Several weeks ago in my English 333 course, I was assigned to demonstrate how I was able to work efficiently and effectively in groups. I was paired off Christian Brady, John Harrington, Michael Hill, and Renita Caradine. Those four and myself volunteered to tackle the website aspect of our class project. This website is a unique challenge in itself because it offers a large audience and the use of correct citations for given photographs. The reason my group and I are doing the website is to show uninformed individuals the rich history of Hattiesburg, Ms. In addition to showing people the history of Hattiesburg, I personally want to complete this assignment to show Ms. Rene that I understand her teachings and hopefully get a good grade to show for it. The time frame allowed on this project was given to be about four to five weeks, which includes class time and well as out of class time. Utilizing everyone’s website building skills, specifically John Harrington, we will be able to create a fluid, dynamic website which will capture Hattiesburg at her finest.
Several weeks have passed by and our group have been very proficient in our ability to meet with one another and devise very thought out plans. We have been able to work around everyone’s schedule to meet routinely, at least once a week, for about two hours per meeting. In this time, we were able to establish the groundwork for which our information will be based around, assigned each group member a task, made a mock website, and even completed a working website (although with minor flaws). Some work that we plan on doing is to meet up about one or two more times to review the website together and brainstorm on how to make the website better. Using everything we have learned in class, such as the proposal and time management guide, my group and I have been able to successfully stay on track and have completed everything in a timely manner. In addition to doing everything in a timely manner, we kept in simple enough to where errors were minimal and content was rich. With all of these factors working in our favor, we expect to produce a high quality and easy to navigate website that would allow the audience to be entertained as well as informed in their research of our humble town.
Overall, the group learning process has been a somewhat pleasant experience. Everyone in our group has been very professional and extremely communicative towards one another, which showed significant progress in our group. The group leader (Christian) managed everyone very well, planned all the meetings and even brought us cookies. The hardest work would have to be John Harrington. He was able to tackle the brunt of this project and created a visually stimulating and professional document. Renita, Michael, and I contributed towards the goal by doing the required work and submitting it to John. Everyone was also very active in constructive criticism without being rude.
Honestly, I believe there should be no recommendations to this project. As a high level course, I believe that most students should be able to effectively communicate with each other to produce a high quality document. In addition, the course instructor should not help anymore than they have because the project is extremely self explanatory.
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