I decided to combine the last mini project and the Final Project into one here…

This has been an eye opening experience to say the least.  In the last mini project, we covered the Search API,  Search Administration, the Document and Records Center and Information Management Policies. This was a lot to go over in a short bit of time, but we did get it done.

If this course had been longer, I don’t know what I would have done. It was totally worthwhile, but it certainly was a lot of information to cover. I was finally glad to get it done, so that we could do our Final Project.  Right now, we’re almost finished.  Next week, we will finish up and make our presentation to the staff.  The Final Project is a team project.  This is good because it more replicates working in a real team environment. You find your strong points and even more important, you find your shortcomings.  Just a hint for those coming into this program – when you find your shortcomings, that’s the thing for which you volunteer in the project creation. That way,  you can brush up on the things you might have forgotten.

The Final Project does present its own challenges. We’re not in the same physical building, we’re all over the country (or world, as our class is) so organization and sharing files sometimes becomes difficult,  but as I’ve seen,  it can be done.

At first, when I saw the specs for the final project,  I was a little blown away and frightened.  I wondered how we could actually do this.  But now that we’re a couple of days from the end,  not only did I find out it can be done,  but it’s added new strengths, skills and capabilities to my repertoire which I wasn’t expecting at all.

Like I said earlier, this has definitely been an eye-opening experience, but it’s one that I would not trade.  It’s landed me in a place where there is nothing but an open future, adding to my .Net knowledge and creating a whole new world of possibilities.