We received some good news from our collaboration partners - they recently sent us the photo material we needed, as mentioned in our previous posts. The pictures aren't as meaningful as we imagined them to be but atleast we received some footage and we decided to work with those. This is a further step to the publication of our project on the web.
We finished drafting our text for the wordpress and sent it to our english teacher to get it checked/corrected. After we receive our corrected text, we might even add or change paragraphs in our text in order to perfectionize it. Then we will transfer it to dontwastemy.energy, bring it in shape and then hopefully publish it on time.
We both asked our team partners (Kosovo and Croatia), if it is okay for them to post pictures of them. They wouldn't give us the permission for that and we're respecting that, so there won't be any pictues of them. Instead of their faces, we'll upload pictures of the environment they're living in and also give a short description of their persona.
A picture from our team (Switzerland), Liranda and Angela, is soon to be posted.
Our project is still not compeletly put together, so it is not ready to be reviewed yet. We'll ask two people from the class to look at it as soon as it is "viewable".
We roughly translated our survey to our relatives via WhatsApp-Call. We were actually planning on writing the translations down but we decided that it would be easier for us to talk to them directly in case they have any questions of understanding or related to our survey.
That worked pretty well but because we hadn't written the translations down, nobody living around our relatives could take part in the survey unfortunately. Despite of that, we could gladly reach quite a bunch of people already with our survey. We will publish the final results of it on wordpress in due time.
On the maps below you can see the where exactly our collaboration partners live.
Liranda's relatives live in Kosovo, in a village named Kamenica:
Angela's relatives live in Croatia, in a small village named Trilj:
A) Planned:
Today's goal is to have our survey approved by our teacher. After that, we'll be continuing to draft the text together.
Regarding collaboration: Still not very collaborative. We have to be stricter with them, so we'll set them a deadline for the material they were asked to hand us in.
Project bubbles before:
- Survey (9/10)
- C-project tasks (6/10 - we didn't work on this today)
- Media-material collection (0/10 - we still haven't received anything)
- Add/post everything on the horse (?/10 - we didn't work on this today)
B) Achieved:
The survey is finally in circulation. We're waiting on people to participate in our survey and we're extending our research on plastic pollution (for our text drafts). We're also looking forward to creating a login for the "don't waste my energy !" website for the web-publishing.
Project bubbles after:
- Survey (10/10 - released)
- C-project tasks (6/10 - we didn't work on this today)
- Media-material collection (0/10 - we still haven't received anything)
- Add/post everything on the horse (?/10 - we didn't work on this today)
We kind of forgot about this task and already missed the deadline of the assessment. We filled it in afterwards now; we don't have any screenshots or similar for this task but it's done.
Here are our provisional survey questions and the answer-options. We based them off our "expected contribution from the people living abroad", that is written down in our Task 1 (Collaboration partners).
- Are you aware of plastic pollution and the impact it has on the environment?
Yes
No
I don't care
- How many plastic bottles do you buy/use per week?
0
1-2
3-5
more than 5
- How many plastic bags do you/ your parents use/buy per week?
0
1-2
3-5
more than 5
- Have you seen any documentaries that show the affects plastic waste has on the environment?
once
a few times
a lot
never
- Do you think that plastic pollution affects you or just the environment?
Just me: why?
Just the environment: why?
- Do you help at all with reducing plastic pollution?
Yes: what do you do to reduce plastic?
No: is there a specific reason why you don't?
- How much plastic pollution is there in the area that you live in?
a lot
a little
I don't know
none
- Do you think the government is doing enough to tackle plastic pollution?
Yes: what for example?
No: what could the government improve it?
I don't know
A) Planned:
Today's goal is to finish our survey on KoBo ToolBox. Before we can finally upload it, we have to get it approved by our teacher. Therefore we are going to send the link of the survey to our teacher.
We are both working primarily on the survey. Besides that someone will possibly work one the text draft.
Regarding collaboration: We are kind of stuck with our relatives at the moment, they're not very collaborative sadly. We are still waiting for our relatives to send us photo material, despite reminding them several times. It's a little bit frustrating.
Project bubbles before:
- Survey (7/10)
- C-project tasks (6/10 - there are even more tasks, which means we'll have to do some homework, as well as to make sure to post the tasks, which are saved on our personal devices at home, on the horse soon)
- Media-material collection (0/10 - we still haven't received anything)
- Add/post everything on the horse (?/10 - we're going to check this out after we post all of the tasks mentioned above)
B) Achieved:
The survey draft on KoBo ToolBox is ready. We have to get the content of it approved after holidays. We worked on our text drafts a bit.
Project bubbles after:
- Survey (9/10)
- C-project tasks (6/10 - we didn't work on this today)
- Media-material collection (0/10 - we still haven't received anything)
- Add/post everything on the horse (?/10 - we didn't work on this today)
State of the art:
On a scale from 1-10 we're on a 5 at the moment. So far we've had one meeting (Liranda with her relatives and Angela with hers) with our collaboration partners, where we explained what our project is about to them. We informed them that we're currently working on a survey, which we will send to them in due course and also that we are in need of some footage of their plastic waste that they create during one day. We also did a good amount of research already, so we can start writing our texts soon. All in all, it is clear now who has to do what.
Challenges:
As expected, our relatives asked us to translate the survey in their mother tongue, which is kind of stressful for us since our skills in the languages concerned aren't perfect. But most unfortunate is the fact that our relatives aren't as collaborative as we've expected them to be. As mentioned above, we've asked them to send us pictures. Up until now they haven't sent us any, despite several reminders. We figured that they might not be very interested in the topic of our project.
Chances:
Even if we're not in the best situation with our collaboration partners right now, we'll take this as a chance to work on our responsibility. From this, we can conclude that, you shouldn't give up even if things are not going according to plan. It is important to be as flexible as possible, in order to make the project work somehow.