The Final Stretch

Greetings!

Thank you both for what I think was a very productive meeting yesterday. I think that the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel is truly in sight now. As we head towards Sunday's 3:00 meeting at my place, goals I think we should have in mind are:

1) Project schedule document - I just spent a few minutes working on the programming section of the document and it really didn't take very long. I went ahead and put in yellow boxes for a monthly team review meeting to happen one week before each of our meetings with Dr. Abed. I figured that would give us a chance to touch base and review any work in progress before running it by him. If you guys could fill in your respective sections at some point before Sunday, that would be great, and would be one more item to cross off the list.

2) "Detailed Sketches" (David S.) - Program interface, Print and CD looks for the binder. Also, if you could whip up a DaDaLi logo image that I could plug into the database that would be great, so that I could start printing final copies of the level three for the binder.

3) The dreaded Scripts! - I am going to do my best to get Silvia at the meeting Sunday. There are scripts remaining that I think we can handle like we did at Tuesday's meeting, but even looking over what they have sent us for some of the case study stuff - we need some explanation and clarification to continue. The bottom line is that we currently have 60 out of about 140 scripts complete, and I should be able to hack out about another 20-25 of the remaining ones that are more "technical" in nature. The remaining 55 or so really constitute all that we have left on the project prior to the 5th.

I think that is pretty much it for now. Thank you Lisa for completing the critique write-up, and thank you both for being the best team in the class! I will see you guys on Sunday.

P.S. - my address is 229 West Center Street, Southington, 06489. If you Mapquest it, just know that you will have to turn on to Raynor Street to get to our driveway (we are on the corner). We are the first driveway on the right - grey cape with green trim.

Pax - David (M)

Friday Update

Greetings all!

I just wanted to post a quick update on progress as we head towards Saturday's meeting.

1) Level III database: we now have something just over 100 pages "done" in the database (about 1/3 of the total). This means that all of the basic info is in there for those pages. Most of what I have worked on are the more "mechanical" pages, as opposed to content pages. These done pages still need thumbnail sketches and many still need scripts.

2) Level II flowchart: I think this is almost set to publish. I have a couple of questions that I want to bring up at tomorrow's meeting, but I think I have cleaned most things up from our meeting with Dr. Abed last Tuesday.

3) Meeting tomorrow: It seems like the best thing for us to focus on tomorrow is anything that is scripted content in the Big 5+1 part of the program. This includes nailing down the questions in each area, and covering tutorial content for each question and introductory stuff for each of the Big 5. Silvia should be able to be there, though I did hear from Marcie today that she is unavailable.

4) Critique: I will TRY to have my rubric sheet completed for tomorrow about the anorexia program. Would one of you be willing to write up our group commentary?

I am trying to set as a rough goal that for this Tuesday's class we pretty much have everything done for the introductory and Big 5+1 parts of the program. That way we can concentrate the last couple of weeks on the second half of the program in time to submit everything on the 5th. What do you guys think?

I will see you all tomorrow at 1:30 at David S's place!

David (M)

The final stretch:

Well, I know we have all sort of let this blog drift for the past several weeks, but I thought I would get a post up just to keep it going and current. I will probably be a few minutes late to class this afternoon due to a rehearsal here at school that I need to get started. I have been very encouraged by our progress the last couple of weeks and the results of our meetings with Silvia. Based on our last meeting, I have updated the level 2 flowchart for us to look at this evening with Dr. Abed. I think all of the major pieces are now at least in there in draft form. Still left on our to-do list for the last 2 weeks is:

• Level three (database) write-ups
• Gantt chart for summer production schedule
• Updated versions of project proposal and design plan to reflect recent changes
• Review of the Anorexia project

Lets talk this evening about how to split up these items among ourselves for the most efficient use of our time.

I continue to feel good (if not a bit overwhelmed) with the project and with our group, and I know we will turn in an exceptional product at the end of it all.

Thank you!