Alexander Gårdenberg, Veronica Wallstrom, Christoffer Erneholm, Daniel Dominguez, and Theo Stråhlén.
This is the group I’m working with now. And I must say it might be the best group I’ve been working with so far. We all know what we are responsible for and we work really well together. We have less then two weeks to finish our product and to prepare for the exhibition that will be in Stockholm October 24th.
We are now going into week three, and I can really feel the stress sneaking up on us. When we left Friday we had everything working just fine, on Sunday we came in to have a structure meeting, and today we are just not on track. What happened?
Well, it’s not that bad. The design and the interactive part is really coming along. Alexander is doing an amazing job. But the camera doesn’t really want to cooperate today. The screen is pixelated so Daniel, Theo, and Christoffer have been trying to figure it out all day. It’s really a mystery.
I’m also in the exhibition group so I have been working with that some of the day. There is so much to do in so little time, but I’m sure we will make something really good out of this. All of us.
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Group21KNA are in the middle of this project, where we got a wiimote as a component. We have the technical part working, and now we are working on the design and the interactive part. We have our product name and logo and everything seems to go smoothly.
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I was really excited when the module Experience Technology started. On Tuesday Petter Warnsberg came to present the module, but we didn’t get our groups until Wednesday. And when I got my group I was even more excited. I’ve been working with Christoffer Erneholm and Theo Stråhlén before and I feel that we have the same goals and passion for what we do. I’ve been wanting to work with Daniel Dominguez and Alexander Gårdenberg, for their knowledge in design, good communication, and presentation skills and now I will.
Everyone is participating, and the level of work is super high and I think this depends on the smaller team building we had on Wednesday. We set the roles and the responsibilities and expectations that came with each role so everyone knows what they are doing.
Today we have been doing some serious idea development and we are so excited of what we can come up with and we all want the best idea there is.
Monday, new week and a new module. Today we started with a Monday Meeting, which we are going to have like every second Monday. Now in the beginning the co-workers will be with us, but later we are having it ourselves. This is for us to talk about pretty much everything, and I like the idea.
The new module is called Communication Skills. This is a two week module and the first week will be presentation technique with Jonas Lidman and the next week is Motion week. I’m very excited about motion week because After Effect is one program I want to learn more about.
Today we got our groups that we are working in for the next week and a half. How we got it? First we were walking around to music inside the room, when the music stopped we stopped. Together with the two people closest to me I was then suppose to dance and follow each others moves. After that we were again walking around the room, but now in the groups of three. The last time the music stopped my group got mixed with the closest group of three. And that was our final group for this project.
First project, first group. I’m very excited.
Its been a long weekend from Friday to Tuesday. I’ve been really tired from the UGL course, and I haven’t been very social. But now it is time for team building and both Digital Media and Motion (MGD10KNA) are leaving Trossö, Karlskrona for three days to stay and play somewhere secret.
I think this team building will be like a part II of the UGL, but this time in bigger groups and outside. I’m excited and it will be fun to see the whole class again.
Now the UGL is over and I totaly understand why people haven’t been able to explain the course for me, because I don’t really know what to tell you. It’s been a week full of theories, emotions, group exercises, and a lot of reflection. It feels like I’ve been through four years of working experience in just five days. I’m exhausted.
I’m sure I’ll bring a lot from this course. And I don’t just mean during the next two years at Hyper Island, I’ll carry this experience through the rest of my life.
It’s Monday and I’m about to walk over to Stumholmen and Båtmans, where my class DM11KNA and MGD10KNA is meeting for the UGL. I’m both excited and a little nervous.
I’ve heard a lot of stuff about the UGL, but at the same time I don’t really know what to expect. I do know that we have four days off after the course because it’s somewhat intense. What that means, I don’t know, but I’ll write some more later this week.
Just as I didn’t know that we were staying until 5pm yesterday, I didn’t know we where going to meet on Wednesday as well. But there were more information, this time about expectations and myths about the Hyper Island, and our presentations continued.
It hit me several times, both today and yesterday, that I’m really sitting here. Here at Ångan, listening to Maria, Sofie, and Sofie talking. And they are talking to me, me and my classmates. We are a part of Hyper Island from now on.
We finished before 4pm. The last thing we talked about was next Monday. That’s when the UGL (Understanding Group and Leader) begins. I’m both very excited and a little intimidated about this course. So let’s see what happens.
Today was my first day at Hyper Island. Ola, Sanna, Calle, Karin, and I met outside our apartments and walked together in the morning. It really felt like first day, just like first day of first grade. Everything is new, so many expectations and thoughts at the same time. And we all walked with a smile on our faces.
I didn’t know what we were doing this day, but I some how didn’t expect to be there until 5pm. But there were so much information, we got our email addresses and the access card to the facilities, and we also had to present our selves.
It was really cool to meet all my classmates. I “knew” some of them from Grafiskt Forum, MSN, and Facebook. I also met some of them during the admission days. There was still some I hadn’t met and our class is now a full number of 38 people.
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Now I have met so many of my classmates that I really think DM11KNA will be an amazing group of people. We are from all over the world (well Danny is from the U.S. and Åse is from Norway), we are from different kinds of environment, and the ages goes from 18 to 30, and we have done so many different things.
Right now we are all excited about school, we are why more relaxed then last time we saw each other – which was during the admission days and I’ve never been so nervous as I was then. We all hung out Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Last night, which was Sunday, eight of us had dinner together. Home made dinner. We were all eating, talking, and listening to music. We actually have our own DM11KNA music list at Spotify where all of us have added songs we like. After dinner we walked over to another apartment where five students are living together. Their apartment is sick. 4 meters to the ceiling, five gigantic rooms with a super nice kitchen…all spread out on 173 square meter. So we where sitting in one of the guys rooms, 15 of us, and talked until midnight.
