Day One in our teams and start of the project

In college today (02/03/10) we had the first lesson on the Xtended project, and my first lesson incharge of Gold team. It was fairly hectic becuase nobody really knows what their doing at the moment so there was just alot of confusion and people trying to get organised. Alex was getting in contact with our client, Jenny Graham (editor of Media Magazine). Kirk, Mike and Tara were trying to get things started in a working meeting, dishing out instructions to the 3 production teams and the three production leaders (Me, Phillipa and Loz) were trying to give instructions whilst doing our own work as well. I set Matt and Tim to write out a list of possible things to go into the paper, articles, activitys etc. Loz, Phillipa and i had a small meeting to disguss what each team was doing, Red team were looking into designing the layout and look of the paper and Blue team were researching.

Towards the end of the lesson Dave (Media teacher) who has experience working for publishers, spoke to us about the template of how a publishers works, he explained how each role is performed, how to lay out the production and make sure everyone was working from the same copy of work.

this talk really helped me understand what it was we needed to do.

at the end of the lesson i set Matt and Tim some work to do for tommorow, i asked Tim to write an article about a game weve been playing using wikipidiea and asked Matt to create a crossword reating to media in the online age.