Reflection #1

What aspects of your work are successful? Explain why.

Rapidevent has now become the main outlet for informing students.  It is a well-known entity in the school community. Students know to actively follow and check the Instagram. We had successful promotion of the account during various events such as the spirit assembly and the Grade 9 boot camp.

 

What aspects of your work are challenging? Explain why.

One of the challenges that we are faced with currently, is the gaining of followers. We seem to have started to plateau. We believe some of this can be attributed to the fact that a good portion of the school does follow rapidevent, meaning the number of new followers we can gain from the school is becoming more limited.  We need to start trying to draw followers in from the community now. We are no longer limited to simply our immediate school community.

Rapidevent has become know as a way to stay up to date and informed with school activities. While this a great step forward as it does increase our value and benefit to others, we don’t want to simply be an advertising outlet. This year we are challenged to bring a human aspect to the account. We want to showcase the school community and culture itself.  This will require lots of coordination with third parties now. For example, coordinating with Athletic leadership. We also want to reach out to the students as well. We need to find a way that can involve the students while still allowing for our content to be checked and maintained at a professional standard.

What steps did you take to overcome these challenges / what adjustments did you need to make?

For starters, we now have more members in our group which will allow for more work to be done at once. We have more man power to get things done. In order to try to increase community involvement, we have decided to try to find groups in our community to connect with. What better way to involve the community than to get involved with the community ourselves. As for adding diversity to rapidevents use, we have decide on consolidating some of our advertising in the form of a weekly newsletter. Not only does this reduce the amount of advertisement style posts we feature, it also makes it more convenient for students as everything they need to know is in one spot that can easily be screenshotted or revisited again. In our original time line, we didn’t factor in the rushed pace of the school after winter break. We had to push back some of our projects from the end of January to the start of February to compensate for the extra time needed to get back into routine and rhythm from the break.

Is there anything you can do to improve? (with your approach to the project, or altering the project)

We can improve and update our timeline as a start. Now that we have established what and roughly when we want to accomplish, we need to start finalizing the details and putting our ideas into motion.

Do you have any feedback or suggestions, as we move forward, that could help the Tech Team meet the needs of our school and staff / be more effective? (Provide specific examples)

With grad transition requirements and format changing along with the introduction of the capstone project, I believe it’s important we get students more invested into their blogs. This could be through encouraging students to post to their blogs more as well as customizing it as well. As the Tech Team, we could host tutorial workshops every now and then for interested students.