Week 10 Blog

Weekly Overview
This week in class we had to come together as a group to determine what else we needed to still complete for the Proposal presentation and recommendation report for the Center of Games and Impact. We looked over the information we already had completed and what else we needed to complete throughout the weekend.

Unfortunately, our group suffered the loss of a team member, which was our team leader, leaving us disoriented and trying to find our way to get our minds back in the project and the recommendation report. Since our team leader dropped the class, we now have to pick up the slack and add a greater work load on each team member.

Recently
I have recently created a skeleton Google document of what we would like the recommendation report to look like. I did this in order for all team members to have easy access to the document and fill in the spaces to the document as we come across the appropriate information.

It has been a bit difficult to gather all the information we need for the recommendation report because we cannot seem to find very much secondary research on the Center for Games and Impact. Although the due date for the recommendation report has arrived, we are honestly not even close to having the full project completed.

The schedules of all team member conflict with each other and we have not had any time to meet since our last class period to put our proposal presentation together for the next class period. Keeping the whole group updated and focused has become difficult due to the loss of our team leader.

Thankfully, we have gotten an extension on our recommendation report due date and I am still attempting to get a successful meeting time in place with the rest of the group in order to complete the oral presentation with the information we have found so far on the Center for Games and Impact.

References
To create the skeleton Google document for the recommendation report I used the example report on Chapter 19 in the Markel book. Pages 532 to 558 give an example on how to appropriately format a recommendation report. Using the advice and guidelines stated in the pages before the example, I was able to successfully create a skeleton that will be an advantage and of good use for the entire group and the preparation for the report.

In class we discussed the components of the report and what kind of information was going to be needed to fill each section appropriately. Asking advice from other groups and bouncing ideas off each other helped our group come to a decision on what parts of the report were going to be completed by what member of the group. We decided that it would be best if we would each fill the part of the report that we worked on for the research and previous information. For example, the person who conducted the primary research would fill out the section of the report that contained the primary research.

Chapter 17 was also a great help when it came to understanding the process of writing informational reports. Pages 468-469 shows Figure 17.1 in which it describes this process step by step. These steps were to analyze your audience, analyze your purpose, research the subject and compile your information, choose an appropriate format, draft the report and revise, edit, and proofread the report. These were helpful when it came to deciding how to best put our report together.

Looking Forward
I am looking forward to coming together with the rest of my team members to put our oral presentation together on time for the next class period. I am honestly hoping I can really count on my team members to follow through with their parts of the assignment and remaining research left to complete. I have done my best to create a skeleton of the oral presentation and recommendation report on Google documents that will be beneficial to all team members.

I am also looking forward to how our final presentation and recommendation report will turn out. I know that with the dedication and extra work of each team member we will be able to complete a successful project for the Center of Games and Impact.

Lastly, I am looking forward to seeing what each team has created and come up with for their oral presentations and recommendations for their chosen institutions. It will be very interesting to see what each group recommends for those institutions.

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