Wow! What a week this was. This was the midway point of our Assessment in eLearning course and that meant MIDTERM PROJECT time. Yikes! Last week, we were assigned our groups and chose what each of us would evaluate. Next came the challenges or should I say LIFE! I really like how one of my teammates put it. She called them "incomings" - something that needs to be dealt with right now while you still have all of the other things needing to be dealt with too! All three of us seemed to have many incomings at the beginning of the week which meant we couldn't really devote as much time to the project until midweek (or in this case Wednesday).
Well, when Wednesday arrives we all start to work vigorously on our portion of the project. Since mine is Excel, I am very comfortable with the program. The problem lies in remembering to think as someone who might not be familiar with it all. This was quite the challenge and took much more time than I thought it would. However, it was a great lesson in remembering where I started and how I can best help others when they are struggling with the program. Not only that, it made be realize once again why I use Excel for so many of the things I need at work and in my personal life as well. It was wonderful to delve deeper into what Excel is capable of as a grading program especially re-learning about the graphs and charts which can be made once you have your data entered. Nice refresher there! There can be a large learning curve with Excel and reading books and tutorials will help but other resources will probably need to be sought out as well.
As we come to the end of the project, we realize we need to decide how to present this to our classmates. Having viewed some of the others, I think we are feeling our presentation won't be much if we can only do a WORD document. Friday night as Margot and I were working and talking in Groove Workspaces (shameless plug here) I thought of an idea to use Google Sites to set up our presentation. Having used this for my portfolio allowed me to feel quite comfortable in looking at it and seeing if this would work. Well, I found what looked like the perfect template and set to work giving us the skeleton which would be our final presentation.
Finally after many hours of work between all of us such as editing our documents, editing the site, getting pictures and quotes, etc. we put the final touches on our site. I have to say I am feeling pretty proud of this project. Normally, I do not like group work. This project, however, was one where having the right teammates made all of the difference in the world. I think without all of us supporting one another as well as encouraging each other this could have been a major disaster. Instead, it turned out to be something incredible and I am proud of having been a member of Group 1! Way to go Ladies - We did it and did it well!
Until next week's entry, I am taking a much needed break (only for a few hours and then it is back to the grindstone aka Grad School work).
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