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Questioning and Posing Problems
The ability to evaluate and question what surrounds you, and formulate, articulate, and understand the issues that challenge you.

November 1st 2009

As my group and I dive headfirst into our "digital story project", we are met with the difficult task of concocting a fact-based plot that is sumulteniously interesting and informative- while none of us have extensive experience with using technology. Already, I have noticed that this is a project that has many obsticles and decisions that must be made- thus there are many questions asked.

...How would the introduction be best created? ...How should we arrange our facts to be more convincing? ...Is it more effective to include many small facts, or a few large, impressive ones? I felt like we, or at least I, particularly struggled with setting up the structure of our plotline. Each time an idea was offered, we had to stand back and reevaluate our new set up- did it make sense? Was this really the best way to go about it? (Refer to the document above).

Posing problems and attempting to solve them is a routine occurance, ranging from technical issues to simple decisions. For instance: ...The information I wanted to say during my video did not fit into a space that it had to. ...Finding the desired soundtrack for one portion of the movie was impossible. And of course, rather than posing these problems and simply ignoring them, we were forced to find solutions. These solutions were then questioned, and the problems were once again posed. Solving issues, from my experience, often operates in a cycle such as that.

In everyday life, we constantly come across issues, problems, and moments that require questioning what is in front of us. However, this project has turned out to be rich with practice in dealing in thinking in such a manner. During every step of the way, our group must to its best ability question and pose problems in order to make progress with the project and create this video successfully.

Though I, along with my group and class, have had much practice with problem solving and questioning, that does not mean that we no longer need to. It is a skill necessary for every situation, a skill that can always and will always be improved upon. In this, I feel that this project is particularly good practice for future issues, projects, and situations where not everything is working out perfectly as we would hope it to.

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