Month: December 2020

Project Update – Week 6 (Final Week)

by Tameya Robinson

WE DID IT! WE MADE IT TO THE END….After 6 weeks of intense work, group meetings, stress, and a lot of late night – we finally made it to the end of our collaborative project. My partner Mary turned in the final link for our group blog on Monday, which was a day early and I couldn’t have been more happy. I’m happy that we could turn it in early and happy that we made it to the finish line. There were quite a few times were I was overwhelmed, but I was able to push through those feelings and complete the assignment.

I had mentioned that I wish Mary and I would meet more often, but I realized that she’s a full time teacher, a teacher at SCSU, and we both just have extremely busy schedules. Luckily, we were able to meet twice over the final 2 weeks – once last week and once this past Tuesday. Both meetings were extremely insightful and Mary helped me get a better understand of what our portfolio should or could look like. Honestly, I’ve never had to do a portfolio, so not having any type of example wasn’t helpful for me.

I think this entire project was extremely meaningful and I think we did a great job, especially considering the fact that we only had 2 people in our group and all the other groups had 4-5 people. We did a lot of work and put in a ton of hours in order to complete this project and I’m so happy that we were able to finish the project strong. Now it’s time to tackle the portfolio and pray that I get a good grade on that, because I have literally NO IDEA what I’m doing – so fingers crossed. This has been fun, but I’m glad this part is over. ON TO THE PORTFOLIO!!!

Project Update – Week 5

by Tameya Robinson

We’re nearing the home stretch! And I couldn’t be happier. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed this project, but I’ve been working from home, still helping my son with distance learning, helping my husband with some of his school work – all while trying not to fail this class. So it’s blessing to have made it this far. I haven’t met with Mary (my project partner) in a few weeks and I’m assuming that everything is going well. I think we are both extremely busy so trying to lock down some time, especially a reoccurring meeting, has proven to be difficult to do. With that being said, I’m hoping that our group project is cohesive and flows together despite the fact that we haven’t checked in very much.

As far as this week goes, I have a lot of things planned. Along with this blog, I plan to post at least 3 times throughout the week in out group blog – with one post including a video I will be creating with my son. I’m trying to decide if I want to include the other video I’ll be making on our group blog or if I just want to share it on our social media pages. I’m thinking of doing both, because it’s nice when you have multiple areas where you access one piece of information. I will be honest and say that my videos will probably not be the greatest, because I’m not very tech savvy when it comes to creating videos or editing videos – so bare with me.

I think I did a great job with my social media presence last week. I’ve to think outside of the box as far as adding additional information, outside videos/documentaries that support our topic, articles that go with our topic, as well as victories for survivors of child abuse/maltreatment. I personally think I’ve been doing better with the social media aspect of our project than our group blog, because I find it easier to share information and give it a caption than trying to create brand new content from scratch. For our group blog, I might create a post that gives some resources per state for child abuse prevention and/or intervention. I’m not sure if that’s blog worthy, but I think it would be important information to have all in one place – in case somebody needs it.

We’re so close to end of the semester and this project is a great way to wrap up the semester. The last few weeks have been a bit hectic for me, but I’m glad that I’m able to get large pieces of our group project done and that I have a plan going into this final week of the project before creating the project portfolio. I’m pumped and ready to get working on this final week.