Backwards Looking:
What process did you go through to produce this piece? To produce the Geological Time Scale book, my team and I gathered information on our specific eras. We focused on information that contained the periods, major climate, geological events, and life. Following our research and the era report which lasted in its entirety a week, we spent the day planning out the format of the piece of the project we were soon going to present. In this part, I must admit that my team was rather creative in planning the concept of what we were going to present. We decided to present the information that we researched through a book. In the remainder of the week and the first half of the other, we worked on our eras and actively trying to finish the final product.
Inward Looking:
How do you feel about this piece of work? What parts of it do you particularly like? Dislike? Why? What did/do you enjoy about this piece or work? I feel that this project is one that I put more effort in than my other projects. In projects where I have to present a visual product, the inevitable deadline that is to come hangs over me, thus putting pressure on me and me rushing the project, which makes the project look unattractive or unorganized. However, during this project, I was granted the opportunity to work on it over the weekend, which gave me time to put all my effort into adding color into my piece, the Paleozoic era. During this project I also feel that my team put their effort in, despite them not having the time to add any color into it.
Outward Looking:
Did you do your work the way other people did theirs? In what ways did you do it differently? In what ways was your work or process similar? I think that the most common work process among everyone was to split the eras among each of the four members of the group and then each team member would individually work on their era. At the end of the project, everyone would put together what they worked on to create the final product. That is exactly what my team and many others did during this project. Each of the concepts for the project and the way it was done, however, was different. Some teams decided to present their work on a tri-fold or poster board, while one made a book shelves with each era having their own one. Nonetheless, the one common thing that I saw in all the teams was creativity, whether it was the art displayed, the interactives, or the concept of the project.
Forward Looking:
What would you change if you had a chance to do this piece over again? Something that I learned from this project and would apply if I were to do this all over again is to have better communication with my team. During this project, I feel that the communication between each teammate was limited, thus any ability to share ideas with each other. This lead to the format for each specific page being different, due to our differing ideas on how to tackle it. As a result, some eras might have had some missing or excessive elaboration on specific parts of that era. From that experience, I now know how much communication is important in order to coordinate and complete a project.
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