Maintaining a level of high productivity is one of my main goals throughout the semester. Productivity is going to be crucial for me to get things done at a rate that ensures more work is completed on time and the quality of my work is upheld. In class today we were asked to set clear guidelines allowing us to visualise what we wanted to work on and maintain throughout the semester. For this task I extended productivity beyond the idea of time and work ethic to include five key points. These key points set up clear checkpoints I would need to tick off each week. They would ensure my productivity is met and my participation in class, which is a big thing for this semester, is maintained. Participation is a key element that this class is going to focus on. Given that we are going to be marked on this task at the end of the semester, monitoring my efforts of participation through these key points will be crucial.
My key points are:
- Communication/collab
- Read
- Experiment
- Questions
- Examples
Communication/collab: I will make sure that I communicate with class members in order to share knowledge and gain a better insight into what everyone else is doing in the class.
Read: I will read each weeks reading and keep up to date with the other bits of information that will come up during the semester.
Experiment: I will try and think outside the box, looking beyond my preconceived limitations of what I can and cant do in the course.
Questions: I will ask questions in class and also question everything I am making in order to create something that tests my thinking.
Examples: Read, view and listen to examples of work that already test the boundaries of documenting, aiming to draw off these examples and use them as features of my own work.
These five points will allow me to uphold a level of standard throughout this semester. My productivity and participation will go hand in hand throughout this course. If my productivity drops, then my participation will inevitably follow and vice versa. Productivity and participation must be treated as a relationship much like the other connections that we discuss throughout the course. The link that exists between them will enable me to reach these goals and have a fulfilling semester.
