Bryan's Week 10 commentary

The past week has seen the group meeting almost everyday and making more progress than ever. The primary focus has been storyboarding an visioning. We hoped that this would help focus our design ideas and eliminate any ideas that arn't supported by the data.
One idea that Ben came up with was audio and video of the lectures that could be synced with the online lecture slides. His argument is that it would allow each student to see the professors gestures that one might miss out on or not be able to capture while taking conventional notes. I think the idea in itself is a great one, I just don't know if it's too futuristic to really be taken seriously by the class or professor. However, the more and more i think about it, he only part that seems to present a problem is storing an entire quarter worth of video data.
Ideas like these all seem to follow the idea that the more detailed information the system can make available to the student about the class, the better it will be. To me, the only issues standing in the way of making the system implementable are technological ( needing a light weight notebook with a digital pen for example). The idea itself works so well with the work practice of studying most students have, making it only a matter of time before technology can catch up to the point to make the idea feasible.
What remains in the project is finalizing the design and working the kinks out of our proposed design, and putting together our presentation for Wednesday. The group did the UED over the weekend when I couldn't be around so I'll be excited to see if it helps us decide move quickly and productively in one direction for a change.