During these past two weeks, Charlie and I have really got our plan set. We worked on brainstorming, made our SWOT analysis, created a slide summary, and made our time management timeline. We learned how to brainstorm by watching Ted Talks and reading an article from google. The ted talks were interesting and now I definitely feel less guilty procrastinating. Swot analysis's involve four boxes (as pictured to the right1) involving strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. My strengths are my GRIT score, a 3.5, adaptability, capabilities, and passion for the topic. Charlie and I both love learning about animals and husbandry. However, my passion is also a weakness. Because Charlie and I are both so passionate, when we disagree we tend to butt heads and get very heated, for a short while at least. Other weaknesses of mine is time management, insecurities, technology (although Charlie makes up for both of us here), insecurities, and time management skills. We both need to work on our time management skills, although if we listen to that one Ted Talk, we should procrastinate even more. The opportunities we have boil down to partnerships with companies, other capstones, and teachers. Our Threats include funding and raspberry pi access. Our slide summary was a basic overview of the project we’re doing, along with our intended audience, our plans, and the basic problem we are addressing. The timeline we created was a basic week by week outline of how we want all of Capstone 1 to go. We made a table for each month including the days, a description of what we needed to do, a space to mark it off and a reminder to make a blog post, like the one you’re reading right now. Each month also has a description of the things we need to get done that month as a whole. For example, May is dedicated entirely to working on our Literature review of the 15 primary journals we found earlier in the class. I have improved my 21st century skills doing these two weeks as well. The most improved traits have been Creativity and innovation and Collaboration. To improve my creativity and innovation I had to introspect into what of myself was a strength or weakness in the specific scheme of capstone. I think this helped my creativity because the way I looked was I pulled myself away and tried to look at myself from a different point of view. I think I improved my Collaboration skills because I had to work ona comprehensive timeline with Charlie, which required a great deal of communication. Additionally, I’m working on making my own “voice” in writing so I hope this is the direction the rubric wanted me to go. Tags #progress #timeline #strengths weaknesses https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/SWOT_en.svg/220px-SWOT_en.svg.png
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