The Final Week

I can't believe it is already time for finals, it seems like this semester really flew by. This week in class the remaining groups presented their projects, which included our group. We met up as a group on Wednesday to divide up the slides and finalize our powerpoint presentation. We also found a video to include in our presentation about women who had been victims of domestic violence. Overall I think that our presentation went really well. The only thing that I was worried about was making it last the 50 minute time limit, but we had no problem doing that. I really enjoyed working with this group and I hope that all other groups I work with in the future will work together as smoothly as this one did.

-Katherine

Getting to the End

This semester is wrapping up rather fast, and all we have left to do is listen to other people present and do our group's presentation as well. Listening to the group present on Friday, I didn't realize just how many pumpkins that they ended up carving for the kids. I was really impressed at the amount of work that they got done even with their setbacks of a little bit of chaos. For our group, basically we just need to meet and go through our presentation and then we should be ready. I've enjoyed this class and I've really enjoyed working with my group.

-Katherine

One More Week

With my class work really piling up this week, it was nice to take a break and listen to presentations this week. I particularly enjoyed the first presentation this week from the B&G Clubbers. It was interesting how all of the challeges they faced were overcome and they still were able to have a successful service learning project. This weekend or the beginning of next week I believe our group will be gettting together one last time to go over our presentation. All of our material is put together and included on our slides for our presentation. So our last meeting shouldn't last very long. All we have to do is work out the little things at this point. I look forward to our presentation next week.

Andrew F.

Turkey Made Me Forget

I am a little late on this blog, but I am going to blame it on the delicious turkey that I ate last week. It was good to get away from school work for a while and to spend some time with my family. We always have big meals and it is always good to talk with family that I do not get to see very often. Our group did a good job on Monday of getting the content into our PowerPoint and now we just need to spruce it up a little bit. We will need to meet outside of class one or two more times to finalize our presentation, but we are really close to being finished. I hope that everyone had a good break and was able to catch up on some rest.

Zach M.

Last Week

This past week, we only had class on Monday due to Thanksgiving break. During our class we spent time working again on our final presentation of our service learning project. We are coming along well. I think that we will have enough material to cover to fill the entire hour. We spent time creating slides and brainstorming topics to present to the class. Our group presents last, which gives us plenty of time to get together outside of the classroom and continue working on our presentation.

Andrew F

Short Week

This week of class was extremely short due to being Thanksgiving break, therefore we only had one day of class. Today in class was another workday and we worked more on our powerpoint for our final presentation. We have a really good basic outline, and we're working towards filling it all in. I think the biggest problem we may face is filling the required time slot of presenting. A whole class period is a pretty significant amount of time to talk. Once we add some "rich" media we shouldn't have a problem making the presentation last the whole time period. We still have some time to get everything completed, and we are the last group to present so that also works in our favor.

-Katherine

Getting It All Done

Today we met as a group in class and finished organizing our final presentation. Our group is the last group to give their presentation, so it gives us plenty of time to practice it. We plan on meeting a couple of days before our presentation to go back over everything and practice.
This class has been a good investment for me overall. Small groups come about in almost every aspect of life, so it is important to know how to make those groups work successfully. Performing the service learning project showed that even helping others requires people to come together and work toward a common goal.
The Guardians of B230 have been the easiest, most competent group I think I have ever worked with. We all got along so great and knew that we all wanted the same things out of this group as the others, and I believe that is why we worked so well together.

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