Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Silk Road Map Project

I overall enjoyed the map portion of the silk road project.

1) 3 things that went well
---- Picking items to represent on the map.
---- Any class time spent ended up being very productive
---- The partner collaboration

2) 3 Things you weren't happy with
---- Our end product
---- Our scale
---- Overall weather whilst doing this project

3) What was hard/difficult about this project?
---- Doing the research for goods not represented in the book.
---- Figuring out a scale
---- The time crunch

4) Collaboration
---- Very good :)

5) What would you do differently if you had to do it again?
---- I would take less time trying to actually perfect the map, and more time trying to map out the trade routes accurately. I would also get my scale right the first time.

3 comments:

  1. Was the collaboration a success because of the person you worked with, or because it was collaboration? (hi Futaba...) What made the research hard? Was it a lack of sources, the fact you chose obscure items that there wasn't information for?

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  2. Partly because of who I worked with (Futaba and I just hate eachother... obviously). But we work well together, it was a good collaboration where both of us did our part, communicated well, etc.

    The research was hard I guess because I just picked a bad agricultural product. Every website I went to told me that Cinnamon was very popular silk road... but that was as far as the description went. The book didn't even mention cinnamon. So I guess that was my bad.

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  3. btw the whole "hate eachother thing" was sarcasm. Just making sure that reads through correctly.

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