Group+4's+Responses

Lead Designer: Ali My role in was the group's lead designer. I chose to be the leader because I like being in charge, and I like having things under my control. As I leader I came up with the main scheme of our project, with help from my group members, and then assigned group members roles, as well as myself. I like being in charge of the project, and then giving others responsibilities and clarifying their ideas. Our best ideas happened when we listened to each other, and when we had an open mind about others ideas. Instead of me just assigning things, when everyone talked and contributed what they thought, that’s when our best ideas occurred. Instead of using one person's ideas about the project and doing it all their way, we combined all our ideas in order to make the best final product we could. For example when deciding what software to use to best present out ideas, was a time when we had a group discussion and transformed our idea into one. Someone mentioned that our part of the book was pretty much based on the story of the Aunts life (what the mom says about the Aunt). So since it was a story, we decided to use comic life to portray what was occurring. The hardest part about being the leader was probably the fact that my group looked up to me. Meaning that if stuff went wrong, or what we were doing wasn't working, I was the one who had to try and come up with a solution for the problem. Another hard part about being the leader was telling people what to do. I like being in control of the project, but I don't really enjoy assigning people things and telling them what to do. In general I thought our group worked well together and our final product reflected our hard work.

Spokesperson: Lowell 1. Why did you choose to be spokesperson? I chose to be the spokesperson because it sounded like a fun job to talk about your groups ideas. I took this position because I felt that I was the best person to be the spokesperson. I also thought this would be a good job for me because I'm not shy and like to talk. 2. How did you make sure you represented the groups' ideas and not just your own ideas? I listened to everyone's ideas in my group and then our group thought about the ideas and saw which ones where the best. After that I wrote them down and confirmed it with my group members and after that then talked. I did this to make sure none of my group members would be angry with me and also to make sure I was saying out best ideas. 3. Besides representing the group, how did you contribute to the creation of your resource? I contributed by looking for pictures for out comic life, I also helped by reading over the pages to give ideas and to see if our grouped missed anything important.

Technician: Tim Moody 1. Why did you choose technician? I chose technician because it seemed like the job that fits my strengths better than the other ones. I personally am not a very good leader or speaker and I am not great at keeping track of things. Therefore the last job was technician. This fit well because I am actually pretty good with software. 2. What digital tools did you choose to use and why? We used comic life for our project. We chose this because we felt that we could express our thoughts about our pages in pictures and a little bit of words better than we could any other way. For all of our pictures we pretty much just looked up key words on google. 3. What was most frustrating about your job? Was there anything your group wanted to do that the technology held you back from doing? The most frustrating part of my job and of this entire project was that it is very difficult to find good pictures for some parts of the story. When we looked up some things all that came up were random pictures that had nothing to do with what we were looking for. In the end we were able to figure this out and the pictures we were able to find still fit into our project well. Pretty much everything else went smoothly.