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!

Tuesday

I saw over email that a couple of our team members wanted to meet before class to go over our presentation.  I have class right before our class so i won't be able to meet up but if anyone wanted to meet Monday night at some point i could do that!

I feel bad that I was not able to make on Thursday to finish up the Power Point but I was not feeling well. I read through the Power Point and Outline and it looks great! I think our topic will interest a lot of students and will be helpful to them.

My Survey Results

I decided to post my five survey results on here for our meeting tomorrow! All surveyed are UWRF students. Below are the list of our survey questions, and their responses to each:

1. Do you have a smart phone?
2. Have you ever gone to class not knowing it was canceled due to not checking your school email beforehand?
3. Are you aware of the options available on your school email to send you text messages?
4. Would you prefer receiving a text message when a class is canceled?

Emily - Senior

1. Yes

2. Yes

3. No

4. Yes

Avery - Sophomore

1. Yes

2. Yes

3. No

4. Yes

Sammy - Senior

1. Yes

2. No

3. No

4. Yes

Ceci - Senior

1. Yes

2. Yes

3. No

4. Yes

Zach - Junior

1. Yes

2. Yes

3. No

4. Yes

Meeting Minutes - October 14
We met in the library today from 12:30-1:25p.m.
We worked on our powerpoint for our project and got very far! We came up with survey questions to ask five students by Thursday.
We also plan to meet again on Thursday, October 15th.

Grace, Nathan and I (Tina) should show up now on the blog...can you see us?

Hello group!


Gina, I am glad you finally got in! For some reason it is still not showing Nathan and Tina, although they have both posted comments on the blog?! We need to figure this out and make sure everyone is getting points for participating because everyone has been participating and posting on the blog.


We will be meeting tomorrow after class. We need to start getting surveys out too so we can use that information in our presentation. We need to start our PowerPoint either tomorrow (Tuesday) after class or Thursday after class.


So for tomorrow everyone bring your ideas for the PowerPoint and survey Qs!


Hope you all had a great weekend! See ya tomorrow!


Katrina :)

I finally was able to figure out how to sign in and work this blog!! So it seems like tomorrow (Tuesday) we are going to chat with Grace for a few minutes after class to make sure our topic will work. We will meet after class and start working on the Power Point and hopefully meet again on Thursday to finish things up and be ready to present next week.

10/2/14

Today we met for 30 minutes after class and got more information from DOTS about the services that are available to students through email. We further discussed our proposal plan, and what the next step is!

Problem: Lacking communication/advertising in alternative email (or texting) services provided for students
Cause & effects: Not everyone has a smart phone to directly receive their emails on. This becomes an issue when a class is canceled and someone does not have their computer on them and they end up going to class which results in angry students, wasted time, and even frustrated professors due to the complaints, etc. We have great services and organizations on campus to help with these kind of situations, however they are not communicated and or advertised to students on campus. 

Survey questions to ask other UWRF students if they are aware of the text message/email options available to them:
1. Do you have a smart phone?
2. Have you ever gone to class not knowing it was canceled due to not checking your school email beforehand?
3. Are you aware of the options available on your school email to send you text messages?
4. Would you prefer receiving a text message when a class is canceled?

Side note: There has also been other occasions when a professor has canceled class in a short notice which doesn't give students much time to check their email because that student may be coming to class straight from work, or straight from another class, etc.

Thursday Meeting!

Hey Guys!

I would have to say today's meeting has been our most successful meeting yet. During our 35 minute meeting we collected some good info from the DoTS guys about different solutions to our problem. They were very helpful and kind sharing ideas and possibilities for our project. We will definitely be meeting with them again at a later time during our project.

A challenge we are facing is how to word our issue as we need to keep it narrow and easy to understand. Grace maybe you can help us with that!

After our meeting with the DoTS guys, we pulled out the guidelines for our project focusing on what we need to accomplish in our short presentation.

Over the weekend:

• Brainstorm and answer the questions that are stated under the short presentation guidelines. (What is the problem? Causes/effects? Why a concern at UWRF?)

• We will each post our answers on the blog by Tuesday next week. 

• On Thursday we plan to meet and go over the answers we all submitted, sharing ideas which we will then summarize and put on our PowerPoint presentation. 

• Formulate possible survey questions we will ask UWRF students and staff.

Glad to see after today's meeting we are getting the ball rolling! Looking forward to seeing all the ideas we come up with over the weekend!

Have a great weekend everyone!