Peer reviews are not as easy as they seem. They are helpful to me to see things I might have missed because of the constant editing I do on my projects. Sometimes I feel I have reworded something so much that I lose some of what I set out to say. Having someone else read and critique my work from a fresh non-involved way may see my short comings and question it so I can correct them. That is the way I believe they should work but sometimes I think a reviewer is just looking for a small unimportant mistake to say they critiqued it. That usually makes me feel like it isn’t that helpful. Other times they don’t want to be a bad guy and just give a simple non helpful comment. It is good when they enjoy the project and you can tell by how relevant the comment is to something specific.
I tried to give constructive criticism and found out doing it online is not as easy as I thought it would be. First you are at the mercy of how the person is interpreting your words. You can’t put in a joke without it being misunderstood to lighten up a constructive criticism. Like a cookie critique say something nice, say what needs to be corrected, and then end with something nice. It is so much easier to be superficial but I don’t think I was.
I learn a lot from viewing other student’s projects. I enjoy seeing how they interpreted the projects instructions. I learn about different technology or techniques they used to create their projects. And this is always helpful in bettering my own work on future projects.
In critiquing others projects I learn how to be helpful without being harmful with my words. I also get to reflect on the project and its objectives. Again it is informative and interesting how someone else decided to complete the same project you did.
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