Analysis!
In a way, I feel that as individuals our team worked as collectors, gathering information we deemed necessary or relevant to our own understanding of the problem, keeping fairly organized with immediately relevant material. However, as our Google Drive document added layer upon layer, I found that as a whole we were collecting various references and facts that targeted unique angles related to our topic on childhood education.
This insight led to the team to converse about the scope of the project, including the array of user age groups and opportunity for educational content. We utilized attribute listing, creating a list of general categories (age ; educational content) and breaking down specifics within those categories (pre-k, grade school, middle school, high school ; financial, physical, volunteering, health, arts, politics).
To further organize our thoughts and dive into brainstorming, we initiated work on our morphological chart utilizing Google Sheets to place our categories across 4 rows and 6 columns. Collectively, the team wrote in ideas, thoughts, references, and facts specific to the category intersection. To provide a more flexible and visually stimulating workspace, I transferred the team’s information to Mural, utilizing the digital platform’s Post-it’s to color coordinate, organize, and leave room for additional findings. A key takeaway I had from this experience is that by utilizing Mural over an Excel format, more than one team member could work on an overlapping subject matter, without the worry of deleting or editing the other’s information by accident!
