My group finally had our presentation. I think it went really well! Our website has come such a long way. Overall it wasn’t a super smooth semester, but I think my group did a good job of adapting to the situation. It is unfortunate that my group wasn’t able to do everything we wanted with OLLI, but I’m happy with how the project turned out. I did a couple of different things for this project. I made a couple trips to OLLI, and I took pictures of the classes as well as some of the video recording for a video that didn’t end up on the final project, which I was the editor for. I also helped find videos for the website. Another thing I did for the site is research real examples of ageism in the workplace and ageism statistics, as well as find a graph. Along with this, I helped with minor organizational and design edits on the website. My team had quite a few zoom calls to figure things out, not everyone could always be on the call, but they were usually productive meetings. As with all group projects, some people contributed more than others, but nobody on our team did nothing, we all had responsibilities and we took care of them.

I am very glad we have completed our project. It was a lot of work and we really made a lot of revisions after our practice presentations that helped the overall website out a lot. I think our presentation went really well, and although there was some technical issues like spacing and alignment, I think overall the end product turned out great. I was heavily involved with the project and I delegated a lot of the work to others. I conducted a lot of the research, and I worked on the maps and the media sections.  I also was responsible for the “Get the Facts” page. I wish I could’ve added more to some sections, especially the section at the end of the “Get the Facts” page with the chart, but time did not allow. Brynne did a great job on the make an impact page and even though we rearranged some of her stuff, overall it all was really well done. Ben found the Ohio State story, he made the section about OLLI, inserted some OLLI photos,  and helped with a lot of the finishing touches. Devin made the quiz. I am glad he re-did the quiz, because the first quiz he made was copy and pasted, and did not really fit the theme of the website. Collin didn’t really do anything to contribute to the site. He was in charge of a few infographics. He made one, but after our practice presentation, we realized his infographic needed some editing, but nothing was changed so we discarded it. I wish he could’ve contributed something to the site. It would have made a lot of our lives easier I think.  Overall I think the group all presented well today and I am glad that our finished product was presented well.

We finally did our presentation and it went really well. From the previous knowledge we had about what Katie said we adjusted some things that were bad and made them good. The whole presentation went solid and I think we did great!  My own performance I believe was really good. I added a lot of content to the site and helped a good amount with capturing media. I also helped find information for the website and made the quiz  but I think what I did the best was keep the team on track and give credit when it was due. I think I played a great supporting role. 

Katie was the MVP of our group. She made some really good changes to the website and found a lot of good content that we used in the project. I think because of her we were able to really wrap this whole thing together and make it what it was. 

Collin was a great communicator. He found content and helped Ben and I with getting some of the media. His presentation was great and he communicated his part of the project really well. He made some good choice decisions and really told some of us what needed to be done. 

Ben did a lot of great media work on the site and put a lot of time into capturing pictures and video. He presented really well when we did the final presentation and he really spoke like he was interested.

Brynne had a lot of good ideas for the presentation and did good work on what she was assigned. She found really good information that we put on the website and helped organize everything. She communicated really well and presented with professionalism. 

I think we should have had the project done earlier than we did but that’s ok.

We faced challenges getting a real theme and idea going but we figured it out. 

I think the presentation went  really well and I’m overall really satisfied with what we created.

I’m really happy with how the end product of this project turned out. It definitely took a lot of work to get everything together, but our group worked hard and managed to work together really well given the circumstances. When we first put together the website, things were a little more jumbled than I realized. At first, I made the whole combat ageism page. We ended up dispersing everything I made into different sections in order to make the website flow better. To be more specific, I found the hand picture on the “Get the Facts” page, made the age friendly language example boxes and the boxes for combatting ageism for younger and older generations with the graphics and descriptions. I also made the POWADA section, W.H.O. actions section, the organizations to supports section (links) and the “Meet the Team” page. The biggest struggle with this project was figuring out how to put it all together and have it make sense when we weren’t together. After putting some of the more main stuff on the website, I helped move stuff around and changed some of the formatting to make it mesh and turn into a story rather than a presentation. There are a lot of skills I will take from this project into the future, but learning how to work better in a group is probably the biggest.

