the reflection. A successful essay will do the following things:

# Use content and concepts from the course.
# Use evidence from your experience, your project, and the projects of others. Mention project names, commit IDs, line numbers, dates & times as appropriate.
# Cite your sources; these sources must be real, they must provide support for the statements associated with the citation, and they must be viewable by me. Note that AI tools are notorious for fabricating these and use of AI tools for this assignment is forbidden.
# Be 1200-1500 words. Note that there is a penalty for going over length and that references don't count in length limits; I'm not interested in nitpicking, but essays over 1600 words are particularly unfair to others. Essays under length won't receive a special penalty but are '''very''' unlikely to achieve the depth I am looking for.
# Do not use AI tools.

If you are not sure what to write, think about what happened in the project and choose some of these prompts as jumping off points (do '''not''' treat the following as questions to answer in order!). What kind of work did you end up doing, and how well did you do? Was the project easy or hard, which parts, how, and why? How did the analysis go, and what did you learn? Walk through each topic we covered. How did course concepts apply (or fail to apply) to the situations you faced in developing your project? Did anything surprise you or change your mind during the project? Did you experience any failures or problems? How did you solve them? Based on your experience, what is your advice for the students who take this course next? What did you learn about yourself and the ways you prefer to work? What did you learn from the presentations done by your fellow students? Did anything surprise you in the work from other groups?

Do not write in a long single paragraph or send me a list of bullets; instead, write a standard essay with an introduction, key points, and conclusion. Choose and use a formatting standard and stick to it (APA, Chicago, ACM, etc.). Use correct citation formatting for both your inline citations and your References section. Your essay should make liberal use of many kinds of evidence, including several course readings, lectures, and videos, as well as several commit IDs or other URLs with your specific experience. Do not use AI tools. Do use examples and evidence. This should be an essay that only you could write, because it's about specific events in your experience of the course.

;Turn in: a well-formatted essay via Canvas

;Due: Friday, June 12 at 11:59 p.m.