LIS 385T.6 Spring 2001
To design is to plan
DUE DATE: 4/25
To design is to plan.
Review the process and control aspect of your team project and describe
your individual contribution to and/or hindrance from the group's effort
in meeting the deadlines.
The roles of the group are blurred. We didn't assign roles in the group
of "the programmer", "the "information architect"
or the "graphic designer". Perhaps other people feel that assigning
roles is a more effecient way of tackling the assignments but I feel that
our blurring of roles has made the atmosphere very democratic and stimulating.
We continually bounce ideas off one another.
We arranged a system that seems to work well. We get together on Sunday and discuss the upcoming assignement together for a few hours. After this discussion we choose what part of the assignment we each feel most comfortable doing or writing about. We each are aware of what the other group members are doing and if we have questions or concerns we email each other to get some feedback.
I feel priveleged to work with two people on this project who have both great artistic sensibility and great technical skills. I have so much catching up to do in both of those aspects and working with this group has made me more determined to contribute as much as they do. I feel that I have to try extra hard to do what seems so effortless and natural for them. Audrey has helped tons in showing me how to use Dreamweaver. I feel that Jessamine has taken the lead in desicion making which can be difficult for me at times (yes, I can be very indecisive).
I was debating about whether or not I should write about this but, I had a dream last night I was in a bright white classroom. Audrey was next to me working away I started feeling so frustrated I couldn't do anything to help her. We started argueing. I ran out of the classroom where Prof Herndon was standing and I started sobbing to her about how I didn't belong in the class, I didn't know what I was doing, and I didn't know what to do. She didn't know how to calm me so I ran away with this awful feeling that I had let everybody down. I woke up with a terrible feeling wondering if I actually had done something wrong. Nobody from our group has argued by the way, this dream is completely about my struggles. It probably comes from my lack of confidence about my skills. I have a lot to learn and this entire class (esp. this project) has been a huge struggle for me personally.