Why do all good things come to an end…?

… but do they  have to?

 

an homage to my group.

After two months of passionate blogging in our group – ITineraryforvision – the end is near.

Final exams are right around the corner and the assignments are fulfilled.

But does this mean that we say goodbye to blogging and the subject of IT? 

surely not. Our group of 6 members gained a lot of experience through blogging which will definitely form a base for a lot of challenges and tasks which are still ahead of us! To vary from managerial skills and organization to fine and informative writing… we covered it all by:

Hands-on experience as a team!

The start-up period:

We formed our group not really knowing what was ahead of us. Eventhough everyone had an idea of blogging, the task in a dynamic and periodical manner was a new, exciting and maybe a bit intimidating thing to deal with and to discover. But one thing was clear, everything works better in a team. Knowledge and skills add up, there’s always someone to talk to who might have the same questions and problems to be solved.

Distribution of tasks:

A team is built by it’s individuals, right?   And all those individuals contribute to the whole and support eachother with the help of their skills. Or some reassurance. Or just with a good idea.

All duties of webmaster, groupleader, tagger and mapper were identified and divided amogst us, we started discussing possible subjects, lay-outs and helpful writing style and… we stepped up to the plate:

Are you ready ? Attention ! GO!

Full creativity demanded. Interesting, informative ideas need to be found and discussed. The first blog maybe took 5 hours of our precious time, but after some weeks of continuous blogging we all found into our workflow, our writing routine. Contents became more informative, more appealing…more professional? We managed to keep our blog up-to-date, which means that we tried to post every day of the week. After a short time we figured out that a fixed day for each blogger would be the easiest way to deal with the question of continuity. Sonja posted on fridays, Yannick on saturdays, I posted on sundays,… and we swapped days if someone struggled.

And here just some things we learned and internalized:

I guess that we all agree on this one. We learned how to smoothly keep our group work going, how to work as a group in general, creating something big, something amazing with the help of all of us. Management was a significant part of our assignment, but also web design, the efficient use of web content, links and videos,…we made big steps forward to a professional mode of work, to more professional and informative writing.

And now… dear group members… let me tell you something.

Thank you guys, I enjoyed !

(and hey…maybe we can keep this blog alive ?!)