This week I was super productive. I was able to accomplish a lot. Furthermore, for the most part, my group and I worked very well together. We finished our books this past weekend and then we spent this week making the PowerPoints with the picture notes. We were able to finish the powerpoint pretty quickly because as we read, we took a lot of picture notes. But, I do wish that we had known the questions we were looking for as we read, not just the big question, because as a group we took many pictures and it was hard to go through and filter what we needed. The specific five questions that were given to us during the powerpoint creation process would have helped to further guide our reading beyond just the broad big question. Once we finish the powerpoint, it was hard to start the Website for multiple reasons. First of all, it was a big project and we were not sure how to tackle it, since it is such a large, complex piece. Secondly, the day we were trying to start the project Mr. Schoenborn and our digital media person for our group was not there. So, we could not create the website to start and we could not get answers to the questions we had. But, we were able to overcome this hurdle by creating a Google Doc and putting all our ideas and organizing our thoughts there. By doing this, Eric (the writer) and I were able to create an outline to the writing. This outline was super helpful. We looked at the structure of snowfall and we considered it in the context of our book, from there we broke down what each section would focus on. This gave us clear objectives for our writing, and then everything started to come in place around that. It became clear where interviews, animations, maps, and pictures would fit based on the decided content of the writing. Furthermore, I read this article about Snowfall, which analyze the multimodal aspect of Snowfall and has made me greatly appreciate the benefits of this project.
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