Connor Hellwinckel: May 2018

4th Quarter Reflection

Product and Presentation

The 4th quarter project that was assigned to all students of the eComm program was to create a fake company and make a website and presentation for our company. On the website, we had to include a video advertisement and a 3d model of our product. The project was supposed to take a quarter to finish, and my group used the whole quarter to work. Our biggest challenge this quarter was when we had to make the website, because nobody in our group wanted to make the website and none of us were very good with Dreamweaver. I ended up making the majority of the website but my group still helped me when I needed it. We had to work on the website during Raven50 every day for a week because that was our biggest challenge. During this quarter, the best improvement I made was getting better at Dreamweaver. The only constructive criticism I received this quarter was that I should let my group know when I'm going to be gone in advance. Something that's changed about me this quarter is that I've gotten better at working in a team. My overall opinion of this project is that it wasn't fun, but it was a good learning experience that also improved how I work with a team.

Time Management

I finished everything during class time except for the website which I worked on during Raven50 as well as class time. Whenever I finished something, I didn't do anything productive for the team, although I should have worked on the website. However, I did tell my team when I was done with something. Outside of class, I finished the website using Dreamweaver. At home, I have practiced video editing and photoshop but it wasn't for anything school-related.

Strengths

During the past school year, my biggest strength has been video production, because it's my biggest passion out everything in eComm. I'm the most motivated to create videos, so I've been trying my best to improve in that area. I do it in my free time, unlike some of the other categories in eComm.

Weaknesses

The part of eComm that I'm worst with is animation, because it's something I don't do outside of school, and I don't plan on taking an animation class. I'm still not very good with website design either but I've done enough with Dreamweaver this quarter to say I'm at least half decent at it.

Summary

The part I loved most about this quarter was when we first started the project, when we were brainstorming ideas for our company and sketching logos. Something I really wish I had done differently this quarter is that I should have started the website earlier, because we ended up rushing. My overall takeaway of this quarter is that I somewhat know how to make a website now and I've also improved at working in a team. My goal for next year is to improve more in video production because at the start of the year, the only Adobe application I knew how to use was Adobe Photoshop. I didn't know anything about Adobe Premiere so I've been learning the application. My final thought is that I want to continue to improve my skills even more next year.