In the beginning I began working through this project using the design web method by Looby Macnamara, a diploma teacher, but for some reason I just couldn't get my head around it, I found I was feeling disjointed and unable to create a flowing design. Her methods are specifically tailored to working through life based designs. I do like her ideas so I think if I did some more reading into this method I'd like to try it again, perhaps I am just becoming accustomed to a certain way of working through the design process. She has recently released a book going over her process in more detail, which I would like to get hold of before trying this again.
(Note: Many months after completing this project I then returned to project 2 and made some changes based upon my interim review. It was then that I returned to using the design web system and I found that it worked very well for me.)
I've added a link to an explanation of her design here.
(Note: Many months after completing this project I then returned to project 2 and made some changes based upon my interim review. It was then that I returned to using the design web system and I found that it worked very well for me.)
I've added a link to an explanation of her design here.
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And instead of just erasing it all, I'll also chuck the writing I did using this way of setting things out here.
3 P's review
Personal
This project has been the toughest one so far for me to get my head around. It began very well, I remember being full of inspiration and ideas of how it may progress, feeling optimistic and hopeful of the journey it would take to it's completion. But I took on too much, and have learnt a valuable lesson that I find it difficult to focus my mind on more than one project at once. The process of this diploma work for me is that every project is a full and complete journey, each time the things that I am learning and discovering having an impact on the route of the project. When more than one project is running at the same time it becomes hard to distinguish for me where to put my energy and ideas, I feel I am spreading myself too thinly, getting very mixed up. And with my energy flowing more naturally into one place at a time, a project can get left behind, just as I feel this one has. This project has spanned 6 months now, and writing up the final parts of this has been increasingly difficult as I become more and more detached and disconnected from the writing from earlier times, when my head and heart were in a different place. In the future I want to only work on one project at a time, so I can keep my energy focused and at it's most productive.
Professional
Wanting to widen my skills in web design and branch out to using a different web hosting site, I spent some time (quite a lot of time) investigating 'Wordpress.com', a free blogging web hosting site. I had a good explore, but as my time on the internet is so limited at the moment I felt it necessary to stick with Weebly for now to save time, as I am now so familiar with the way it works. I couldn't really see any advantage to going to a new site except for the new look of the themes available. I decided to try and be more creative with Weebly.
Project
This project, above all, has shown me clearly what conditions are best for me to work productively and effectively. Beginning with having ample focused working time with fast internet access and childcare, my mind fully involved by spending consecutive days and weeks fully immersed in my work, I was very productive and sailed into my ideas progressing beautifully. When circumstances changed I was unable to successfully find a way to adapt to my new environment and so my work hit a great standstill. As this has been over such a long period of time, with times where I did not visit it for long enough for it to become unfamiliar to me again, I still feel like this project is very disjointed and doesn't flow as well as I would like it to. Nor does it contain the depth of work and research that I would like it to. But I am needing to cut off from this one now, for time restraints, energy restraints, and for the sake of my own sanity. It's been dragging on for far too long....
Time review
Ha, again impossible to say. Must keep a better track on this for upcoming projects. I think if I was to have a record of all the time I have spent on these pages, writing, re-writing, staring blankly trying to make sense of where it should be heading next, I would be stunned into shock and horror over all the time I have spent on such a small piece of work.
Peer review
For each project that we complete in our wee diploma group, we have a peer review partner, to help us get a fresh look at what we have done. Here is the peer review I received from the lovely Bethany for project 3.
Personal
This project has been the toughest one so far for me to get my head around. It began very well, I remember being full of inspiration and ideas of how it may progress, feeling optimistic and hopeful of the journey it would take to it's completion. But I took on too much, and have learnt a valuable lesson that I find it difficult to focus my mind on more than one project at once. The process of this diploma work for me is that every project is a full and complete journey, each time the things that I am learning and discovering having an impact on the route of the project. When more than one project is running at the same time it becomes hard to distinguish for me where to put my energy and ideas, I feel I am spreading myself too thinly, getting very mixed up. And with my energy flowing more naturally into one place at a time, a project can get left behind, just as I feel this one has. This project has spanned 6 months now, and writing up the final parts of this has been increasingly difficult as I become more and more detached and disconnected from the writing from earlier times, when my head and heart were in a different place. In the future I want to only work on one project at a time, so I can keep my energy focused and at it's most productive.
Professional
Wanting to widen my skills in web design and branch out to using a different web hosting site, I spent some time (quite a lot of time) investigating 'Wordpress.com', a free blogging web hosting site. I had a good explore, but as my time on the internet is so limited at the moment I felt it necessary to stick with Weebly for now to save time, as I am now so familiar with the way it works. I couldn't really see any advantage to going to a new site except for the new look of the themes available. I decided to try and be more creative with Weebly.
Project
This project, above all, has shown me clearly what conditions are best for me to work productively and effectively. Beginning with having ample focused working time with fast internet access and childcare, my mind fully involved by spending consecutive days and weeks fully immersed in my work, I was very productive and sailed into my ideas progressing beautifully. When circumstances changed I was unable to successfully find a way to adapt to my new environment and so my work hit a great standstill. As this has been over such a long period of time, with times where I did not visit it for long enough for it to become unfamiliar to me again, I still feel like this project is very disjointed and doesn't flow as well as I would like it to. Nor does it contain the depth of work and research that I would like it to. But I am needing to cut off from this one now, for time restraints, energy restraints, and for the sake of my own sanity. It's been dragging on for far too long....
Time review
Ha, again impossible to say. Must keep a better track on this for upcoming projects. I think if I was to have a record of all the time I have spent on these pages, writing, re-writing, staring blankly trying to make sense of where it should be heading next, I would be stunned into shock and horror over all the time I have spent on such a small piece of work.
Peer review
For each project that we complete in our wee diploma group, we have a peer review partner, to help us get a fresh look at what we have done. Here is the peer review I received from the lovely Bethany for project 3.
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And here is the review of her work that I did for her.
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Richards review
And here is the project review from our tutor Rich.
And here is the project review from our tutor Rich.
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