Blog 6

Blog 6
Group 4 assignment is to create a document that will assist upcoming Eng 333 students with the course online. The final document will be made into a brochure which will hopefully be posted on the English Departments Website. Online courses are often viewed as an easy way of taking a college class that you can work at your own leisure, but they are also considered a scary idea, but we feel with this brochure students will think differently about taking this class online as well as others on line.
I believe our group is on track of finishing our project. We have tried to work together as a group to achieve this goal, it has been a bit hard with everyone in different areas, but we are making it work to achieve our goal. I believe the hardest part about this project was the fact of getting the questionnaire answered by the current students. The replies that have come back were not as many as had been hoped for. I am currently working on the replies to submit for the final phase of the project. All in all I believe we have enough information to achieve our goal of easing the pain of upcoming students into ENG 333.
Group work can be fun to do; the only problem is when the group is scattered out. I for one would prefer a group that is close in area so I could meet up with them at least once during the course of the project. One meeting would achieve so many unanswered questions. I realize this would be hard for an instructor to accomplish but I feel the final project would be so much more elaborate for the instructor and the students in general. Our group has been taking on the phone when needed but in my opinion it is just not the same as a face to face meeting. I know we will be meeting or taking again before the final project is due to discuss any last minute details either by skype or phone which is wonderful but there is still the small problem of getting everyone together at the same time.
I am not sure how we will present our project as a group but I am sure we will be working with Mrs. Bandy when the time comes to accomplish this. This assignment was very confusing to me, but I have to say it has been a great pleasure working with Stacey and Shonda they have really made this assignment easy for me to understand.