Individual Work Blog
Date: April 5, 2009
To: Professor Tirrell
From: Zebulon Rouse, Group 7
Subject: Individual Activity Report 1
This report is the summary of the progress toward the White Paper project, starting from the initial date (March 30) to today (April 5).
Throughout this week, I have sent out an email initiating the communication process among the group. From that point we had submitted topics which we were interested in.
After the topic was voted on (Smart Phones) we all split up the work into individual portions. The portions were elected on who was available to write this week.
My part this week was writing the group activity report. Following the completion of the report, I posted it on an account on Microsoft live, which Emil had set up earlier this week. After posting the report the rest of the group made their revisions and responded via email to tell me that it met their standards. Then I posted it on the course webpage.
Also I had written a portion for the proposal covering part of the research. I then sent it to Joey, so he could add it in with the other written parts of the proposal.
Later that day we had confusion among who was going to turn in the Proposal so I elected myself to submit the Proposal that was stored in the common space (Microsoft Live), to meet the due date.
From this week I am going to suggest to our group that we need to communicate better amongst ourselves.
re: Week 12 - Individual Activity Report - Rouse
There are some good specifics in this, but you'll want to explicate statements such as "From that point we had submitted topics which we were interested in." What did you submit? Also, I like that you close by anticipating what you will do next week, but you should provide specifics about how you will help the group communicate. Concrete contributions should be your focus, because they reveal what you individually added to the project. This is important, because your group mates will be reviewing these blogs later as a record of your value to the group.
Also, you don't need the header. I know it's used on the example we provided, but that was an emailed memo. Here it's unnecessary.