Project+Reflection

Reflections on this project
The members of the KADS group worked extensively in collaboration, and have made several observations about this project and the processes involved in having it come to fruition:

**Katrina**

What's nice about this project is we are modeling some of the ideas we discuss for future learners, including collaboration and problem solving. I liked working with others to develop a vision because you get perspectives you otherwise may not have encountered on your own. I may never meet some of my group members in person, but I feel like I know them based on our discussions. We came together to try to come up with ideas on how to solve our current educational systems problems. We meet online through google docs and after class to discuss what is important for education. I also liked using facebook to share ideas as well since it is an easy medium to use that we are all connected to. I just wished the medium (wikispaces) to do our presentation was better because there were times of frustration when the wiki did not want to format correctly. But I believe the future of learning will look like our project.

**Anita** Working collaboratively with the members of my team was a joy. Everyone worked extremely hard, and all were willing to be flexible and offer suggestions and ideas along with providing honest and constructive criticism. I found that working with Wikispaces was both challenging and in many cases extremely frustrating. In the process of attempting to embed multimedia into various pages, formatting was often a problem with pages reverting to formatting styles that were not selected. In addition, when attempting to wrap text around images and video, the text was often so close to the image that the words were difficult to see. This is compounded by the fact that different computers will display the project differently due to varying screen sizes. As a learner and project collaborator, I would have liked to have had a choice about the tool used to create this project.

**Dan** I thought that this was a good collaborative effort from all members of the group. We met online via Google Docs almost weekly from the very beginning of this term and created a Facebook group to contribute ideas and provide updates when we were not formally meeting. In our meetings, we would discuss ideas, share resources, and provide feedback for each other. Even though most of the pages were created and edited by one person, the ideas and content on each page were all shared and discussed with each other. In addition, each member in the group did a great job of finding resources to contribute to each others' pages. It seemed as though the home page was one of the most difficult aspects of the Wiki, so we all wrote a summary of our project that was to be included in our home page. Then, we took certain ideas from each person and created the current home page. Despite some formatting issues, I am happy with the way the Wiki turned out and proud of our team's collaborative efforts.


 * Shweta **

Working on this project with my sagacious and avid classmates proved out to be an enriching experience for me. I am a firm believer of this fact that the diversity of thoughts yield the best result. Collaborating with others provided me with a new perspective of looking at the things. I enjoyed researching, discussing and collaborating with my teammates. Apart from our discussions on Tuesdays of every week, we met online via our own Facebook group and Google Docs. While working on our pages of Wiki, all of us did not confine ourselves strictly to our own sections; we were all over it, jumping from one page to another, providing feedback and suggestions. Though couple of times we bumped off each other while working on same page, but informing each other prior to editing any page helped us in preventing it most of the time. Sometimes, wrapping the text around the videos also proved out to be tricky. But overall, it was a new learning experience for me and I enjoyed it thoroughly.