Experiences - Team C

What are your experiences of the project? What are the conclusions your team arrived at after the project? Provide suggestions, if any, to improve the reading habit and library usage of students.

All of us enjoyed working on this project. It was really an enjoyable experience conducting surveys. Our team leader Surya led the team who visited and interviewed the bookshops and Librarian of Public Library and shared his experiences with us. Working as a team, we could know each other better. 

The one shocking result we found out during the course of our survey was that most of the teachers thought the reading habit is drastically declining. But what we got from our survey of students was just the opposite.  Almost all the students were of the unanimous opinion that they enjoyed reading.
We could also see the improvement in our school due the variety of activities and programmes introduced in this academic session.
The best way to promote reading is to provide an environment for reading in the school. The Reading Achievement Certificates and library point system for our reading activities is also very good. We think instead always telling reading habit is declining, the teachers and parents should tell us that there is an improvement which seems to be the fact.

What impact did this project have on your team? What did you learn by participating in this project?

First, we learnt to work as a team. The different views by the team members was not acceptable initially, but we learned to adjust and understand each others views.

The usefulness of Microsoft Excel in doing the analysis was new and surprising. The methods of survey and how to find out things in an easier was something interesting. Meeting with other school students and getting to know what they like to read and all was very nice. 

We learnt so many things. The small programme, Irfanview for taking screenshots of anything was amazing. The power of MS Excel and Powerpoint was also new to us. Creating online survey was also new.

How well did you work as a team? How did it help to develop your cooperation and collaboration as a team? What are limitations.

Surya was out team leader who told us how to do things. We were required to submit the responses to him and all of us worked on entering the collected answers on the computer. Gayathri, Rasul and Annie did most of the survey collection and they did a lot in data entry also.

Sanjay and Surya did the analysis and preparation of the report as they were familiar with computers. Rasul also helped in doing the presentation part. Gayathri was very much interested but at the end she was unable to do the analysis and all because she has to prepare for her 10th exams.

We faced problems in doing things after the school hours. Surya, our team leader, did not have access to Internet so he used to go cafe to get in touch with others. Another problem was lack of time. We had practice tests and classworks to attend to making it difficult to do extra work like this. 

List out the tasks your team completed in the project. What resources/IT tools did you use during the project?

We collected responses from 23 students from other schools. We also helped our school students in completing the survey. Surya participated in the interview of bookshops. We all did the entering of answers to the program.
The IT tools used are:
Gmail, Google Drive, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Blogger, Irfanview and LimeSurvey.
We need to learn a lot more. Now only we realised so many things can be done with the softwares.

Team Leader: Surya
Members:
Sanjay Santhosh
Gayathri
Annie George
Rasul Haris