15/5 # 5

Wow, sorry this is late:-( But for reason it slipped my mind yesterday and I didn’t remember until 1:00 a.m. as I was getting ready to go to sleep. It’s been a very busy week for me, as yesterday was my last day at my internship. I had about four projects to wrap up for this internship, which I was just given two weeks ago, so I have been laboriously working on getting those completed. I am just happy it is finally over and now I can focus solely on my schoolwork.

In regards to the project, we finally received the complete content from Dr. Powell on Sunday evening. In reference to this, we decided to cancel our usual Sunday meeting and review the content individually so that we can each become more familiar with it on our own and develop concrete ideas on how to move forward. We plan to meet tonight to share what we have found and collaborate to begin working on how the content will flow and what resources we will need. Also, last Thursday we decided to begin working on the upcoming documents that are due on Oct. 9 (User profile, treatment rationale, Hardware/Software and Screen Design). Each document was assigned to one person on the team, and we plan to work on these and discuss them in Sunday’s meeting. For the evaluation plan, which is also due that day, I did not assign this to any one person, as I believe we should discuss it as a team first, so my plans for this is to begin discussing it in tonight’s meeting. However, as I plan for tonight’s meeting, I don’t think there will be time enough time, as we will be trying to hash out other issues with the content, so I am thinking I will just leave it for our Sunday night meeting.

As for what I did this week, I continued working on the screen design from last week and was able to develop the first draft of our potential main interface. Personally, I am not sure if I like it, but considering that I have been staring at it on my computer screen for what seems like forever and day; I believe my feelings are not very rationale right now. I sent the design to the rest of the team and they seemed to like it a lot, so maybe I just need to take a break from it to see its true beauty:-) This week I also worked on reviewing the content and completing the project timeline documentation.

I hope we can get a lot accomplished in tonight’s meeting so that we can begin forging ahead and actually have tasks that we can assign to our 6200 consultants, before it is too late!

For the upcoming week we plan to:

1. Continue content review
2. Develop concrete ideas for the flow of each section of the project
3. Continue working on main page screen design
4. Begin working on HTML content page design
5. Continue working on the User Profile, Treatment Rationale and Hardware/Software documentation.
6. Begin initial discussions for Evaluation Plan