This week I focused on some minor "house keeping" task. I created a excel sheet for my time log. This was very helpful to see how many hours I have banked so far, and to also to track my progress. I also had previously printed out a lot of articles to be read. I finished up reading those articles. Two of them very pretty long and a bit dry, and the other two were shorter in nature. I found some very valuable content in these articles that I think will be helpful to the overall project. I have researched and read quite a few articles now. I plan this weekend to go through those article notes and try to make sense of it all. I feel like I have a lot of loose ends that need to be tied back together.
My greatest joy was getting through all the articles I have researched this far. It was nice to see that I had read that many, and also taken detailed notes. The greatest challenge would be getting through some of the articles. One of the longer articles I read got pretty dry at times, and was very hard to focus on. It feels good at the same time seeing a small step being completed.
This week I learned that is about keeping on when you don't feel like it. It's about taking baby steps to get what you want accomplished. I have been doing better with time management, and this has helped me to be more productive.
For my question of the week I was wondering what has been the best way for research? Do you gain the most out of articles, interviews, or surveys?
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I usually gain the most out of interviews because you hear people's experience in person and it's much more interesting. It also makes more of an impact because they usually share more than you ask for. The answers come to you instead of having to search all over for them. But if you want statistical facts I would go with surveys. It depends on what you are looking for to help you work with the board. Have you interviewed Dr. Poff yet on Team stuff?
ReplyDeleteI gain the best avenues out of interviews but solid information comes from articles. You can see where people have tried and failed and what would work best. Survey's only give a broad idea of what people want that are directly involved. I hope this helps Ben.
ReplyDeleteBen,
ReplyDeleteI definitely think interviews are the best source of rich information because you can get first hand information from people about their experience. But if you are looking for articles, Kendra and I had some luck looking at the articles in the library. We just roamed through the rows and looked at the titles and when we found one that looked interesting we just skimmed through the table of context. We found some pretty good information. If you have any questions about it we can talk in class Tuesday. Good luck!