Friday, November 18, 2011

Team TRS

Joshua Baghdady. Adrian Epps. Andrew Runnion. Alex Wall. United at Clemson from across the southeast, these four students hope to achieve greatness in their final, magnum opus of English 103: the Multimedia Argument Project.
Dramatic enough? I hope so. You need to have something to spice up these otherwise-mundane blog assignments. Oh well. The end of the semester is approaching, and I can already almost smell that turkey. And cranberry sauce. And stuffing. And sweet potato casserole. And pumpkin pie. With whipped cream.
No! Stop! Focus, Baghdady, focus. Let's do this.
The assignment: 400-500 words discussing the group project so far and each member's participation. All right. I'll start with Adrian.
Adrian has been vital so far in creating the storyboard on our Google Doc. Today in class as we started putting together the things we've been brainstorming this past week, he helped to organize our topics in the Doc and integrated images from the internet that fit our ideas.
Andrew has been...Andrew. Infamous for sitting in class and giving everyone an apathetic stare, he has helped in the formulation of the ideas and flow of our topic and has been valuable in pointing out any needed changes.
Alex has worked alongside both Adrian and me in both creating and editing our storyboard. Her ideas and proposals have helped our entire group get on the right page with this project and have helped to give us needed direction and inspiration. (When I say "needed," I mean "absolutely necessary." Don't forget that this class is at nine in the morning. Without Alex, Andy and I would probably just sit sprawled over the chairs half asleep, while I practiced imitating Andy's famous apathetic stare. I'm pretty sure it's a skill I can attain. Anyway. Back to the project. What would this blog post be without me talking about me? Actually, don't answer that. It would be a normal blog post. But ignore that point for the moment and view the preceding question as purely rhetorical. Read on.)
As for myself, I concocted the topic (questioning the necessity and purpose of general engineering education courses) with Alex's help and gave it the title "Weed Out: It's Not What You Think." When we started storyboarding, I helped in formulating our major points and their arrangement in our planned video, while looking over and tweaking Alex's and Adrian's work on the Doc itself.
That's really it so far. We've only worked on this since Monday, so there's not much to go off of at this point. Have I reached 400 words yet? I hope so. Happy Thanksgiving!

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