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The Project Report #2 is due 2/15. As you all know, your progress report should include the following items:

1. Project title (1 point) 2. Team name & team member names (1 point) 3. Date (1 point) 4. Overall Project Status (5 points): - Progresses made - Major decisions made - Changes made 5. Project Risks and Issues (3 points): - Problems encountered (& what your team did to solve the problems) - Any critical issues 6. Evaluation & Lessons Learned (5 points): Evaluate your team's performance objectively and identify strengths, weaknesses and areas that could be improved. Also discuss lessons learned. - Strengths - Weaknesses - Improvements - Lessons learned (What have you learned? What would you do differently?) 7. Next Steps & Timeline (4 points) - What do you (as a team) plan to do next week and the following weeks? List specific tasks & activities and dates.

1. Developing online guidelines for professors on the use of Jing as a tool to facilitate student-centered learning. 2. The 3 Wikiteers (Chip McAfee, Marc Hinds, Jennifer Johnston). 3. Monday, February 15, 2010. 4. Overall Project Status (5 points): - Progresses made. Project is smoothly coming together. After we physically met with each other a week ago on Mon Feb 8, we realized that were behind schedule and needed to complete sections 3 from Feb. 9-15. - Major decisions made. Sections have been split up between us to best address our own personal strengths and weaknesses. Chip seems to currently be the resident Jing expert, and is going to tackle to body of the project, while Jennifer is going to handle the introduction and APA formatting. Marc has been a big help, by tackling the bulk of the progress reports along with being able to physically meet with Dr. An for our group. Throughout the evening of Mon 2-15, we posted our sections 1 and 2 for preliminary analysis before our next physical group meeting, which is tomorrow night, Tue 02-16-10. Over dinner, we plan on working on Section 3 together. - Changes made. Getting sections 1 and 2 proved to be all we could handle for the first week of serious work. As a result, we decided to work on Section 3 together when we meet tomorrow night in the Student Center at 5 PM.

5. Project Risks and Issues (3 points): - Problems encountered. Jennifer is a technological novice, yet has enormous experience with APA formatting; we decided it would be best to let her be in charge of the APA formatting for this reason. As well, the introduction to web 2.0 would be a good portion for her to write. Marc has garnered the job of editing and managing for our group while Chip is taking care of helping us become more Jing savvy so that we may best facilitate student-centered learning. - Any critical issues. Because Jing is a newer technology, we were having a difficult time finding resources. A big help was our Delicious project. Although performed individually, it allowed us to share our research and find many sites that provide a lot of different perspectives (although many overlap) and then report them to each other via our Delicious sites.

6. Evaluation & Lessons Learned (5 points): Evaluate your team's performance objectively and identify strengths, weaknesses and areas that could be improved. Also discuss lessons learned. - Strengths. We have our second meeting coming up, we have learned that the face to face facilitation seems to work best for our group as far as making judgment calls on our project. - Weaknesses. Currently, we are still slightly behind on the project which has made us learn to manage the time we have left in a more productive manner. - Improvements. We have really learned how to work as a team and best utilize all available resources, including implementing new pages on our wiki for discussion along with conference calls and multimedia messages. - Lessons learned. In the future, we would definitely want to meet face-to-face earlier and get off on the right foot with our group members. Talking with the professor and making sure we understand the expectations of the project would have been ideal.

7. Next Steps & Timeline (4 points). -Posting Sections 1 and 2 on Mon 2-15-10 -Group meeting: Tue 2-16-10 5:00 P.M. in the Student Center (meet over dinner). -Progress Report #3 due 2-22-10. Like this past week, we will continue to use the wiki (although we also still call each other talk about the project some) and build on our work. -Final Project due Mon 3-01-10 (that's just two weeks away!). We will work together Sun 2-28 and Mon 3-1 to get the project finalized and turned in.