I think overall our group did very well and we made a project we could all be proud of. I was willing to do whatever was asked of me and I was willing to help others. The same goes for the members of my group. We were always sharing ideas or pieces of information that we found with each other in our GroupMe chat. Everyone’s ideas were always valued and I think that is what helped our project become so strong. Additionally, our willingness as a group to meet regularly still during this tough time made it easy to make changes or add certain things to the project. I don’t know if I would have done anything differently. Overall, I had a really positive experience in this project. The only problem we encountered is the abrupt ending of school which made certain things difficult. I believe this project is something that I can look back on and use as a reference point for a job interview or whatever comes my way. I wish we could have still finished out the school year in person but in the end, I am pleased with everything and I really enjoyed this class and I hope to learn more things from you in the future!

This week was more eventful than most for our group. We had our practice presentation and learned a lot of things about our project. The video I was working on editing got tossed in the trash after realizing it was too far gone to be saved. That was very disappointing for me but it is what’s best for the group. Thankfully, I was able to find a great replacement video. The biggest thing our group took away from our practice presentation is that our website just doesn’t flow as a good story, so that has become the new focus. We have been re-arranging our information and making it more cohesive while we tell a story. My new current task is finding real stories of people who have experienced ageism. I think this will help our website a lot, as real stories can be much more emotionally engaging than statistics. I think our team knows what we have to do and is gonna get it right before our final presentation on Tuesday. I am excited to see our final website, as it has really come a long way.

I did not present this week. I worked more on the project and we figured out a lot of new things to put on the website. I think we are getting it figured out and it’s becoming more of a piece than it was before. It really just felt like the website was put together weirdly and not really made to flow. I think we figured that out when we had the meeting with Katie. That zoom definitely helped that day. Our move after we did that was to assign what we needed to fix to each individual person. I think that got figured out well and over this next weekend everything will be worked on. I have to work on the quiz and make it a little more user friendly. Make the questions have smoother answers and make it feel like it’s something that any person can take and it will actually give an accurate response. It’s all coming together, we just need to make the Wix page feel more like an interaction than a presentation. I think that’s a solid approach and if we can make it feel that way it will be a success. I’m pretty excited to see what we can create and make as our final project. I think our team has communicated really well over the course of this whole experience and class.

This week we presented our group project over ageism. I think the project overall is good but we are missing a few things like you pointed out. We need to find some way to tell a story instead of just stating facts everywhere. I also plan to make my infographic more clear and I also plan on giving my infographic more background information to make it easier to understand and for it to have meaning to someone who isn’t familiar with ageism. We also plan to fix up the color scheme some more to make it follow better and make it easier on the eye. Additionally, we plan on taking out some of the interactive pieces because as you said there are “too many” which we agree with. This week I finalized the infographic for the practice presentation and it was critiqued and I plan on changing it to the things I talked about earlier. I still wouldn’t change anything about my group members and the biggest challenge still is the COVID-19 pandemic. Obviously, that has made communication a little bit harder but I think we are on the right track and our group project will be something we can all be proud of.

After our practice presentation, I am feeling slightly worried about the state of our project, but I think we can make the necessary revisions. I think we have included enough content, but the content we have needs to be edited a little bit. Mainly Ben’s graph, Devins quiz, and the video examples I uploaded. We also need to make the website more of a story and reorganize it a bit. We got together over zoom after our practice presentation and decided to create some different sections and reorder things to start. We kept our get the facts page to explain what ageism is and why people should care. Then we moved some stuff to a new tab called “Causes of Ageism”, where we will be talking about the 3 main causes of ageism. I think we might include a page on the negative effects of ageism. I’m thinking this page needs to be more emotional than factual to help tell the story and move our audience to care about the negative effects of ageism.  Then we are going to put some methods for combating ageism for young and old people. Lastly, we are going to keep the make an impact page and include some bills and organizations to support. Hopefully, all of this rearranging and editing will get our website where it needs to be. 

I think we’ve made more progress in the past couple of weeks than we gave this whole semester. Our website has finally come together, and we just need to add a few final pieces. It’s looking really good, and I think using the same color scheme and fonts throughout made everything mesh together well. This week, I finished up the “Make an Impact” page and “Meet the Team” page that I was working on. At first, it was a struggle because I wasn’t sure how I was going to set everything up and make it look good, so that worried me. After trying to think of some layouts and messing around with Wix, I finally came up with a product that looks good and is visually appealing. JOMC 131, 132, and 133 have really helped leading up to this project because I know a lot more about design now and what looks good together. We are meeting up tomorrow to talk about how we are going to present everything, and then we have our practice presentation on Wednesday. I’m interested to see what all we can change to make the website better, but right now things  are looking really promising.