Online Exhibit Group Project

There are two words I dread hearing any time I take a class – group project. In high school, undergraduate and graduate school I would do anything possible to get out of doing a group project or either would take on the entire project only leaving small things for others to do in case they were not great to have on team. Well this will not be the case with the current group I am in made up of Sarah Beaver, Amanda Elzey, Andrew Pack, and myself.

At first it appeared that we were going to have problems when the remaining project to choose was not something anyone but me wanted to work on and we had to try and come up with something else. Dr. Cox suggested we look at the WBT/WBTV collection and see if anything there appealed to us.

We chose the WBT/WBTV Digitization Project: Women of the Year Award that will look at the Woman of the Year contest from 1955 to 1989. The project will make use of the WBT/WBTV collection in the Atkins Library archives. We hope to post photographs and profiles of select women from each decade and working to provide historical context to discover why they were chosen.

It was easy to see a clear division of labor with the project the four of us each took a decade to be our main focus there by allowing each person to be focused on a smaller group instead of one person trying to hand a big chunk.

If the project goes as smooth as the process for choosing a project and doing our contract has then we should have a great working relationship.