Blog 18 :Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?
What evidence can best be used to convince a jury beyond reasonable doubt.
2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
Fingerprints are the best piece of evidence because they are unique and simple and cost effective to process.
3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
Blood spatter is the best peice of evidence because it is unique and gives a time frame and details otherwise unobtainable.
4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
Murder
Suicide
Assult
5.  What printed source best supports your answer?
Blood Spatter sourcebook.
6.  What other source supports your answer?
Experience.
7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.
Blood spatter can show exactly how and when a crime happened.

Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  
The most important thing I learned from this interview is how important it is to know the instructor and outs of your case.2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?
I would say I have definitely been more direct in my current interviews now, opposed to my first interview.

Click HERE to listen to the interview.

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Blog 16: Independent Component 2 Approval

Please review the component contract in the senior project packet.   The Independent Component 2 is an opportunity for you to add a dimension of creativity and/or an additional outlet for research.  The goal of the component is for you to explore your answers in more depth.  On Friday, April 22, 2014, you will be turning in the following to your blog to prove completion of this component:

• Blog post answering specific questions posted by senior team
• Log of hours clearly delineated as Independent Component 2 on the senior project hours spreadsheet (with total number of hours included)
• Evidence of the 30 hours of work (e.g. transcript, essays, tests, art work, photographs) as digital artifacts   

For this blog post and approval, please answer the following questions.

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
I will be creating a mock crime scene of a domestic stabbing and suicide. This mock case will display how blood spatter is used to solve criminal cases. I will be working with Omar Orsornio, who will be photographing the process. Omar will also work to show how certain images can tell a story and emotionally influence an audience, a jury in this case. Blood spatter and photography are both used to tell stories.


2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
To display our 30 hours of work Omar Orsornio and I will provide photographs of the building of the crime scene and setting up equipment. We will also provide photographs of the actual processing of blood spatter and the stringing method.

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
It will help to display how blood spatter can be used as evidence to convince a jury of guilt. 


4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

Your answers to the questions should be supported with details and examples for the senior team to understand what you plan to do.   Once we review your Blog Post 16, your house teacher will discuss with you the approval of your plan.  If it is approved, please start working on it.  If it is not approved, your house teacher will explain why.  It is your job to address the concerns so you can get your component approved.  Additionally, any changes requested must be addressed to your house teacher well in advance of the completion date for full credit on the assignment.

Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) Write: “I, Jordan Banuelos, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 32 hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
• Forensic Files
  (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.
• (d) Explain what you completed.
• I saw 30 episodes of forensic files and wrote reports on each episode. The reports summarize the episodes and list off how the case was solved.     
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
  
• My work taught me how forensics is applied to cases in real life.
• Click HERE to view my reports on 30 Forensic Files Episodes.
• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 
• This component helped me understand how forensics is applied and used in real life cases.

Grading Criteria 

• Updated log in Senior Project Hours Link 
• Evidence of 30 hours of work 
• LIA submitted to blog

Lesson 2 Reflect

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
I would say I am most proud of my activity. I feel it really displayed how effective and simple fingerprints can be in identifying a suspect. My activity was very engaging with the audience and I received plenty of positive feedback.

2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE       P          AP       CR       NC
I feel I deserve a P.

     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.
I met all the requirements on the rubric.
3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
My activity did very well and my content was good too.
4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
I would Have made my power point more aesthetically pleasing, as well as not read off the board as much.


5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?
Blood spatter.