internet of things - reflection

Reflection - I learned alot about the internet of things while doing my project, mainly about the relevance to modern life and it makes me think about how lucky I am in comparison to how hard peoples lives in the past were and how my children and grandchildren's lives will be affected by iot devices. During the entire process many Wall-E jokes were made about how that's how people are going. We each learned by doing our own independent research and then bringing our findings together to teach each other and share data, we mainly communicated in person and spent extra time on campus doing research as opposed to being completely separate from each other and occasionally meeting up. I found this to be better as it meant we each knew that each person was pulling their weight. Unfortunately there were things that we each agreed to do at home which is where it seemed there were times where people were not doing their fair share of the workload and not putting in as much effort.

I discovered that making infographics was much more difficult to do than i would have given someone credit for previously as the simple enough looking one i made for the presentation took far longer and took much more effort to do than i would have thought. Although it did give me an incentive to create something more visual and to be creative with what i would do for the project.

Being the only one with experience using google sheets I was also able to teach my teammates how to use it to help show off the survey data and create the pie chart we ended up using in our presentation. I believe this created a good learning experience for my team as it will likely be useful if future projects they have to do.

Our biggest failure for the project was the lack of images and having too much text on screen meaning viewers were left reading instead of listening to us explain or summarizing. This also did not give the presentation a good look or flow as some slides contained only images and some may aswell have had nothing but text as it covered up any smaller images. I believe the root of this issue was people becoming worried about forgetting what they had learned and wanting to keep what should have been notes on the actual slides.
There was also a lack of clear data as the pie chart we created did show  a list of items but it did look a bit bare, in future i would gather more data , ask more questions and have a different ways of expressing the gathered data to a viewer to make it as clear and concise as possible to get a point across as simply as possible .

overall i was mostly proud of the project but i feel there definitely could have been improvements made .