Summary+of+Process

Summary of Process After forming a group consisting of Ross Turner, Adriana Vanderheyden, and Jenn Gibson, we set out to decide on a topic that would be relevant to all of us. We decided on the HOPE scholarship because we felt like the topic was relevant to high school students, and college students (English Education or otherwise). After looking at the wikipedia page on the HOPE scholarship, we were settled on the matter. The page, prior to our editing, was very empty, and had a limited amount of information on it.

We gathered what sources we intended to use, and made sure to circulate the sources to every member of the group. If the information proved legitimate and seemed like it would be a worthwhile contribution to the article, we kept the site. Otherwise, we filtered through them, and abandoned the ones that we wouldn't be using.

After compiling our sources, we set out individually to take on the page, and see what edits we could come up with. Each person was responsible for citing whatever information that he or she used or edited. This portion of the process wasn't hard at all seeing as the holes on the page gave us a firm foundation from which to work with. We kept each other up to date on our individual progress via messages on GeorgiaView. Every class period began with a brief run down of where we were, and we were going to accomplish for the next class period.

After submitting our progress report, and taking a look at what we had accomplished since the start of the project, we completed the second round of edits adding any information that managed to slip by us the first time. If more research seemed necessary at this point, we did it. Much of the tiny details in the project were done individually, and then brought to the group members either in person or in an e-mail.

As far as individual work and contribution to the project, we each pulled our weight in different but effect ways. Jenn continually brought new ideas to the group throughout the project process, completed her portions of the edits, and started a number of e-mail communications through the group. Adriana research the topic and filtered the suitable/non-suitable web sources to be used in the project, completed her portions of the edits, and organized the information on the wikispace. Ross jump-started the edits, availed himself to the group, and hosted/managed the wikispace. With every group meeting, we determined what we had each accomplished, and settled on what we each needed to do before the next class meeting. By the due date, we had successfully completed our edit of the page, and were pleased to find the the HOPE scholarship article on Wikipedia was much fuller than when we had settled on the topic.