Neil's+Reflection

The biggest challenge for me, initially, was that I had hardly any idea about our chosen topic! I've only been in Dublin since September, and my sense of Irish history is not great. Luckily, the group helped me out with a "rough guide" to the events of 1916, and I have since enjoyed learning more about The Rising.

The next challenge was figuring out which reference tools to use, and then allocating one to each member of the group to evaluate. I feel I got one of the easier ones, as I was given Encyclopaedia, but writing my section of the Collection Policy was less straightforward, so it all balances out in the end.

For the most part we all worked separately on our different sections, meeting once a week to discuss what we had done. It was only recently that we started to collate the information on Wiki Spaces. We decided that our original Wiki on Blackboard was trickier to format, but so far have found Wiki Spaces more straightforward.

We all helped each other out with the literature, and discussed the reference tools and Collection Policy each week. We also kept in contact via email and text messages. One week I turned up to the wrong campus restaurant for our meeting, but the wonders of modern technology saved the day! I look forward to working with the same group next semester.