Sunday, November 30, 2008

In order to be successful in the class, I would recommend attending regularly. Keeping on track with the weekly assignments will guarantee you a good in-class grade. With the client project, it's best to work with a group that is very open to changes and suggestions, cooperates well together, and is willing to meet frequently. It is good for the group to be motivated in order to take care of what is needed to do, because there is a lot of work required. Mrs. Rogers is very helpful and provides a lot of tools to use for the project and most of written assignments due for the class. Utilize these as well as outside sources, such as the internet. To get the most out of the class, do all the assignments and projects as if they were for an actual job. Everything required is very useful for practice and practical on terms of what what may be expected in the workforce.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Group Project Reflection

Working on this project has been a great learning experience. I have had the opportunity to work with great girls who are very motivated and have put forth a great deal of effort towards building this project for Helping Hands. I think the best part about the project has been able to just take it and run with it. Any idea we had to help out the organization was an option, and we had a clean slate to work with. Without many guidelines, we were able to build an idea that we felt would be very beneficial for Helping Hands. In choosing to build a Web site, our biggest challenge was the actual creation and editing of the site. We had to choose a system format to follow, which we felt would be easiest to create for ourselves, as well as would be easy to pass on to the administration of Helping Hands There were definitely problems that we were facing in trying to get the site to be brought up in Google search, and we are still having difficulties in setting up a PayPal account with the ladies we have worked with. I think that overall this project has been amazingly positive and I have seen what a group of people can do in an effort to help someone, and it is possible to do just as great a job in any other project in the future.