Week 1

Bryan Nehl Journal



Observations

The most interesting thing to me about this first week of keeping a journal is the observation about the time spent reading the paper and the productivity calculation from that. The epiphany was in taking the productivity factor and looking at future similar reading assignments and being able to create an estimate of reading time needed based on a similar prior project. Specifically, with a productivity factor of .2 for the journal paper reading, multiplying that times the number of projected pages to read, 20, I can then project that I need to schedule 100 minutes for reading.

The video time did at first pose a perplexing conundrum. That is, a 20 minute video will take 20 minutes to watch. Or does it? Consider that the video was a 20 minute video and it took 25 minutes because we re-watched portions.

The Slides were all review from the video. Therefore, I was able to go through them very fast. The result was an astonishing 5 1/3 productivity.

I am also going to have to come up with a better way of doing the journal that will allow for a quick and easy creation of the chart. It took way to long to try different ways to put together the journal data that had collected and get it into a format for the chart.

For tasks that don't appear to have a discernable way to break them down, I've estimated a productivity of 1. For instance, when reviewing homework requirements or arranging for a proctor, that's how long it takes.

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