These are two questions that we were assigned to answer in a five minute video based on content and creativity. Leslie Sattler allowed us to pick our own groups of four, and like everyone else in the classroom, we just picked the people closest to us.
As with all of my schoolwork I thought critically about the two questions and came up with an idea for the project. The problem is, I didn't really voice my full idea of what the project could be when I had the chance. First of all here was my idea:
It's like ocean's 11, where you're being introduced to the different thieves and their specialties and how they can are going to help the cause of stealing from the casino. But instead of thieves, it's four college students and instead of breaking into a bank, we're trying to make a video project worthy of an A grade. We have a big task ahead of us and we all can contribute even though we're not actually social workers. This relates to the project because there is a big task of helping society and anyone can contribute as long as you have the values that social workers have. These values are conducive to getting the task done. The values that I was hoping to hi-light were:
- being able to work with different types of people: whether it be marginalized people in society or people with different ways of working
- helping people to help themselves: like teaching someone how to use a simple video editing program so that they can help with the project
- recognizing strengths: a social worker should not only see the hardships someone is going through, but recognize and play off of the strengths that they have to help them succeed. You can do this in a group project by delegating tasks
Then for the video, we'd just act like we were working on planning the project/ doing the project and i'd freeze the frame on a person after they exemplified a quality, and i'd do text that said the value. Anyways, those were just some of the few I was thinking of, I figured that other people would have ideas that we could use too, but my group wants to do something TOTALLY DIFFERENT from what I am used to/ comfortable with doing.
What my group wants to do is to make a sort of power-point with the words/ values they feel answers the two questions. They want to add pictures of social workers, people holding hands, diversity ect. with background music about people helping each other. I AM NOT SAYING MY IDEA IS BETTER, but i'm just nervous because no one has really given any of us a real vision of what the outcome will look like and what we all need to do to achieve that. I'm also nervous because their ideas of what they want the project to me clash with mine, so I am worried that contributing will be really hard for me to do, and I don't want to get points off or be a quitter :(
Anyways, what I'm getting out of all of this, is that I am going to make like a good little social worker and try to use the resources and creativity I have to try to help my group make this project what they want it to be.
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