Journal #13

I feel like I gained a lot more than I originally thought that I was going to from this project.  Benjamin Franklin in general fascinates me, and that was before I even knew about his thirteen virtues and his system.  It fascinates quite a lot to think about someone who is able to look at how they are living and what system they are living by and are able to change it and try to make themselves a better person.  Getting in depth was interesting as well and seeing even more how he applied it and how he changed as a person from it.  What I gained group-wise from the project:  I have never been put into this type of situation where my only means of communication was electronic (my owl wasn't available at the time), and that was kind of cool to experience.  The idea of the project to make kids have to communicate with other students on their own is a good idea and something that can be useful for us.  The thing is though, yep there's the BUT you were probably waiting for, I honestly don't think some kids are mature enough for it yet.  That sounds really aloof and demeaning...but seriously.  I felt like a lot of the other students were not able to hold themselves accountable for dead lines with out a teacher explicitly telling them when and how they needed to do it.  WAIT.  My group was actually a really good group, though.  Mostly everyone was really good about getting their own individual stuff in.  I guess I'm ranting about what other groups told me.  Something that could help: make more explicit dead-lines and what is DUE at that time.  I know I was a little confused on exactly what was due with each dead-line.  I also think making more individual assignments in the project would also be beneficial and we would gain a whole lot more.  For example the video called for a lot of communication from the group and I felt like we got very caught up in who is doing what and oh-my-gosh I have to get all of this done by this time and we just threw together what we could to make sure we even turned in a video.  We weren't able to take our time and put forth our absolute best because we were so concerned with making sure we had everything done and turned in.  Now all of this might just be my feelings and I legitimately have nothing against any Farmington people so please don't hunt me down and eat me...Happy Halloween!