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Chris, Deniel, Derrick and Lian Meeting Minutes 12-3-14

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Group 5: Chris, Deniel, Derrick, Lian

Location 1: Computer Lab

December 5, 2014; 4:30pm-6:00pm

Location 2: Online; Skype

December 6, 2014 2:00pm-3:00pm

 

Discussion

  • To work on the first draft of the final paper
  • Final revision of the survey
  • Distribute surveys and collect data
  • Make analyses based on data received from the surveys
  • Make adjustments to the memo

Preparations for the next class

  • Started First draft of the final paper
  • Organize compiled information from the survey
  • Complete rationale for the surveys
  • Bring in the completed memo

Plans for the following week

  • Complete distribution of surveys and compile all data
  • Finish the final paper
  • Prepare the presentation in power point

 

Minutes respectfully compiled and submitted by Deniel Boodoo

Chris, Deniel, Derrick and Lian Report 5

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Group 5: Chris, Deniel, Derrick, Lian

Professor Jill Belli

ENG 3773

Progress Report #5

 

On December 5, 2014 4:30pm to 6:30pm the group held a meeting at the computer lab in City Tech to discuss how to organize the first draft of the final write-up. We felt that we did not hand out enough surveys so a proper analysis would probably not be done, so we used the information we had currently for the time being. Since our project is to support City Tech’s computer club we wanted to collect enough data so it would seem more accurate to write a proper memo to the computer club giving recommendations on ways to improve. For the time being we’ve made an analysis based on the data we received from the surveys, more surveys will be distributed to obtain additional information later on to insure we get more accurate data. Also we realized that our memo that goes with the survey was a bit too long so we made some adjustments by taking only the key points and making them into bullet points. With the key points made clearer it would make taking the survey significantly faster while still being able to inform students on what the computer club really does and how can they benefit the students.

Wrapping Up the Semester

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Can you believe it?? This coming week is the final week of class! Below is everything you need to know about what needs to happen between now and the last day of the semester.

Group Conferences to Discuss Final Projects Write-Up Drafts
Each group has a schedule out-of-class 1/2 hour conference with me, in my office hours (this will be the primary source of individualized feedback on your first draft of the write-up), and as a result, I will be holding (very) extended offices to make sure that there is plenty of time for us to discuss your work.

Groups may meet with me multiple time to discuss multiple drafts, at any time up until our last day of class (W 12/17)

*Reminder: if your group does not turn in a complete first draft by the due date (Tu 12/9 at 11:59pm), you forfeit your right to all feedback (including conferences with me) on the project

W 12/10
2:00-2:30pm: City Tech App Group
2:30-3:00pm: Circuit Board Game Group

4:30-5:00pm: Student Success Group

Th 12/11
11:30am-12:00pm: Computer Club Group
12:00-12:30pm: Video Game Group

Regular Office Hours
If you need to see me for anything, my last days of office hours until the start of the Spring 2015 semester are Tu 12/16 (11:15am-12:15pm) and W 12/17 (2-3pm), and by appointment those days.

Final Project Presentations & End-of-the-Semester Party (yay!)
All groups will present in class on W 12/17. Please visit the Presentations page on our course site for more details on this assignment

We will also be celebrating the end of the semester, so I encourage you to bring in snacks to share with the class and we can enjoy refreshments during the presentations (I will bring in some goodies as well). Please leave a “reply” to this post letting us know what you will bring, so we have a good mix of refreshment (things like cups, paper plates, and napkins are also important items to bring). Looking forward to your presentations next week :)

Final Project Write-Up
The collaboratively written final draft of the Final Project as well as individual final project reflections are due no later than the start of class on W 12/17. Please visit the Final Project Write-Up page and Individual Final Project Reflection page on our site for more details on these assignments.

Final Course Reflections
Your Individual Final Course Reflection is due in class on W 12/17 (this is a mandatory–not optional–assignment). Please visit the Final Course Reflection page on our site for more details on this assignment.

Final Course Grades
The deadline for professors to submit final course grades for the Fall 2014 semester is M 12/29 at midnight (though I plan to have them submitted much sooner than this deadline). Please wait to view your course grade online through CUNYfirst (I will not be giving out final course grades via e-mail). Once you see your final grade posted online, you should feel free to e-mail me for your final exam grade (you have all of your other grades already).

Final grades are non-negotiable, though I am always more than happy to discuss them/your work with you at any point in person. If you would like to discuss any of your grades/receive additional feedback on the final assignments/exams, you should e-mail me to schedule an appointment to discuss your work when we return to campus at the end of January when the new semester starts up.


