Weekly Report #28: 04/06 - 04/13

Final Presentation Invitations

This week was focused upon final presentation aspects, such as invitations and guest lists for the event. To begin with, the invitations were created and drafted through a website, which allows for the creation of invitations with visual appeal through clipart and word art. Overall, this website provided me with the ability to create an attractive invitation to provide to my peers, an invitation which will hopefully induce the desire to come to the event within the recipients of the invitations. My invitation was founded upon a standard foundation, with a technological feel, due to my topic of study being software engineering. Furthermore, I also created a guest list to decide who would be receiving the invitations for Final Presentation Night. This guest list mainly includes peers, family, relatives, friends, school members, and other individuals who I feel will participate and enjoy the presentation provided to them on that night. Holistically, the invite list is increasingly important, for it is this list which will create the constituency for my presentation audience. This list will ensure the quality of my audience, providing me with the responsibility and power to control how my presentation is perceived and experienced to a certain extent.

Weekly Report #27: 03/30 - 04/06

Final Product Organization Finalization

This week was focused on Final Product for me. During these past seven days, I partook in two different paths of work for the product. The first aspect was the individual brainstorming. This brainstorming consisted of the mapping out aspect of my product, which included me mapping out the various steps in my program. Within this, I had to consider the various aspects which are inherent within every single type of communication possible in this world. Such universal characteristics were the driving force for my mapping out, as I was able to dictate and assign essential values and variables to these necessary facets of communication. The second part of this mapping out process which occurred this week was my discussion with my mentor. During our conversation, Mr. Christianson was able to point out numerous ideas which I could implement within my program to ensure its display as a more holistic perspective of communication. Most importantly, however, was the discussion over the final product itself. We decided to make a large change to the overall structure and purpose of the product to ensure that it may impact and have a broader scope upon a wider range of society. This change will now allow my product to be much more significant and impactful than before.