Looking back my group definitely struggled with finding a nutritionist to interview..we called about 10 people! The phones would ring off the hook, but no answers. If someone did answer they explained how their manager or a nutritionist would call us back, but never did. I was sick of calling people and started getting frustrated. There had to be at least one nutritionist in Glassboro, right?! Well, my group wouldn't know because we never found someone. After talking it over in class with Mickey and Sam we realized we needed to look for other interviewees. Luckily, Sam was able to get in contact with Dr. DiRosa, a doctor who worked here at Rowan in the Health and Exercise department. She may not have been a nutritionist, but she definitely knew enough about organic foods to help us with our project.
Within no time we had an appointment set up and were conducting the interview. This part of the process went even better than I thought. Guess I'm not too bad at being an interviewer, but I hated watching myself on a video, yuck! We were able to receive just enough information that we needed to get us started on our project and in the right direction. After the interview we immediately figured out our main research question and how we were going to set up our final project. However, we reached a new roadblock..uploading the video. Shouldn't be too hard, right? Well who knew YouTube wouldn't accept videos that were about 30 minutes? My group definietly didn't. Luckily, Mickey was able to work with Viddler and after messing around with html codes and the website we were all able to post the video on our website!
Right now my group is finishing up our part in creating the annotated bibliography and all contributing to add more information onto our site. Like I said I haven't had time to really work on this, but once my exams are out of the way on Wednesday I am going to work on finishing anything that needs to be completed for this class.
In class we discussed how collaborative projects could be dialogical or hierarchical; I believe we incorporated both into this project. Is that even possible?! Together we found an interviewee, collaborated on our main research topic, and figured out how we were going to organize our final collaborative piece. During class we also worked together completing parts of our final project together. This is where our project seemed more dialogical. However, it was also hierarchical because we found it hard to get together outside of class. All three of us are never on the same schedule. Mickey and I conducted the interview because Sam could not be there. Sam and I are planning on recording a video to add into our piece, but this time Mickey has class. Since we are all so busy we also decided it would be easier to perform research and complete the annotated bibliography individually. We wound up each writing four. Overall, it seems like we have been doing research individually, but have collaborated our ideas together.