By doing the Franklin Virtues Project, I feel like I got to
know a little more about Benjamin Franklin.
It also made me realize that I needed to become more efficient at some
of the virtues myself. I might even try
Franklin’s experiment on myself sometime.
It would be interesting to see how similar my results were to his.
I wish I could say that I liked this project but, overall, I
think that it could have been improved. One
issue which appeared was that in several groups there were people that did not
complete their portion of the work. I
believe that setting a due date for when each thing, including the individual
video, is to be completed would be a good idea.
For the people who do not have internet connections at their house, they
should be provided time to do their part during school and if that is not
enough, I would go to some place that has free Wi-Fi, assuming that they each
have a laptop.
Second, I think that some people in different groups were
either confused on when to e-mail their video in to the video editor or
forgot. With Gmail not loading at
Farmington, it was difficult to communicate back and forth with other team
members on things such as that.
Hopefully an effective method of communication will be available for
next year’s classes.
Also, I did not see a huge benefit from doing this
project. I already knew what each of
those virtues were before learning about the project as well as how they can
apply in a person’s daily life and where they could be found in
literature. Ordinarily, I would have
said that this project helped improve my communication skills, but, with not
being able to communicate with everyone, that seems out.
In addition to making sure that Gmail or some other form of
communication is available and setting common due dates for everything, I would
assign everyone in the group a different task.
One person could be the video editor while another would be the grammar
editor and someone else could create the definition slide, etc. . . .
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