Intent

Intent to me means what I intend to achieve and how I intend to achieve it.
My intents for this collaboration project are:
* To learn how to work in a team environment to achieve an outcome.
* Improve my skills in new areas of computing (UT3, wikis etc)
* To improve my presentation skills.
* Finally to improve my skills in researching and presenting a building with no detailed and specific information.
* And of course to pass my subject.......

With all of the above combined I intent to be a more employable person with a wider range of skill sets and collaborative skills than other potential applicants.

ACHIEVING MY GOALS:

Working in a team environment
'Projects often require that people work together to accomplish a common goal; therefore, teamwork is an important factor in most organizations. Effective collaborative skills are necessary to work well in a team environment. Many businesses attempt to enhance their employees' collaborative efforts through workshops and cross-training to help people effectively work together and accomplish shared goals.' (1)

With the above quote in mind, this subject has become a 'workshop' and 'cross training' which will help us learn to work together to achieve our desired outcome. How I intent to improve and learn in this area is simply by participating with my team and completing my set tasks which will in turn teach me some of the pitfalls of collaborative work and also show my strengths and weaknesses in the area.

Improving my skills in computing
My intentions are to conquer new technologies such as UT3, wiki's and other collaborative tools, along with new software encounted in video editing and presentations.
I will achieve this by completing tutorials given to us along with my own research from several internet sites. With this as my base knowledge I will then start the tried and true method of trial and error within these programs!

My Presentation skills
Through the multiple presentations required I will learn as each one happens (and from observing others) the best way to keep my audience interested and awake.....
From our initial presentation I thought we did well in regards to keeping people entertained as there have been others which have been....well simply boring. I have learnt that to get your message across (no matter how good your subject knowledge is) you must keep people interested and doing so with light humour seems to be a good way to inform.

Research
Last semester I completed a subject which required the study of built buildings with heritage value, whilst in this subject we are required to research a building that was not built and as such requires guess work and comparisons of similar buildings for information. I will become skilled at this type of research through the development of our model.

This is my intent and how I plan to follow through with my intentions to get my result.

REFERENCES:
'teamwork' viewed 26th April 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teamwork