Thank you, & stay in touch!
Finally, it was a pleasure to work with you all this semester. I wish you the best of luck wrapping up the semester and on your final exams, and in your future endeavors at City Tech and beyond. You all worked incredibly hard this semester, and I really appreciate your consistent effort and good cheer day in and day out (especially for a 2 1/2 hour class during lunchtime!). I hope you enjoyed yourselves and learned a lot about technical writing, collaboration, reflection, critical thinking, reading, and writing. Have a wonderful winter break, & don’t hesitate to be in touch in future semesters to discuss your work in this course/beyond, and/or to just say hi  :)

Calvin, Ogulcan and Rosa Progress Report 5

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Progress Report #5 (12/3/2014-12/9/2014)

This week we met every day to work on the project and on 12/5/2014, we had a Skype call to discuss the content learned from the lecture by professor Belli. The main tasks during the week geared towards the completion of the first draft of the project. We began by fine tuning the selected questions to ensure that they would collect the necessary data, compilation of the introduction and the literary background, selection and documentation of data analysis methods, assembly of the results and discussion, formation of the presentation, formatting of the paper and a thorough revision of the final version of the first draft of the paper.

The first five meetings all focused on making sure that all the questions collected for the study had solid rationale for their inclusion on the questionnaire. They had to be both valid and reliable to enable the collection of accurate and informative data. After the survey questions were ready, the introduction became sublime and we were able to compile it within a single seating. The introduction matched the rationale guided by the questions that we selected from the ones that were available to us. Once the introduction was done, we went on to complete the methods and discussion sections, a feat achieved by dividing the work amongst team members. By the final meeting, the entire draft was complete with a table of contents, data analysis, an appendix and graphics.

The main obstacle faced during the week was the refinement of the questions selected for the survey and the lecture from Professor Belli went a long way in offering valuable clarification. Once that section was ready, the rest of the draft fell into place and the first draft of the project is ready to be present.

Calvin, Ogulcan, Rosa, Meeting Minutes 12-3-14

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Meeting Minutes #4

Online virtual meeting via Skype – 3 December 2014
Meeting called to order at 8:00 PM by Calvin Lo
Members present:
Rosa Cedano, Ogulcan Gol

Reading of Agenda:

To discuss some of the questions in our survey that we needed to edit and revise and the rationale accordingly.
New Business:
• Discussed about the feedback from Professor Belli.
o Tried to tackle each of her points the best of our abilities.
• Edited the questions of the survey.
• Rewrite the rationale.
o Edit the rationale we created in class accordingly.
• Finish and submitted our rationale for the survey.
Adjourned at 11:00 PM
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Meeting Minutes
Online virtual meeting via Skype – 4 December 2014
Meeting called to order at 10:00 PM by Calvin Lo
Members present:
Ogulcan Gol
Reading of Agenda:
To discuss the suggestions and feedback from Professor Belli about our rationale and revised our questions.
New Business:
• Discussed the rationale feedback from Prof. Belli.
• Do some additional research relevant to our survey.
• Revised the survey questions based on the feedback.
Adjourned at 11:30 PM
Meeting Minutes
Online virtual meeting via Skype – 5 December 2014
Meeting called to order at 12:30 PM by Calvin Lo
Members present:
Ogulcan Gol
Reading of Agenda:
To more research and thought about additional questions relevant to our survey and remove questions that were redundant.
New Business:
• Carefully reviewed our questions and omitted questions that were redundant.
• Added questions about engagement in lectures.
• Researched questions about chairperson and created question related to chairperson.
Adjourned at 3:30 PM
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Meeting Minutes
Online virtual meeting via Skype – 5 December 2014
Meeting called to order at 8:30 PM by Calvin Lo
Members present:
Ogulcan Gol, Rosa Cedano
Reading of Agenda:
To more research and thought about additional questions relevant to our survey and remove questions that were redundant.
New Business:
• Brainstormed new questions from additional research.
o Because we omitted some questions, we needed to create new questions to replace them.
• Reviewed of our deliverables.
• Finalized our revised survey.
• Finalized our new rationale.
• Posted revised survey and rationale on OpenLab.
• Discuss how to proceed with the first draft of the final report.
Adjourned at 10:00 PM

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Meeting Minutes
Online virtual meeting via Skype – 6 December 2014
Meeting called to order at 2:30 PM by Calvin Lo
Members present:
Rosa Cedano
Reading of Agenda:
To start the first draft of our report and start the introduction section.
New Business:
• Briefly review what should be included in our introduction.
• Research on how to write an introduction for a report.
Adjourned at 4:00 PM
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Online virtual meeting via Skype – 6 December 2014
Meeting called to order at 8:30 PM by Calvin Lo
Members present:
Ogulcan Gol, Rosa Cedano
Reading of Agenda:
To start working on the body section of our report which are data analysis, methods and results.
New Business:
• Briefly review what should be included in our method section.
• Research on how to write the methods section for a report.
o Our findings were that it is split into 4 components. Data, Methods, Data Analysis and Results.
o Decided to omit the Data component as it might be too similar to the data analysis section.

