The oral history project that we did for ELA and IHSS this year was very fun, and I learned a lot from it. Interviewing someone was a really cool experience, and it was a lot harder than I thought it would be, I kept accidentally responding as I would in a conversation instead of silently listening. I was very happy with my small group for this project, because I felt like we all did an even amount of good work, and we worked well together. Another cool part of this interview, was that I was learning different sides of the story of how Harvey effected different people, especially when I listened to the quotes and stories from the other groups in my class. The transcribing was another really cool and valuable part of this project, and it was also a lot harder than I expected, and I'm glad that my group was able to split it up evenly, because even doing just 7 minutes was a lot.
The second part of this project was the full class project. This was a lot harder than the first part, not because we had more or harder work, but because it was hard to coordinate and evenly distribute work and ideas to that many people. I found my self sort of in charge, but it caused me a lot of unnecessary, self inflicted stress, and if we did a project like this again, I would make sure to not let myself get so stressed about things that were out of my control. I felt like our group divided the work up pretty evenly, but since we were making a video, not everything could happen at once, and we were kind of on a timeline. We struggled a little bit with the communication of ideas, because our final video ended up looking like two different videos, but I think we were able to fix it, and I am very happy with the final product.
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