Peer review #2

This week for our reading task, we had to provide peer review to our classmates for the second time this semester. We also had to read a journal about the advantages of peer review. 


We had to read a journal about the advantages of peer review for learning. I found the journal really interesting, as students ended up learning more by giving feedback rather than getting feedback. Personally, I find the process of peer review really helpful in every phase, but I do find it interesting that giving feedback is better than getting feedback for the majority of the students surveyed. 


Giving feedback is a difficult yet necessary process for me. I find it hard to critique people, especially my peers. I find it even harder to reach the word count without running out of what to say as well, but at the end of the day, I think positive feedback is important too.


If I could find anything to be improved on in each blog, I made sure to mention it by using the sparks method. I made my feedback as actionable as possible, giving ways my classmates could improve their blogs. I found the acronym helpful for giving better and clearer feedback to my classmates. 


I also found it helpful to read the blog posts as they helped me to better understand the topics we had already covered, it was kind of like revision without really feeling like it. I managed to understand little things about the videos we watched that I didn’t understand before.


Overall, I found the peer feedback process a little bit hard like before, but I can tell I benefited from it both by reading the blogs, giving feedback to my classmates and using the SPARK method.



Image by Mohammed_Hassan on Pixabay

References: 

Media Ethics by Kailan: https://kailanp.blogspot.com/2021/11/media-ethics.html

Production Process by Kate O Toole: https://themediablog1.blogspot.com/2021/10/production-process.html?showComment=1637149043131#c5041038974800491458


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