Everyone entered the room with a somewhat anxious gut feeling, mainly because it was time to pick out the groups. I’ll be honest but I zoned out during the discussion so I don’t even remember what Liam and the class was talking about in detail. However, I’d still like to list down my vague recollections of week nine’s workshop:

• the collaborative contract template
• the project brief for assignment #4
• what an annotated bibliography is
• what is a SWOT analysis? personal experience: i did business in like year 10 and psychology in VCE lmao so I do have a fair knowledge of how to use a swot analysis
• and how to use a zoom hand recorder H2N

What I actually want to focus on this blog post is the group aspect of the workshop: meeting our group members. We decided with the old-fashioned “picking out from the hat” method. I low-key preferred this method rather than choosing our own group members because it enables us to expand our horizons and let’s us get to know new people! And it actually worked quite well in my case because I got paired up with the people all the way on the other side of the room – people I’ve never had a social interaction with.

Now, the beginning of our collaboration was getting to know the H2N recorder. It’s so complicated for a mic recorder and I’m actually not sure why it has to be? In comparison to the Sony MC50, this microphone was hard to get around I was fortunate enough to be paired with someone who has had experience with it (shoutout to Izzy!). We went out to the hustle and bustle of Swanston St and recorded all sorts of things for the activity – from trams to interviews, we wanted to encapsulate our experience at RMIT! I’d say overall that it was a good teamwork as a starter despite the absence of our other group mate.

lyreca 🐹