Summary of the exercises

Exercise one:

My resources are quite low for this project I only have myself, the professor, and the internet. The two things I’m sure I’m doing well is doing effective when doing the interviews and that I am good at coming up with great questions. I will continue to make this a reality by drawing back on my previous experiences and analyzing them. I will continue to take in constructive feedback and looking at new and interesting ways to implement the feedback into my project. My untapped strength is optimizing my interviews and making them more efficient for online versus in real life. I will tap into this strength by collaborating with the people from my class about the organization and what the end goal of the project should look like. I feel like my blind spots are thinking the people would want to participate in an online interview without any incentive. I will address my blind spots by actively following up with the people who I ask to take the survey. I feel like the biggest challenges are to overcome my procrastination and to overcome my natural disorganization. 

I do not have a set plan on overcoming my biggest challenges but I plan on collaborating with similar people from my class to see how they have overcome these challenges.  

Exercise two:

Since I don’t have official group members I can only talk about the people who are working on the project at the same time as me. I have the people in my Cinq389 class who are doing similar projects. There is still a great deal of difference between our projects so I feel as if their ability to help may be limited. My greatest asset may be professor Brunstien.

Exercise three:

Start- Organizing my ideas more efficiently and Frequent contact with Professor Brunstein outside of class. I will try to accomplish this by organizing my time better and start working on the assignment given in the class earlier.

Keep- researching and completing all of my assignments on time and keep asking questions that benefit everyone.   

Stop- Procrastinating on small details and Stop over thinking the end goal/big picture of the project. I will make this happen by asking the professor more questions about the end goal of the project and the best way to organize the data.  

Plan

Since I do not have an official team I will try to keep the plan more focused on the project as a whole and my plan.

Small goals: Learn something new and useful, make new professional connections get a good grade is both classes. I will accomplish this by taking notes, being fully present in all class meetings, and asking all the professors/professionals in-depth questions about the material. 

Big goals/Project goals: Learn and understand more about the COVID 19 crisis and how it impacts people. I will accomplish this by researching a lot of information about the crisis and gathering data from interviews with NGOs

Roles: 

Professor Brunstien (Coordinator)- The main expert with all the knowledge and experience. He should be able to answer all my lingering questions about the research. Although, he tends to leave the project very open-ended allowing me to “use my best judgment”.

Me (interviewer and project worker)- The main person doing the bulk of the interviews and groundwork allowing for further analysis from people with more skills/knowledge than I.

Processes: create and optimize questions, do the interviews, gather useful information from various sources, organize the data/info, analyze the data/info, lastly create the opinion-based paper.

Ways teamwork has changed: There are only three changes to this aspect since I didn’t have a team last semester or this semester.

1. I am in an official class new people whose projects are similar to mine. I can collaborate with them to a certain level
2. Since I am in an official class there are more resources and it is easy to communicate with the professor and ask questions
3. My entire project has changed making it more focused on research information than interview data.

Funding:

I don’t think funding is need for my specific project but I will inquire about it, next class.