WEEK 6- The course is really starting to move ahead a quite a pace now. This is down to the fact, deadlines are fast approaching, along with the first written assignment based on the given case studies. I actually found the first assignment quite an interesting proposition and feel i did a good job of analysing my chosen case study, lets just hope my mark reflects my confidence! Back to today's lecture and we are now working on our final presentation posters for the collaborative section of the course. Today i learnt that getting good marks for a poster does not always mean its the most eye catching one, and that the information it has is just as, if not more important that pretty pictures. This was due to the fact we were given the opportunity to see some past students work, along with the given grade. funnily enough the most aesthetically pleasing poster was actually awarded a FAIL, however another piece of work which at first seemed less appealing actually got graded A. Lesson learned!! With the knowledge behind us that we were actually expected to produce an academic poster, as opposed to something a lot more basic, me and my group got hard to work on our presentation. Believe it or not our biggest struggle as a group was finding an appropriate program to even start to produce our poster, this was down to both our lack of knowledge and experience in using such programs, and also i feel our high expectations of what we actually want to achieve. After fumbling around for a couple of hours we finally decided on an appropriate program and got hard to work. My distinct role on this project, is based around what information we would like to display on our poster, as to date i think this is coming together pretty well, and from what I've seen the presentation is starting to look nice. Lets just hope we can publish a finished project that meets not only ours but the tutors high expectations!!