Blog 5 Environmental Awareness

Blog 5 November 26, 2016

This week, I have accomplished helping my peers. I helped my fellow classmate named Kanzo finish his blog. I also assisted others in the process when they had questions and they asked me how to do it or what to do next. Nothing has gone wrong helping Kanzo. He followed the steps I told him to do and he submitted his first blog. The challenges I have faced is that Kanzo is a really slow typer so it took a while for me to help him out through the process. I have learned that Kanzo is a very slow typer, but if he keeps practicing and continues making his blogs, he will develop the skills, or he will get use to it and he will become a faster typer. My skills have improved over the past week by me being considerate/helpful (helping my peers with their blog) and patient (waiting on Kanzo to finish his blog, slow typing). Yes, my partner and I are on time on our delivery. We do not need any adjustments to our timeline or schedule. Our next action is still to make time and call the departments to answer our empathy questions and to get the empathy interview out of the way.

Kanzo doing his blog

Blog 4 Environmental Awareness

Blog 4 November 19, 2016

This week my partner and I accomplished starting on our pitch to say to the departments we are going to ask. We also found a website about DFW (Department of Fish and Wildlife) that tells us the answers for some of our empathy questions. We also thought of changing some parts of our proposal and we think it would be better if we could work with DFW for this environmental awareness project. Nothing has really gone wrong so far, still going good on our project. The challenges I have faced so far in this environmental project is creating the pitch to say to the departments when we call them. Through this process I have learned  that you could find answers online and it would help a great deal, but we are still going to make a call and ask them for assistance to answer our questions. My skills have improved by me working smarter not harder. Also in communication and teamwork with my partner. Yes, my partner and I are on track for on-time delivery. No, adjustments will be needed for the schedule or timeline we have planned. My next action is to get those empathy questions answered.

Mya writing the pitch

Blog 3 Environmental Awareness

Blog 3 November 12, 2016

This week my partner and I have accomplished starting on our elevator pitch. I hope we continue to bring the fire and that I will memorize all of my parts and not get them mixed up in the future when we present it. Nothing has really gone wrong yet and hopefully it is smooth sailing until the end. The challenges we have faced over the week is that we barely worked on the project because of the no school days and barely anytime in class to work on it, but my partner and I communicated online and got a bit of the stuff done. The thing I learned through the process is that communication is key. My skills haven’t really improved over the week based on this project, but I guess time management and communication skills kind of improved. Yes, we are still on track for the on-time delivery. No adjustments are needed as of now on this project’s timeline. This month is just to conduct the empathy interviews and we have our questions down. We just need to get out there and start doing them. Our next action is to still conduct the empathy interviews and to continue working on our elevator pitches.

Elevator Pitch Requirements

Blog 2 Environmental Awareness

Blog 2 November 5, 2016

This week my partner and I have accomplished our empathy questions. We wrote down questions to ask specific people and departments relating to the environment. We hope to get amazing responses that will benefit us. The thing that went wrong was we had trouble creating questions to ask the people and departments intended for it. The challenges we faced were creating those questions. It was kind of tough because we didn’t know what to ask them and also because my partner and I didn’t really have much time to talk about it in class, but we eventually got it done by communicating online. The thing I have learned throughout the process is that technology really came in handy. We got to communicate online to finish it up. I have improved my skill over the past week by having good time management. Yes, my partner and I are on track for our on-time delivery. We do not need any adjustments because our timeline or schedule right now for November is to conduct the empathy interviews, and we just finished creating the questions for it. Our next action is to go out there and start gathering the results and meet up with the people and departments and ask them our questions and start conducting the interviews.

Communicating in Messenger