Evaluation - Organisation At AS

Organisation was an issue at AS. Not only was finding time to film the actual video a problem (due to time clashes due to work, events etc), but also organising who did what for the blog itself looked a problem in itself.

As we didn’t designate certain parts of the blog to each other, it seeemed like everyone was doing blog posts to keep up with everyone else in the group. Even though at the end of AS everyone had managed to complete an even amount of blog posts, at the beginning, one group member seemed to be doing all the blog posts while the rest of the group have nothing else to do. This was a problem because with the majority of the blog posts goes the majority of the marks. If only one person does all the blog posts for a group, he/she shall receive all the marks from that blog. As we all caught up towards the end, the blog posts were evenly shared out and this problem was dealt with.

Another problem we faced during the blog was the ownership of blogs. With people from our group not putting their names at the bottom of blog posts, certain members of our group decided to claim for work they hadn’t done. This year we need to make sure that people put their names to the work they have completed, because they may lose out on marks. As well as this, the placing of the names will change. At AS, we put our names at the bottom of the essays to show who done them. At A2, we decided to copy the idea of members in our group that were in another group at AS and put our names in the tags section. Not only is this easier to tell whose work is whose, but also it doesn’t ruin the way the blog looks (with the spaces for the name, unneeded lines etc.).

Finally, the blog itself is hard to have organised and the people that do it, but the stuff you put on the blog needs to be organised as well. At AS, we feel that our blog didn’t have enough imagery of the scenes and locations that we used. This we feel lowered our mark because we could have taken more images and filmed more footage of the locations to give the reader a better understanding of what we were planning to accomplish. The lack of this was down to not bringing equipment to do so.

Overall, the AS blogs shall be massive towards organisation within the groups. Not only will the above reasons influence, but also as this A2 blog has people who were in different groups last year, each group could have different problem could be avoided in this blog. With an organised blog, the group plans to beat last year’s score of 94/100, learning from the mistakes we made last year.