Gallaudet vs. Howard University Project

http://quicktimepc2.gallaudet.edu/samantha.groetken/Samantha4.mov


I am doing a group project where we have to compare Gallaudet vs. Howard University. My group members are: Georginia, Thy, Brook, Natalie, and Zsolt. I am not happy with some people that are in my group. As I know, I am a very serious student in school, while a few of the others don't seem serious or motivated to work on this project together as a group. But, there are a few of us who are willing to work well together, which I thank you guys for who cares.

We have to find out the history of both universities and see what the differences are and the similitaries between the two universities are. We have to do this by researching their history, and looking up for old maps compared to new. This is the idea dealing with our theme of our GSR 150 classroom, "The City as the Text." We have to try to apply the concept of a place between the two universities.

First of all, we worked on our proposal. We wrote an outline of questions on what we want to research for both universities. Zsolt wasn't there, so we went ahead without him. I want to say I had fun with Georginia and Thy about our brainstorming questions. Thy mentioned about what kind of people go to Howard University. Georginia said, of course common sense, black people! I sarcastically said, what about Gallaudet, what kind of people go to Gallaudet University? We had fun debating with each other while brainstorming our questions. Brook also came up with a few questions, while Natalie didn't have any idea of what type of questions we should ask.

We each have our own duties as an individual, Thy has provided the full information on her blog. Visit her blog for more information. I will do the researching questions, because I love to research, so I took that job. Our class went on a Gallaudet tour together, and I planned to write notes about the tour. But, Thy brought her camera, and we (Zsolt, Thy, Georginia, and I) took turns videotaping the woman. I thought that was a great idea that Thy brought up because we could refer back to it when we work on our project.

We will make more progress hopefully soon. And, we will also take a tour of Howard University, and I am looking forward to that!