Project Reflection

Many weeks before this part of the project we did small activities that would help us learn more about the different types of systems before doing the actual project. One of these activities was called “Mr. Goodbody.” During this activity we traced somebody out of the groups we were assigned and described everything inside the body such as the heart, blood vessels and bones.

During this project we were assigned groups and also assigned a different part of the body to study, make a project about the body part and also a website explaining the system you were assigned.  The purpose of this project was to learn about the different systems in our body and mostly get to know the one you were assigned well. Another overall goal for this project was to teach the person visiting your website something they didn’t know before they had read it.

Before organizing who was in which groups we, as students got to decide the order of what systems you wanted to be in from least to most desired. The nervous system was one of my higher choices and that is what I ended up getting. Another choice we got was what role we wanted to have in our group which consisted of the researcher, creative media, community connection, and the interviewer. With each of these different jobs in our group we were given the task of making a website.

My job ended up being the interviewer. The responsibility’s that I was given with this role was to interview a professional on the nervous system. I ended up interviewing Dr. Youssef, he is an orthopedic doctor at Mercy Medical Center. Doing this helped because it was good to get some input from the real world and it also helped me understand why it was so useful to know the different body parts especially if your planning on going into a medical profession.

 It is a good skill to be able to communicate with the real world and talk to them about something your interested in and this I believe is something I did well because I got ahold of a professional  and interviewed him personally with well thought our questions. Something that I would change in this project would be the organization on how to do things. I had a lot of trouble on how to upload my recorded interview to our website and it would have saved me time if we knew how to do that in advance. On the next project I m going to try to stay more organized and hopefully that will help me improve the quality of my work. As I said, this project really helped me improve doing stuff on my own because I had to set the interview up and make it happen. Knowing how to do this is important because we need to be able to communicate with the world and make things happen.
This is our website:
http://are-you-nervous.webs.com/