• Conceptualized what should be included in the data analysis section.
• Created cover page and table of content.
• Updated the annotated bibliography.
Adjourned at 10:00 PM
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Meeting Minutes
Online virtual meeting via Skype – 7 December 2014
Meeting called to order at 2:30 PM by Calvin Lo
Members present:
Ogulcan Gol
Reading of Agenda:
Revise/edit the report and further work on the body section.
New Business:
• Carefully reviewed and edited introduction and data analysis.
• Carefully reviewed and edited the methods sections.
• Meeting Complete.
Adjourned at 4:00 PM
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Meeting Minutes
Online virtual meeting via Skype – 8 December 2014
Meeting called to order at 8:30 PM by Calvin Lo
Members present:
Ogulcan Gol, Rosa Cedano
Reading of Agenda:
To finish up the introduction and presentation of the first draft of our final write up and start working on the appendices.
New Business:
• Review what we have done so far and what else needs to be worked on.
• Started to create and organize the appendix section.
• Finished up our methods and data analysis.
Adjourned at 11:30 PM

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Online virtual meeting via Skype – 9 December 2014
Meeting called to order at 2:30 PM by Calvin Lo
Members present:
Ogulcan Gol
Reading of Agenda:
To begin the conclusion, begin create graphs to visually represent our results.
New Business:
• Started working on our visuals.
o Copy our results from GoogleForms and paste it into Excel in order to separate each checkbox answer into its own cell and count it for a numerical answer.
• Started writing the conclusion section.
Adjourned at 4:30 PM
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Meeting Minutes
Online virtual meeting via Skype – 9 December 2014
Meeting called to order at 8:30 PM by Calvin Lo
Members present:
Ogulcan Gol, Rosa Cedano
Reading of Agenda:
Finish and finalize our first draft of the report and submit it to Dropbox
New Business:
• Carefully review all the sections of our write up.
• Finish up on the visuals.
• Compile everything into one document.
• Submit our first draft of report.
Adjourned at 11:30 PM

Calvin, Ogulcan, Rosa, Agenda 12-3-14

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Agenda #4

Date: December 3, 2014

Time: 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Place: Online virtual meeting via Skype

Meeting called by: Calvin Lo

Attendees: Ogulcan Gol, Rosa Cedano

Objective:  to discuss about some of the questions that we need to rephrase and compose and the rationale behind each question.

Agenda:

8:00 PM          Discussed about the feedback from Professor Belli.

8:30 PM          Rephrase and compose the questions of the Survey.

9:00 PM          Write the rationale behind each question.

10:00 PM        Finish and submit our rationale for survey

11:00 PM        Meeting complete.

 

Date: December 4, 2014

Time: 10:00 PM to 11:30 PM

Place: Online virtual meeting via Skype

Meeting called by: Calvin Lo

Attendees: Ogulcan Gol

Objective: To discuss the suggestions and feedback from Professor Belli about our rationale and revised our questions.

Agenda:

10:00 PM        Discuss rationale feedback from Prof. Belli.

10:20 PM        Do additional research relevant to our survey.

11:00 PM        Revised the survey questions.

11:30 PM        Meeting complete

 

Date: December 5, 2014

Time: 12:30 PM to 2:00PM

Place: Online virtual meeting via Skype

Meeting called by: Calvin Lo

Attendees: Ogulcan Gol

Objective: To more research and thought about additional questions relevant to our survey and remove questions that were redundant.

Agenda:

12:30 PM        Carefully review questions that were not significant in our survey.

12:45 PM        Added questions about engagement in lectures.

1:30 PM          Thought about rationale and added questions about chairperson

3:30 PM          Meeting adjourned.

 

Date: December 5, 2014

Time: 8:30 PM to 10:00 PM

Place: Online virtual meeting via Skype

Meeting called by: Calvin Lo

Attendees: Ogulcan Gol, Rosa Cedano

Objective: To create a revised survey based on our sources and start developing new questions.

Agenda:

8:35 PM          Added new questions based on new research.

