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Week 11, Activity 4 Blog

By the end of this week, your full initial development must be completed. Were you able to finish according to your timeline? Why or why not?  What technology challenges have you faced? What “people” challenges have you faced? How have you sought to overcome these difficulties? What have you learned about completing a major project within a professional deadline? What will you do differently next time?

I was able to finish my initial development according to this course timeline.  As far as people challenges, the only problem I had in this class was with my first peer reviewer partner getting sick early on and not communicating with me.  But ever since I was paired up with my second partner, I have no complaints.  I’ve had effective communication with her, except for this week when she didn’t receive my review through email.  I like my partner’s honesty in her peer reviews and I hope she finds my peer reviews useful.  I have found her suggestions very helpful.

I don’t know if I have mentioned this before but I prefer to work as an individual and not in a group.  Right now in a different class, I am working on a project very similar to the one in this course but the only difference is that we are working in groups and with a real client.  I feel like working in groups is a disadvantage to me in my style of learning and working as I don’t like to depend on others.  Having said that, I have really enjoyed having a peer reviewer but I feel that in this course, there is a need for a peer reviewer and is not just something to keep us students occupied. 

What were your strengths as a designer?
Is hard to say what my strengths are but if I were to guess is that I like to complete my work and projects as soon as possible.  I used to be a bad procrastinator when it came to homework, although I have never been a procrastinator at work.  A year ago, I made the decision to think of school work as another job so that I could change my behavior and do the work as soon as possible.  Another strength is that I find it easy to learn new applications, as was the case with Canvas.  It only took me a few days to get comfortable in the Canvas environment since I had never used any other LMS other than Blackboard. 

What do you need to improve?

I need to learn how to write proper quiz/exam questions.  I have never sat down and learned the proper way.  I also need to learn how to think critically and add critical thinking tasks into a course (assignments).  And although I feel a bit more comfortable working with goals and objectives, this is still an area I need to go back to and learn some more.  In all, this has been a great course that has thought me a lot.  If I were to do it all over again, I don’t believe I would change the topic of my course nor the content.  

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