Reflection on Class Project



During class this past week, the entire class received what I thought what was some much needed constructive feedback on the project that AMST 422/682 has been tasked to complete. The feedback that was received came from people who have now graduated or are continuing their education and have taken the class before. By taking AMST 422 prior, they were able to understand what was expected of us not only by Professor King, but by the Community as a whole. The theme that seemed to be prevalent in most of the feedback received was that whichever way we were presenting our project, the presentation needs to be able to capture the eyes of the audience right away or else we will lose their undivided attention during the rest of the presentation. So in other words, we need to be able to make a good first impression on our audience. 

 As far as what the (past) group has accomplished since last week, I think we have made strides in the right direction. By utilizing the feedback from the previous students of AMST 422, Zach (our group leader), was able to compile together most of the missing pieces for our class project. The task that myself, and DeAndre were given was to actually go to all of these places that we were featuring in our presentation and take "personal" pictures of the places. For example, I had originally posted a picture of the New Beginnings Barber Shop in the "Photos of buildings" folder but we decided as a group that the photo of the barber shop needed to be more personable. What I mean by this is that we wanted to capture and demonstrate to the audience of what the barber shop does for the Community of Sowebo. 

 My individual contributions moving forward with this project will be to try to find better (past) pictures for the initial gathering of people at the Lions Brothers building. I believe that our presentation still lacks in this and I think it is a very important part of the project since that has been what most of our research has been on throughout the semester. 

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