Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Finished?

Today is the day of marking and I don't feel ready at all. I have decided to work as hard as I can until tonight in the hope that my website is marked later on in the night. I found the working in groups aspect of the course very difficult and will strive to get a good mark in the exams in order to pass this course. I feel a little disappointment that I did not start this project earlier and complete it by the due date as my previous marks have been moderately good and I feel like I could have done a lot better at this assignment. This course has taught me a lot about university life and I will certainly learn from my mistakes.

Lost

Help!

Ive contacted Guznal, the absent third member of our group and informed her about our task. She has been very helpful and found some useful sites and video to help with the project and I'm very grateful for her help. Im working hard at the project but got an unpleasant surprise when I realized that we need to reference the material we found using proper APA referencing format and using in text citations.

Group meetup

Recently,  I met my group members and we began to discuss what was going on. We eventually decided to do a puppet show as a project designed to spread the word about bullying. We decided to use Google Sites because it is a free and simple option to communicate and contribute to our group work. However, later my group member Michelle had a hard time gaining access as she couldn't make a Google email and sharing was difficult. I had a look at this video to help me understand the concept of a wiki and how sharing works on Google sites. I'm feeling very overwhelmed because we don't have much time to work together and on top of 15-21 hours of work over the weekends, the project will be very difficult to complete.

Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Groups

I was unfortunately away on the thursday we were assigned groups. I was a bit confused but after checking the LMS site I found a (google drive) document that told me the names and contact emails of my group members. After sending an email to each group member introducing myself, I began to feel worried when a week later there was no reply. One of my group members had been in my group for researcher so I just contacted her on facebook but I still had to find the others. After searching I eventually found another group member Michelle and we communicated via facebook. She seemed just as confused as I was and I felt quite relived. We arranged to create a facebook group and meet in class the week after.