Journal #13

After just finishing the Franklin Virtues project with the Farmington High School kids, I've found that just using technology to communicate with the other people in my group is hard. You never know when other people are going to check their email, when they will actually complete the assignment we are give, or are they actually even post the assignment. With having people in our group not go to our school it is very difficult to try and see what they are working on or if they are even doing the right thing for each assignment. I thought that the project had good points to it, like I enjoyed having to really analyze one of Franklin's 13 virtues, but I also did not like parts of it. Most of the time I am not a big fan of group projects, because I do not like being dependent on other people for my grades. This project was especially hard because being the only Honor's English student meant that I had no classes with the other people in my group, so there was no way for me to see what anyone is doing until the actually post their finished project on the website. One thing that could be done to improve on the project is clearer deadlines.  Me and also several of my classmates were always confused about what we had to get done and when. After this project, I feel like I really only gained a few skills about how to use video and editing software because I was picked to be our group editor. If we had to pick if we wanted to do this project again, I would not really want to do it. I like what we had to do during the project. I felt I understood Franklin's virtues, but technological issues and the fact that it was really hard to communicate with my group, makes me not want to do another project like this.