Week 6-English 333

Introduction: 

I am reporting the progress of my English 333 group project on creating a website on how to make a website during the summer semester of 2011. We all agreed that the website was a project that we were assigned that was poorly designed for the students to create. We also will look into other computer/internet options for free website designing software.

Facts and Discussion:

Our first group discussion was on Skype, in which we all were able to speak together. Originally, we discussed creating a resume/cover letter with several examples as our group project.  After much deliberation and conversing with our English 333 professor, Mr. Cruthirds, we found that our project would be better if it was based on something we all had issues with.  As we began to discuss what we had problems with, we came to a common ground that the website was the most troublesome project we had done thus far.  The directions were not clear to successfully finish our project and the website was not set out well enough for us to understand how to add effects and content the way we wanted too. Our project topic changed to creating a website that teaches how to make a website, especially for this course project to help future students who take this class. We will split up topics for each person to look up and start to create a page with after we discuss what all we want to include and how we will go about everything. We will also look into other free websites that help create websites to see if there are better ones out there that can be more instructive for students in this class who have never built a website. It is going to be difficult to do this project because we will not actually be able to meet in person—only via Skype and other internet means.

Conclusions:

At this time, no work has been started on our project—as far as I know. Everyone’s schedule has been so busy that I have not heard from any of my group members. Next week I will contact the group members myself and we can get a start on our project so we are not behind and can hopefully complete the project early so that we can gain any critiques are professor might have before our actual turn in date. Group dynamics are really important, so we shall step up and take charge to make sure we are communicating and finishing our project efficiently.

Recommendations: 

We have not ran into any major issues during this project yet. We may in the next week or so, in which case we will promptly inform our professor.