9:00 PM          Went over our deliverables.

9:15 PM          Finalized our Survey

9:25 PM          Finalized the rationale and posted it on OpenLab.

9:17 PM          Briefly discuss our next steps to start our first draft of the final write up

10:00 PM        Meeting Complete.

 

Date: December 6, 2014

Time: 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM

Place: Online virtual meeting via Skype

Meeting called by: Calvin Lo

Attendees:  Rosa Cedano

Objective: To start the first draft of our write up and finish up the introduction section.

Agenda:

2:35 PM          Briefly review what content should be included in the write up.

3:00 PM          Begin to do our introduction.

3:30 PM          Review our deliverables.

3:55 PM          Finished up the introduction.

4:00 PM          Meeting Complete

 

Date: December 6, 2014

Time: 8:30 PM to 10:00 PM

Place: Online virtual meeting via Skype

Meeting called by: Calvin Lo

Attendees: Ogulcan Gol, Rosa Cedano

Objective: To start working on the body section such as data analysis, methods and results.

Agenda:

8:35 PM          Started writing the method section.

9:20 PM          Stated working on the data analysis sections.

9:15 PM          Carefully analyzed the rationale of our questions.

9:25 PM          Created a cover page and table of contents.

9:17 PM          Updated the annotated bibliography.

10:00 PM        Meeting Complete

 

Date: December 7, 2014

Time: 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM

Place: Online virtual meeting via Skype

Meeting called by: Calvin Lo

Attendees: Ogulcan Gol

Objective: Continued working on the body such as data analysis, methods, and results.

Agenda:

2:30 PM          Edited introduction and data analysis.

3:30 PM          Edited the Methods sections.

4:00 PM          Meeting Complete

 

Date: December 8, 2014

Time: 8:30 PM to 11:30 PM

Place: Online virtual meeting via Skype

Meeting called by: Calvin Lo

Attendees: Ogulcan Gol, Rosa Cedano

Objective: To finish up the body of the first draft of our final write up and start working on the appendices.

Agenda:

8:30 PM          Review what we have done so far and what we need to do moving forward.

9:00 PM          Further revise introduction and background.

9:40 PM          Started to create and organize the appendix.

10:20PM         Finished up our methods and data analysis

11:30PM         Meeting complete

Date: December 9, 2014

Time: 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM

Place: Online virtual meeting via Skype

Meeting called by: Calvin Lo

Attendees: Ogulcan Gol

Objective: To write the conclusion section and create graphs of our results.

Agenda:

2:30 PM          Started working on the graphs.

3:30 PM          Started writing the conclusion section.

4:30PM           Meeting complete

 

Date: December 9, 2014

Time: 8:30 PM to 11:30 PM

Place: Online virtual meeting via Skype

Meeting called by: Calvin Lo

Attendees: Ogulcan Gol, Rosa Cedano

Objective: To finish our first draft of the final write up and submit it to Dropbox

Agenda:

8:30 PM          Carefully review all the sections of our write up.

9:00 PM          Finish working up on the graph.

9:30 PM          Started to adding and editing everything in one document.

10:10PM         Finished up the Minutes and Agenda, Progress Report section of the appendix.

11:00PM         Submit our first draft of final write up.

11:30PM         Meeting complete.

 

Ivan, Rene, Enrique, Iurii_MeetingMinutes5(12-3-14)

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Meeting minutes       12/03/2014

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM, 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM

 

Attendees (Class, in person)

Ivan Kelemen, Rene Alcon, Iurii Druchuk, Enrique Bisono

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Ivan Kelemen

Agenda

  • Discuss outline for manuals
  • Talk about outline for write up after professor explained what it should contain
  • Assign final project parts
  • Talk about revising “fun facts”

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  • During class and then later in the meeting we had outside of class we discussed the outlines for the two separate manuals. Based on the suggestion the professor made we will have to make a few small tweaks. Ivan will revise the rules, while iurii and Rene work on the layout for the manuals from the outline we have made. After that is done Enrique will provide images of the materials and show how they are set up. That will complete the manuals and we can work on more important things.
  • Based on what the professor talked about in class, we decided on the outline for the write up we have to hand in at the end of the semester. We made an outline for it and decided how we want to approach it. we will spend the first two days ( Thursday / Friday ) gathering all the information (research) we need from our research file, then we will write it up using our outline.
  • We decided to split up the work for the write up and then come together to edit the parts in. Ivan will handle the introduction, background information and the general setup of the the paper. Next Enrique will talk about materials and the operation in the game, while also providing “question cards” for the game. Rene will talk about building the game and the design of it, why we made the decisions we made in regard to those things. Finally Iurii will do the conclusion and fun fact cards. He will bring out paper together. Besides this, we will all use research that we found and also all together work on the bibliography.
  • Lastly we talked about fixing the fun facts based on the suggestion the professor made. We will turn the wording of the cards down and make the language easier for kids to understand. Using this suggestion we will also do this with the question cards. We plan to have a term definition in the rule section so they can refer to it if they don’t understand something.

