vogel's blog http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/blog/37 en RPG Group Project 3 Week 7 Entry http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/587 <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">This past week has been hectic. We met Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday to practice our presentation and finish up our deliverables.<span>&nbsp; </span>I also got the paper bound by Boiler Copymat and had to do the second run of handouts. <span>&nbsp;</span>I also did this week&rsquo;s write-ups as well.&nbsp; I spent approximately 3.5 hours working on the slides, handouts and rehearsing.<span>&nbsp; </span>I also spent another hour and a half at Boiler Copymat getting the presentation bound.<span>&nbsp; </span>I also spent forty-five minutes fixing the handout and another forty-five minutes working on the write-ups.</span><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></strong></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/587#comments Project Log Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:40:47 +0000 vogel 587 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1 RPG Group Project 3 Meeting 11 http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/586 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">December 11, 2008 7:00 &ndash; 8:30pm</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Beering classroom</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Jim Vogel, Andrew Greeson, Aswin Selvaraj</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The goal of the meeting was to practice the PowerPoint presentation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">We practiced the PowerPoint and got down when we would transition slides and transition from person to person.<span>&nbsp; </span>We also discussed possible questions that people may ask us and made sure we agreed on our answers, so we could better answer our audience.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">For our next meeting we plan to meet Friday December 12, 2008 from at 4:30pm to present our PowerPoint presentation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></strong></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/586#comments Project Log Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:29:48 +0000 vogel 586 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1 RPG Group Project 3 Meeting 10 http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/585 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">December 10, 2008 4:30 &ndash; 5:30pm</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Beering classroom</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Jim Vogel, Andrew Greeson, Aswin Selvaraj</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The goal of the meeting was to turn in the deliverables.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">We turned in the PowerPoint electronically with the recommendation report, as well as a bound hardcopy of the report.<span>&nbsp; </span>We also talked to Dr. Kerns about our handouts and she said we needed to reprint them, so Jim took on that responsibility.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">For our next meeting we plan to meet Thursday December 11, 2008 from 7:00pm to 8:00pm to practice the presentation one more time.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></strong></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/585#comments Project Log Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:26:27 +0000 vogel 585 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1 RPG Group Project 3 Meeting 9 http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/584 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">December 8, 2008 5:30 &ndash; 6:30pm</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Beering classroom</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Jim Vogel, Andrew Greeson, Aswin Selvaraj</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The goal of the meeting was to finish up the PowerPoint slides, handout, and practice our presentation.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">We finished up the PowerPoint and finished designing the handouts.<span>&nbsp; </span>We also delegated who was going to get the report printed and bound, and who was going to get the handouts printed.<span>&nbsp; </span>Jim volunteered to get the paper bound and Aswin said that he would get the handouts printed.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">For our next meeting we plan to meet Wednesday December 10, 2008 during class to turn in the PowerPoint, paper, and handouts.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></strong></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/584#comments Project Log Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:21:24 +0000 vogel 584 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1 RPG Group Project 3 Week 5-6 Entry http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/583 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">These past weeks we worked on finishing the recommendation paper and starting on the PowerPoint presentation.&nbsp; I attended the meetings and helped comingle the rough draft.<span>&nbsp; </span>I also did this week&rsquo;s and last week&rsquo;s write-ups as well.&nbsp; I spent approximately 5 hours working on the draft and the slides, and another forty-five minutes working on the write-ups.</span><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></strong></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/583#comments Project Log Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:13:47 +0000 vogel 583 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1 RPG Group Project 3 Meeting 8 http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/582 <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">December 5, 2008 5:30 &ndash; 6:30pm</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Beering classroom</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Jim Vogel, Andrew Greeson, Aswin Selvaraj</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The goal of the meeting was to work through our peer edit and make revisions to finalize the paper, and work on the PowerPoint slides.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">We looked through the paper making revisions.<span>&nbsp; </span>We also worked on the PowerPoint presentation but did not get it finished.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">For our next meeting we plan to meet Friday December 8, 2008 after class to finish up the PowerPoint and practice the slides. </span></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/582#comments Project Log Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:08:34 +0000 vogel 582 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1 RPG Group Project 3 Meeting 7 http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/581 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">December 1, 2008 4:30 &ndash; 6:30pm</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Beering classroom</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Jim Vogel, Andrew Greeson, Aswin Selvaraj</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The goal of the meeting was to finish up our rough draft that was due on Wednesday.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">We again looked through each other&rsquo;s revised parts and meshed the parts together.<span>&nbsp; </span>We finished up the rough draft and began working on the PowerPoint presentation.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">For our next meeting we plan to meet Friday December 5, 2008 after class to look over the critique of our draft.<span>&nbsp; </span></span></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/581#comments Project Log Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:03:03 +0000 vogel 581 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1 RPG Group Project 3 Meeting 6 http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/580 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">November 24, 2008 4:30 &ndash; 6:00pm</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Beering classroom</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Jim Vogel, Andrew Greeson, Aswin Selvaraj</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The goal of the meeting was to read through each other&rsquo;s sections that we had previously written and start to mesh them together.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">We looked through each other&rsquo;s parts and began to mesh the parts together.<span>&nbsp; </span>Andrew&rsquo;s part and my part clashed so I had to rework mine.<span>&nbsp; </span>We discussed the issue we were both trying to explain and also talked out other issues that we were not all clear on. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">For our next meeting we plan to meet Monday December 1, 2008 during the class off to finish pulling together our paper.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/580#comments Project Log Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:58:01 +0000 vogel 580 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1 RPG Group Project 3 Week 4 Entry http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/579 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">This week we again worked on researching information in order to help come up with estimates for the recommendation paper.&nbsp; I attended the meeting and helped find the financial statistics that we needed for the presentation.&nbsp; I also did this week&rsquo;s write-ups as well.&nbsp; I spent approximately 3 hours researching information and another fifteen minutes working on the write-up.</span><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></strong></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/579#comments Project Log Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:46:58 +0000 vogel 579 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1 RPG Group Project 3 Meeting 5 http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/578 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">November 17, 2008 5:30 &ndash; 6:30pm</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Beering classroom</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Jim Vogel, Andrew Greeson, Aswin Selvaraj</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The goal of the meeting was to finalize our research findings and make sure we had everything we needed.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">We again looked through the research each one of us had done prior to the meeting.&nbsp; We also found financial statistics that we needed for worker&rsquo;s wages and other implementation costs.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">For our next meeting we plan to meet Monday November 24, 2008 during the class off to pull together our paper.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p> http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1/node/578#comments Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:42:19 +0000 vogel 578 at http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa08/kerns1