Our group met in an AIM chat room to discuss which group members will be writing their own part on a topic needed for the brochure. I typed my part on the information about the CFRC Christmas Day Dinner. Our group had decided the night before on a time to meet the following where everyone could meet at the same time. I emailed all the members my section to review. Once our group met the following night, we exchanged all of our parts to be reviewed and put together our brochure.
Week 6 was really busy for me as well as my group members. In this week we managed to get our first drafts ready of both the general information brochure as well as the caring for your pet brochure. We communicated through emails and helped each other with questions. Since I was in charge for researching the topic, beginning last weekend, I started working on it. Researching is not an easy job and especially when we have too much information. I collected all the information I could. Kim and I divided the work equally among both of us. She took a set of topics and I took another.
We started out week 6 by assigning individual parts of the brochure. Meepa, Beth, and I wrote the articles for the brochure. After we finished our individual articles, we emailed them to Pat, who was in charge of putting them together and working on the design. I think we did a pretty good job of sticking to the original plans and keeping the communication going. We have continued to use email as our main source of communication. After finishing the first draft, we have all come up with some good ideas for the next draft.
Over the weekend, I e-mailed the members of my group about the upcoming week’s rough draft due. Each member started thinking of ideas and researched the Community Family and Resource Center. We met in a group chat on AIM on Monday night and shared our ideas. We also divided the textual part of the brochure between each member. We agreed to meet again on Tuesday night and I sent out a reminder e-mail with the time for both time zones and which part each member was supposed to write. I wrote about the volunteer opportunities.
This week was very busy the our group. I was unable to contribute to the first draft of the brochure because of family problems. On Sunday I wrote the Activity Report for the group, which was one on my responsibilities from the Gnatt chart. I continued to communicate with my group through the wiki page that was provided. This has been an effective tool in eliminating confusion about were we can exchange ideas. Since I did not work on the first draft I have spent this week reviewing the brochure my group submitted and taking notes on things I thought could be changed.
This past week has been a very busy week for our group. Together we put together two very nice brochures. We decided to use Microsoft Publisher as our desktop publishing software. This is supposed to be a very simple program to use, and it allows us to put together a very professional brochure. The downside to this program is that I do not have Microsoft Publisher on my computer. This has limited me to only editing and sending pictures and content for the brochure.
This week we actually started our project and got the ball rolling. We started out the week by reviewing our Gantt chart and began working on our assigned materials. We have kept the lines of communication open quiet well and we are still effectively using email as our main source.
This week my team worked on the first draft of our brochure. The week began with me writing the pervious weeks report to the professor. On Monday I met my team in an AIM chat room. This allowed us to discuss our project and the plans we have for it. We decided to break up parts of the project so that each person could work and then we could get together later. I was responsible for creating a statement on how people can volunteer. On Tuesday our team again met in a chat room and we all reviewed each others statements.
This week I met online on Tuesday with Melissa Wood and Melissa Michels and we discussed the parameters of the assignment. Erik could not meet with us at that time because he works nights while the other group members have an internship in the morning and in the afternoon. In our meeting we planned out the contents of the brochure and the order of the information we were providing. We spent a while reading the website talking about the requirements for assignment and how were we going to split up the work.
Our group was very productive this week. We all worked very hard to get our first draft done on time and I think we all contributed equally. However, we had one problem this week. Nick had some personal issues that affected his work, although I believe that the group responded very well to the situation. Everyone was understand and all stepped up to complete the necessary work to complete our brochure. Stephanie and Nick were in charge of the text, while Rachel and I were responsible for the design.