 

Adjournment

We met twice today. First we met in class and worked during the class time from about 12:30 PM until 2 PM when class ended. Then we all separated for a quick lunch and again met at 2:15 PM until 3:15 PM.

 

Ivan, Rene, Enrique, Iurii_Agendа#5 12-03-2014

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Ivan, Rene, Enrique, Iurii

Agenda#5

Prof. Belli

12/03/2014

Agenda for the meetings on 12/03/2014:

 

  • Discuss outline for the manuals (teacher and children)
  • Decide about the outline of the final write-up
  • Talk about suggestions from the professor
  • Decide on the parts of the final report
  • Labor division
  • Revision of fun facts, questions, flashcards.

 

Some thoughts for the next meetings:

  • Meeting with the professor
  • Gather suggestions from peer review groups and from professor
  • Talk about revision accordingly.

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Ivan, Iurii, Rene, Enrique

Progress Report#5

Prof. Belli

12/9/2014

 

During the week of 12/2/2014-12/9/2014 our group acted as it was planned and settled in our previous meetings in class and afterwards. We have set a goal to finish the first draft of the final write-up, and that is what we have been doing this week.

 

Some of the key highlights:

  • During class we have talked with the professor and derived some suggestions, which would make our deliverables better. These were, suggestions about the “fan facts”/flashcards, to make them easier to perceive for children, simplify and modify them accordingly. Also we have been informed about the appendix section and clarified what to include there. So after some tweaking we have simplified the questions and facts.
  • As it was planned we have spent  few days on the manuals gathering all the necessary images and research. We have all worked on its layout and Rene and Enrique have provided images for the steps and rules which were revised and written by Ivan.
  • We also composed an outline for our project report. Making it simpler for as to organise all the different components.
  • After the outline was ready, we were working on it, filling all of the parts. Ivan has done the introduction, Enrique wrote the part about design and how the game works, as well Rene has provided explicit details about the game structure and build of the game, while Iurii wrapped all of the parts together in the conclusion explaining the research and the purpose of the game.
  • After all, we have came together in a single google document to edit and enhance everything together. The first draft of the report was given to the professor today.

 

As we have finished with the week, we have mostly worked on the write up paper and all of its components. Moreover, we were working on the previous parts, such as: Researches and annotated bibliography, fun facts. We now have in mind the revision and professionalizing of our deliverables: manuals, rules, instruction, the final write up.

 

Jason, Ray, Vincent, Progress Report #5

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Group 1 – Jason Choy, Ray Chen, Vincent Cornelio
Professor Jill Belli
ENG 3773
12/05/2014
Progress Report #5

At this point, we’ve completed the game, the manual, and the survey. Over the course of the past week, Jason finished making the game, finalizing the fourth and final level and then playing it through to make sure everything works as intended. There were a few bugs that he had to fix, otherwise it was fine and both endings work as intended. He made two videos showcasing the last level: one for each ending, and both videos were shown to the group.

The manual has been complete for some time now, so we haven’t changed it but we will be distributing it very soon, along with the survey. We revised the survey as shown on our OpenLab blog post, although we followed up with another revision by adding two new questions and modifying another. This idea came up during our meeting, while discussing the body of the final write-up.

We will begin distributing the game, manual, and survey on December 6th. Vincent will distribute them to several family members, and Jason will do the same in addition to releasing it all privately online for certain people to test. Aside from this, most of our focus is on the final write-up, which we have all begun working on.

Everyone is making annotations for their sources that aren’t included in our annotated bibliography, so that we can have a finalized annotated bibliography which we will append in the final write-up. Each member also began writing about their sources; summarizing them and explaining in-detail how they helped us with our project. Once this is done (this won’t take longer than two days), we will come together and integrate it into the final write-up. Meanwhile, Jason has begun working on the cover page, table of contents, appendix, and works cited page. During our last online synchronous meeting (detailed in our meeting minutes from this week), we agreed on a layout for the final write-up which we are currently following. Our first draft will have more than what is required, and we should have the final draft finished several days early, if all goes to plan.