Class Post 5

In our final full week of working on these two projects, my group worked on lot on organizing the “storefront” in preparation for our final presentations. Similar to last week, the majority of the focus during this week was directed towards the storefront project. After the New Year, calendars took a backseat to the storefront project. However, we still manage to sell a few calendars a week during our free time and are continuing to profit. We hope to keep making money all the way until the last day of second quarter, but it will not be as much as we originally imagined which is slightly disappointing. Overall, the calendar project went very well, as we broke even within the first three weeks of sales and made a profit for the athletic department with our success.

As we wrap up the calendar sales, the due date for our storefront project comes closer and closer. During this week, we focused a majority of our class time to creating the presentation. On Monday we drafted a script and PowerPoint presentation with only images representing each slide. On Tuesday we did a very dry run through of our presentation and received feedback from Ms. Stevens and Mr. Fischer. Wednesday was a confrontational day for my group as we discussed the overall work on the projects, group evaluations and participation grades. One member was very bothered by the amount of credit he was given based on the amount of the work he “did”. However, when we looked back through the projects it was clear to see that his grade equally reflected the amount of work he had done. I was absent on Thursday, but my group worked on editing our script and PowerPoint based on the feedback we received on Tuesday. Overall, I believe these two projects were a lot of fun and I hope you continue them in the future.