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// 1. Things to include - Your progress report should include the following items: // // a. Project title // // b. Team name & team member names // // c. Date // // d. Overall Project Status: progresses made, major decisions made, changes made // // e. Project Risks and Issues: problems encountered and possible solutions // // f. Evaluation & Lessons Learned // // g. // //Next Steps & Timeline//

a. Developing online guidelines for professors on the use of Jing as a tool to facilitate student-centered learning.

b. The 3 Wikiteers (Chip McAfee, Marc Hinds, Jennifer Johnston).

c. Monday, February 8, 2010.

d. **Overall Project Status.**
 * We are off to a slow start. The reason why is because we misunderstood what the goal of the project was all about. We thought that we were supposed to teach teachers how to use Jing on the most basic level in order to interact with their students. Instead, our intended audience has various levels of proficiency with Jing already and needs our expert assistance learning to use it more effectively.
 * Dr. An wrote on Fri 2/5/10 that she "[expects] you to become an expert in at least one small area. That's the goal of the group project!" As soon-to-be experts in Jing, we are supposed to instruct these professors on how to better utilize Jing, providing them with ideas, tips, best practices and suggestions.
 * We should have been spending our time these past two weeks reading literature on Jing in an effort to become "experts" in this field. Instead, we were unsure of what exactly the goal of our project was. Having spoken with Dr. An on Mon 2/7/10, we now have a much better understanding of our project's goal.
 * We successfully set up a wiki for this site (http://the3wikiteers.wikispaces.com/).
 * As we put together the group wiki and project plan on Sun 1/31/10, we used Google Docs so that we could work on the document live with each while talking on our cell phones.
 * We have spoken with each other on the phone several times and communicated via the wiki only a couple of times. We plan on using the wiki more as we communicate.
 * Our group physically met on Mon 2/7/10 evening at Big Jake's BBQ on Jefferson Ave. at 6:30 p.m. We finished writing this Project Progress Report #1 together, hammering out our plans for completing this project.

e. **Project Risks and Issues.**
 * Because Jing is such a cutting-edge technology, our search for literature review on it has been a little difficult. We are confident that in the next couple of days we will locate resources that will give us accurate information on the program's use in the educational world already.
 * It has been difficult finding good literature along these lines, but we are continuing to look on the Internet.
 * Because this project is due in only three weeks (Mon 3/1/10), we are behind.

f. **Evaluation and Lessons Learned.**
 * It's been difficult for our group not sitting down with an instructor and getting verbal communication. We very thankful that Dr. An has been so willing to meet with us and patiently explain the requirements. That's been a life-saver!
 * We also learned that we shouldn't assume that we know what the assignment. Rather, we should take Dr. An at her word and meet with her to find out what we're supposed to do.
 * We are getting back on track, but only after all three of us physically meeting together. We should have met sooner. In fact, we will meet again on Tue 2/16/10, even though we plan on communicating via the wiki in the meantime.

g. **Next Steps and Timeline.**
 * On page 1 of the four-page document, "Group Project," there are four bullet points. Because we are behind, we are going to follow these four bullet points, identifying them as sections. We need to complete through section 3 by Mon 2/15/10.
 * Section 1. Introduction to Web 2.0. This is a general discussion on the use of Web 2.0 as a tool for student-centered instruction.
 * Section 2. Discussion of Jing. This is a specific discussion on Jing. We must define it, identify what makes it unique and consider its potential for aiding in the teaching and learning processes.
 * Section 3. Current practices and critiques. Based on our literature review, we will reveal what the current practices are among those already using Jing in educational settings. As part of this, we will also give our critiques of these uses.
 * Sections 1-3 will be completed by Mon 2/15/10.
 * We will turn in Project Progress Report #2 on Mon 2/15/10. In this report, we will discuss in detail Section 4, which reveals our expert instructions on using Jing to its full potential in the classroom setting. We will work on Section 4 from Mon 2/15/10–Mon 3/1/10, which is only a two-week period.