The final project will be a really interesting experience as we are making a 5-7 minute video of the emerald ash borer and it's effect on the community adding on a quiz at the end. With the target audience being elementary school kids, we are filming scenes of trees in the park and locating ash trees to show how to correctly identify them, so we are going to have audio, film, animation, coding, and graphic work through the video.
Mike----is doing the research on Ash trees and Emerald Ash Borers for the project and he is also going to do the narration of the video as well as doing the audio as well. He was able to find an animation for us to incorporate into the video too!
Paige----is working on the quiz at the end of the video with her experience in coding, we have decided to make the quiz on the website instead of putting it in the video itself.
Stephanie----is the organizer of all the group needs and is scouting locations for filming as well as doing some graphic work as well.
Brad----is filming the scenes, as well as assisting in equipment rental and graphics. He will also team up with Nan to edit the video.
Nan---is assisting in editing the video as well as aiding Paige in the coding of the quiz. She is also helping us film too.
Blake----I am the project leader and I am filming, doing graphic work, and doing storyboards for the video. Also I am leading the flow of conversation during discussions and planning.
Having spent the past 5 weeks figuring out who we are as team members has made the deciding of roles very simple. We all talked about what our strong attributes were and decided that was the best way to assign tasks. Everyone is helping in more ways than one area on this project, which is nice because it'll be an equal share of workload and we all will have experience in all stages of the process.
The storyboards are pretty much done and the next thing we have left to do is to rent the equipment and go out to parks and film trees and locate them! It'll be a great end of the semester!
Monday, October 21, 2013
What Did You Learn In The Dark?
Being blindfolded is always an interesting experience and you never quite feel as vulnerable in anything else in life as much as you do without sight. Going into KiB I thought of many possibilities of what I might be doing while blindfolded, anything from planting trees to walking around picking up trash, but washing and cleaning up recycling bins was a nice surprise. Even if it seems a little tedious, it was actually very telling.
As I was the first one blindfolded, I completely lost my sense of surroundings and it felt like ages to walk over to the sink. I'm a very extroverted person as I was classified as an ESFJ, so it felt nice to actually just listen for once instead of talk. Having that type of personality has given me the chance to head a lot of projects in the past, but it's not necessarily something that I always want to do. Hearing Brad and Michael instruct me to pick up the hose, wash the top, wipe it down, felt just as rewarding!
Having half the group show up during the process made it an even better exercise. The team had to rally together and get involved quick with no questions asked and everyone performed well. There was even a moment where there was another group passing through as we were trying to instruct Nan on what to do, but we literally just paused and waited for them to pass and then went right back to it. Everyone was conscious and aware, which made things go very smooth! We did make the occasional reference that it was tough for Stephanie and I not to say anything when I was told not to do any instructing. I was filling a role as a team player but I definitely had the urge to shot out a little tip or hint and it was tough! I felt most comfortable just instructing the blindfolded team member on what to do because it was what made me feel the most productive and effective to the group. Even in the group discussions we talked about how smoothly it seemed to go and how everyone of us felt a little weird blindfolded but trusted each other enough to just get the job done. When given the task of washing the rest of the cart was telling too, none of us complained, we just went right too it.
It was at that moment when we really were jelling as a team and a unit. We formed an assembly line and had 2 members at each station. Handing the bins off, Washing the bins, and drying off the bins, was the 3 step plan of our system and it didn't take much storming and fell into a great sense of norming as we finished in less than 10 minutes. After getting everything done it felt very rewarding and there was almost a sense of "what's next" in my head as I felt like accomplishing something else that needed to be done.
I've learned throughout this first half class that I am an extroverted introvert. This assignment helped me see that even with something as simple as listening to instructions when I'm blindfolded. I was comfortable listening to someone and not saying anything because I couldn't see anyway, but once I took the blindfold off and couldn't speak to anyone who was blindfolded I felt very anxious. Thinking that what I could say would offer the best advice for the fastest way possible to accomplish washing the bins was hard to let go of, but at the end of the day we ended up finishing all the tasks with flying colors and every member of the team got to experience every role. I am confident that this group will do an excellent job in assisting KiB in the future!
As I was the first one blindfolded, I completely lost my sense of surroundings and it felt like ages to walk over to the sink. I'm a very extroverted person as I was classified as an ESFJ, so it felt nice to actually just listen for once instead of talk. Having that type of personality has given me the chance to head a lot of projects in the past, but it's not necessarily something that I always want to do. Hearing Brad and Michael instruct me to pick up the hose, wash the top, wipe it down, felt just as rewarding!
Having half the group show up during the process made it an even better exercise. The team had to rally together and get involved quick with no questions asked and everyone performed well. There was even a moment where there was another group passing through as we were trying to instruct Nan on what to do, but we literally just paused and waited for them to pass and then went right back to it. Everyone was conscious and aware, which made things go very smooth! We did make the occasional reference that it was tough for Stephanie and I not to say anything when I was told not to do any instructing. I was filling a role as a team player but I definitely had the urge to shot out a little tip or hint and it was tough! I felt most comfortable just instructing the blindfolded team member on what to do because it was what made me feel the most productive and effective to the group. Even in the group discussions we talked about how smoothly it seemed to go and how everyone of us felt a little weird blindfolded but trusted each other enough to just get the job done. When given the task of washing the rest of the cart was telling too, none of us complained, we just went right too it.
It was at that moment when we really were jelling as a team and a unit. We formed an assembly line and had 2 members at each station. Handing the bins off, Washing the bins, and drying off the bins, was the 3 step plan of our system and it didn't take much storming and fell into a great sense of norming as we finished in less than 10 minutes. After getting everything done it felt very rewarding and there was almost a sense of "what's next" in my head as I felt like accomplishing something else that needed to be done.
I've learned throughout this first half class that I am an extroverted introvert. This assignment helped me see that even with something as simple as listening to instructions when I'm blindfolded. I was comfortable listening to someone and not saying anything because I couldn't see anyway, but once I took the blindfold off and couldn't speak to anyone who was blindfolded I felt very anxious. Thinking that what I could say would offer the best advice for the fastest way possible to accomplish washing the bins was hard to let go of, but at the end of the day we ended up finishing all the tasks with flying colors and every member of the team got to experience every role. I am confident that this group will do an excellent job in assisting KiB in the future!
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