Luke Sears

Mrs. Wertz-Orbaugh
UWRT 1102-044
16/3/2015
Group Multimodal Project Individual Reflection
When this project was first handed out I thought it would not take much time. I was
thinking it would be an easy through-to-gether. The positives were that it would be quick, and relitivly
painless. The down sides were that it was on the same topic we have and will continue to write about
for the rest of the semester. Having only one topic to write about makes writing somewhat more
sonerous than usual. I was also dreading the "one group member who does nothing". The necatives
paned out about as expected, writing about the same thing over and over does not as a rule get more
intresting when the writer has very little basic intrest in the topic at hand. There was indeed a group
member who did next to nothing. The positives however, did not pan out as expected. Failure to read
the rubric beforehand led to recording and implementing the voice-over in the two hours before class.
Also the nature of the project ended up with more work going into it than i had previously thought
would be necessary (not a bad thing by any means). Howevr for the most part group members got what
they needed to do done, and even with the smaller group, we finished with a resonable product (if not,
perhaps, what we could have done with a bit beter tracking on the rubric).
The decission making procces in our group was simplified from what other groups had to
deal with. By nature of being under-strength in numbers we did not have to worry to much about
collaberation. Only having to colaberate with two other people is much simpler as any decisions can be
made quickly with a minimum of discussion. My role was to make a basic template for everything to
go on, and the other group members filled in the slides and formatted as they needed. I don't really feel
i learned anything about myself as a group member. I feel that I get done what needs to be done, and
thats all there is or should be to it. We just steamrolled the few small problems we had. They mainly

showed up at the very end when we were doing voice over. One group member had slides that were not
useable and could not be voiced over because of the nature of the information on them. We removed
the offending slides. We did not really have a leader, we for the most part were abble to come to
agreement. There was no need to lay down the law as it were. If being leader was the loci of
communication then the leader would be Morgan Harries, if the leader were the one that set forth the
basic configuration for the presentation, it would be myself. We communicated through text and e-mail.
One group members phone broke and could only be contacted through apple devices (some apple text
to email serveice, closed like everything they make) so that led to Morgan Harris ending up as a relay
for almost everyone. I think most everything went well.
Our final project was a prezi with (admittedly a bit hasty) voiceover. The prezi was not a
cohesive topic each member could contribute to, due to the small size of our group, we were given
allowence to just have each groupmember do their own section seperate to ease the work-load. I do not
feel the final product was as polished as it should have been. The voiceover (by natire of being done on
short time) had several spots I would have re-recorded given the chance. There were stutters and misspeaks that I would have liked to redo. The slides and voicover were to simaler. Given more time to
integrate the two, the voicover would have enhanced the slided. Morgan and myself (the only 2 we
could get to gather in time to review the voice-over) did what we could, but there are several slides
where I effectivly re-state what the slide already has on it, with no reall adition bar different wording
and method of delivery. The prior knowlge i drew upon was some previous classes i had had to
reaserch the houlocaust and previous experience with programs simaler to prezi. I learned that more
time needs to be put into doing any audio portion of the prezentation. Especially lisening to other
groups work, some of them had wildly varrying levels of audio quality. All persons in a gropup should
attempt to make their recordings on the same device in simaler situations to avoid the break between
audio types. The quality matters less than the conssitency of the quality. My own voice-over gets very
quiet at times. Also more time needs to be allocated for working outside of class as a group. In class

was not enough time for the work. We thought we would iron out the details in the group, then fill
everything in solo. This did not work. I feel we did alright, there are definatally some things i would
have fixed given time. I think the biggest suprise of the final product was that we got everything
implemented before it was due. There was a serious time crunch at the end for the voice-over. Next
time I have to do a multi-modal project I will implement the things I learned this time around. I wil find
times for the group to meet outside of class, and plan for aoudio voice-over from the beginning so that
proper time might be spent over it, not figure out that it needs to be done at the last moment.