Friday, March 6, 2009

Mentoring Session #3

Our goal for this session was to work through creating a “skeleton” frame for Jennifer's site, decide on what her main menu will consist of, and what deeper elemental layers she would like to add to her site.

Unfortunately, we were unable to successfully accomplish all the tasks we had listed for our session. In retrospect, I think we failed to set ourselves up for success by not creating a concrete action plan for our time between sessions. We ended up moving into this session without having built upon our work from our last session. This setback, coupled with our lack of foresight in regards to how expansive the detail work is for Jennifer’s project-website led to us a place of opportunity growth rather than forward progress.

In an attempt to remedy our predicament from this session and to avoid future setbacks, Jennifer and I will jointly create an action plan for our time between sessions. This action plan will include specific tasks and also thinking prompts to better prepare us both for our next session.

We both feel good about the process and our sessions so far. Likewise, we are encouraged by the adaptability of the process; sessions can not fail simply bring to light areas for improvement.

In our next session Jennifer and I will begin creating her site. Layout, design, titles and word-smithing will be our focus. If we work through those tasks easily then we may move towards adding her work and media choices.

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