As part of your CyberFair Project Narrative you will document how your project addresses both the purpose and the theme of CyberFair.
PLEASE DO NOT WAIT!
The deadline for submitting BOTH
your Project Narrative and your final CyberFair project is midnight - on the
deadline date. Check the timeline for deadline dates.
An outstanding project narrative
will tell an interesting story about your project and its impact upon student learning and
within your community. It will clearly show how the project meets or exceeds objectives
for both the CyberFair contest and the category in which it's entered.
Teachers and students should work together
to complete the Project Narrative. Discuss each section with the students. Brainstorm
ideas and wording. Assign a small group of students to create a draft. Discuss their
draft with the group until the group reaches a consensus, and then have another group
complete this form. If time represents a problem the teacher may take the lead, but the
input and consensus of your students should be an integral part of the final completion of
this form.
- Defines Your Community
Your narrative defines your "community" and shows how your project brought this
community together to "share and unite" around a common goal. Your narrative
should clearly describe the project's contribution to both your local community and to the
global Internet community. Of course, the contents of your project web pages should
support the claims you make in the project narrative.
- Chronicles Your Project
The Project Narrative is a valuable chronicle of your project for your parents,
administrators, and members of your community to help them understand and appreciate your
efforts and accomplishments in putting this project together. The Project Narrative
"documents" the student learning that has occurred.
- Hyperlinks to Your Project
The Project Narrative page contains a hyperlink directly to your CyberFair project so that
visitors will understand the story behind the creation of your CyberFair project.
- Bibliography Required: You must now include a hyperlink
to your project bibliography where you should cite relevant sources for the information in your project.
In the past, the evaluation rubric addressed in a general way how well you cited your sources.
However, the rubric now requires that you have a specific bibliography page where you cite all of your
sources.
Former CyberFair teachers reported that
completing the Project Narrative was a valuable and worthwhile activity. This kind of
reflection and reporting will be a useful conclusion to your learning project. Many
schools have used the information in their Project Narratives to apply for grants and to
makes reports to their school boards and to the local media.
Important: The CyberFair Project Narrative must be submitted using the project narrative form. You may access the project narrative form in
your personal CyberFair Checklist.
Click here to view sample questions for the CyberFair Project Narrative.
