As time draws ever closer towards the deadline for the completion of the collaborative report we find ourselves ever busier and still with some work left to do. Amongst all of this activity we had two team meetings this week where the discussion concerned details of the final report's structure and how everyone was getting along with each of their respective sections.
Our first meeting was on Monday in the Sulis chat-room. During this we discussed our own draft reports and how they were coming along. We also discussed details of the structure of the report and how the final sections would look and come together. To help with this we came up with a rough timetable. It was a useful way for getting us focused and for co-ordinating our activities to achieve a unified voice for the final report.
During Wednesday's chat we discussed details within the report such as font size for the headings. We also worked out who would make the final presentation for next Wednesday. After the team's meeting there was the feeling that the report was coming together and that we were prepared for all of the activities that will be taking place next week.
For my part I was able to submit my conclusions and recommendations to Katrina close enough to the official hand in date as worked out by the team. However my section of the report came along a lot slower than I had at first anticipated. I had mentioned during Wednesday's meeting that my final report would be finished that afternoon. However I didn't have it ready until Saturday - one day late.
The main reason for this was due to my time-management - or lack of. I found that the process of posting to Sulis on the discussion forum concerning the debates on aspects of third level education took up more of my time than I had expected. I hadn't considered that this would slow down the production of my own report. Here I learned a valuable lesson, as I gave too much time to the thread when I could have done just as much by rotating between the two. I found I could have also been quicker in making my decisions on what to post. Thinking about something for an extra couple of hours very rarely made any difference to what I eventually posted.
However learning such lessons are the unseen benefits of doing an MA such as this, and hopefully the lesson learned will stand to me when I am out in the workplace - hopefully in the not too distant future!
However now I am finalising the final section of the report with the report's editor, Maresa. I am just a few final changes away from full completetion of this section and overall I am happy with the way that it is coming together.
Hopefully the amount of work the team has put in this week will stand to us as we get closer to that final deadline - which, as I finish, is now that little bit closer!
Brian.
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