Scheduling and Logistics

As we embark in the eve of a new semester, it is all about logistics and getting things on their way. We are all seniors in the suffle of classes, red-tape, and getting the nitty gritty done to be able to graduate this coming spring. My other partners were trying to get a hold of Megan, and she being as busy, if not busier than we are was just able to get a hold of us back. This week I was finally able to fully get my schedule on track and confirm. Right now, we are mainly just finalizing meeting times, and logistics.

We do have some big ideas though. I recently thought of creating a YouTube channel for using Microsoft Access Tutorials. We can use this help teach us how to use Access, and then we can potentially use them to help out the Admin team. We might be able to pass this channel on to the admin team if all goes as plan, but we are still more or less piloting this idea.

First Post of the New Year and Updates

Hurrah! It's 2012! The Peck Admin Team is very optimistic going into this new year of 2012! This is the year of action and execution! We have dabbled with Microsoft Access during the New year. Now we are just awaiting Megan's response in terms of availability. But once we get the green light on when she's available, we'll have to coordinate that with all of our schedules. Then we'll be ready to go, and get all the details we need to start.

Team Paper, and Project Proposal: The Road Ahead

The team has been hard at work in terms of figuring and executing the task at hand. We have been trying to figure out all the details in terms of what the database will be consist of. Our project proposal, Team Papers, and our other crucial assignments are completed for the fall Semester. Right now, we already know what means we will use to conduct our project. The Peck School already has the entire Microsoft Office Suite, which is nice and cost effective for our purposes. Now the only thing will lie in having to learn how to use Access. There are various resources available on the internet like YouTube and other streaming video sites which offer many tutorials. Our team looking ahead plans on looking and learning from them.

Team Meeting Thursday/Friday December 8/9th

The team met to work on the paper. When we met on Dec 5th we also assigned parts of the paper to each member.

-Kelsey: proposal and project variables

-Charly: PECK and their needs

-Eleni: PECK's key goals and objectives, addressing sustainability issue, and added value to PECK

-Seyi: project execution: what plan to do, timeline, what we need

On Friday we met to edit, finalize, and submit the paper.

Team Meeting Monday December 5th

The team met to finish the slides for the presentation, edit them, and practice what we were saying. We gave each other input on what to say during each part of the presentation. Later that day we made a Google Doc to the presentation script. The slides were not created to be too wordy or overwhelming, so to make sure we said everything necessary during the presentation, Eleni suggested we make a script and practice key points. This way we could give each other suggestion on what to add/delete.

Team Meeting Sunday December 4th

The team met to outline the Presentation we had on Tuesday December 6th about out project Proposal.

assignments for slides and talking during presentation:

-Eleni does community service pedagogy and info on Holyoke and PECK

-Charly does timeline

-Kelsey does value of project

-Seyi does specific about project: Access vs Drupel

Meeting with Prof. Gal: Access Info

Thursday December 1, 2011

-Access is capable of what we want it to do (to date)

-need to know: number of questions

number of options

what types of comments

responses in number scale, box, or drop-down menu

can limit text characters if want

-questions: need to set up formula to calculate a numbers or is Hyry inputing numbers?

what if wifi in school is down?

-when testing form, need to make sure can complete it in 10 minutes

-ipad affects how you test the form and length if description (don't want lengthy text because screen is smaller than on a laptop

-need more specific and detail to move forward in making the form with Prof. Gal!