This week, we finally finished with the planning stages of our group project. We completed the project management on wednesday, and we also completed a timeline of our project all the way to complettion. We now know all the detials of our project. We know that the laser tag game is going to be held on a peice of our classroom island, and we might also be using some of the bulidings that are already there. Starting tomorrow, or Tuesday, we are going to start the building process for our project. The building is going to be led by Alex, but we will all be helping to build the 2 or 3 story structure. The buidiling will mostlikely take place the entire week. Hopefully, we will be able to finish ahead of schedule. We will then be buying the office furniture to place inside the building.
This week, we are also going to start emailing so that people will know about our event. We plan on emailing the Second Life Educators. Hopefully, some of them will decide to come and support our laser tag game. We have also started telling people in Second Life, and our friends about our event and when it will be, so that they will come out as well. The project is turning out to be alot more time consuming then i thougth at first, but i think if we work at it, we will be able to pull it off successfully.
Our group has gotten alot better at communicating, and i think the preflight checklist had alot to do with that. We know how each individual team member operates, so it has been easier communicating and figuring out what has been completed, and needs to be completed and what hasnt been completed. We are trying to finish the our project as soon as possible, so that we might be able to run a test run with the class as Joe suggested. This will ensure that everything is operating the way it should, and it will also help us fix any problems that we run into during the test. Our goal by the end of this week, is to have a building made and ready to go.
November 12, 2007 at 2:57 am
I’m glad the pre-flight checklist helped you out. The iisland is cleared out and ready for you to build. Let me know if i can help you in any way.
joe
November 12, 2007 at 5:59 am
It sounds as if you guys have a good plan and a good timeline. I’m glad the preflight checklist helped – it’s great to have that communication before a project begins. The most successful groups I’ve been in as a student involved a lot of communication, and we split the tasks before any work began, so in the end none of us felt overwhelmed.
I’m glad you guys have a plan for advertising, too. It would be awful if you spent all that time and energy on building and then had a poor turnout! Good luck with your work on the office building, and thank you for your blog post.