Our group met during class time today until 2:00 in the Wyman building to wrap things up for our presentation on Thursday. We finished our group report by adding in the table of contents and headers for each section of our paper. Andrea completed the outline. We read our final draft as a group up on the big screen and made sure everything was exactly how we wanted it.We completed our PowerPoint presentation, and decided which slides each group member would go over during our final presentation. We did a quick run through of our slides and practiced what we would say while presenting each slide. Doing this as a group, was very helpful as we each contributed and shared ideas about what should be addressed with each slide. We timed ourselves to get an estimate of how long our presentation will be to ensure that we reach the time requirement. We printed off our paper, discussed what we were going to wear for clothing, and called it a day!


Andrea is going to send each of us our PowerPoint slides and Nathan is going to email everyone a copy of our final report. Each of us is expected to practice our part of the presentation, and show up prepared to present on Thursday. We may decide to meet tomorrow night or Thursday before class to go over our presentation one last time!


Good job everyone! Proud of us!


Thursday we get 'er done!!!! :)




Katrina

Tuesday, November 25 Meeting

Tina, Nathan, Andrea, and Gina met for about an hour in Wyman to work on our paper some more as well as work on our presentation. Andrea did a great job putting together our Prezi presentation and we all did a good job collaborating on our paper.

Tuesday we met after class for 30 minutes to discuss our meeting on thursday and what we wanted to accomplish. Today, we all met for 3.5 hours in the University Center to write our group paper, and get started on our PowerPoint Presentation. It was a successful meeting, and we got a lot done. We are using class time tuesday to finalize our project and rehearse who is going to say what part during the final presentation.

Brief Nov. 6 Meeting

Tina, Nathan, Andrea, and Gina met for 15 minutes after class to discuss what data we want to collect.We thought it would be useful to ask friends from other universities if they have text messages when classes are canceled. This will be there start of collecting our data. Because we did not have all members present, we decided to set aside an hour next Thursday to meet and go over what all of our tasks are moving forward on our final project.

Hi Group 3! Here is the feedback on your presentation:

• What kind of security issues arise with texting notifications? Do they have access to info on our phones?
• How do you get word out about this idea?
• There is a lack of tech awareness, I was unaware of the texting service.
• I check my email every hour out of anxiety about this issue -- I hate it!
• This may not be a university problem. I feel like it is typically the students' fault for not checking email. Focus more on encouraging students to check their email or sign up for texts.
• Are there really that many class cancellations on campus for this to be a problem?
• Research how other campuses similar to our are dealing with the problem.
• How can you make students aware of text notifications?
• What other options are available to students besides the text notification?
• Is this text notification different from the safety and weather texts?
• How do you know professors hear a lot of complaints? How can we sign up for text alerts?
• How many people did you survey? How can we sign up?
• How are you going to make sure that students hear about the texts?
• Would professors actually use the new technology?
• Is text messaging the solution?
• And this one is from Grace :) I had no idea this option even existed, so I've no idea how it works or how to actually use it…but I'm intrigued!

Hey Guys!


First of all, thank you for guys for getting together to finish putting our group report together, I think it turned out really good! I'm glad everything worked out even though a couple of us had to work. I think we split up the paper really well and everyone did a nice job of fulfilling their portion of the paper... thank you Andrea for the beautiful color coding! :)


Moving on...


Today, we met for about 20 minutes just to discuss what our next steps will be. Since Tuesday we are going to be going over the final presentation guidelines in class, we decided over the weekend to just brainstorm and post ideas contributing to our final solution. I believe we have come up with some great ways to advertise, and got some good advice from our speaker today about how to get the word out about our problem/solution.


Some things we talked about doing: (please add ideas if you have any!)

• Creating a flyer to post around campus.
• Meeting with DoTS people again to help get the step by step directions on how to use the text message feature.
• Take a screen shot/photos of the steps to use in our advertising/PowerPoint/emails.
• Contacting the different colleges about getting the word out to their departments.
• Creating a PowerPoint to send out via email.
• Creating a TV advertisement.

I think we have come up with some great ideas that will help solve our problem.
I believe these solutions we came up with are attainable, and our problem will get solved!




***The plan for next week... after Tuesday's class we will pick a day to meet and create a plan of action to start putting our solutions into play and establish what needs to get accomplished to ensure a successful final presentation! :)


Have a great weekend everyone!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!


Katrina :)

Today Nathan, Tina, and I met for about 30 minutes to put together our Interim group paper. Katrina and Gina had work but sent us their portion of the paper. We read through our group paper to make sure everything evenly flowed together, and we also discussed what our next step should be in our project and coming up with a solution. We will fill in the other group members in class tomorrow!