Day 4: Structuring

Strengths & Weaknesses of the Project
The framework for the project was broad, so we decided to strengthen our understanding of the project by creating a structure that clearly outlines what we will be working on in the future. Since current outline was too weak for us to understand it caused confusion, so the purpose of developing a new one is to get everyone on the same page.

I (Marcus) have explored Orientation Island and I’m currently finding new information on Help Island that will assist us with future tasks. My strengths are in creative mathematics and design so I’m going to continue to think of ideas so that they can be built in TC Island (or whatever island). I am providing the Big Picture framework to the math tasks, and coordinating the project. Because of this, I’ll be in charge of reporting the overall progress and ideas that ALL of us will be working on.

Jonathan is going to go through each task in Orientation Island and provide a step-by-step manual for others to perform these tasks. Jonathan’s strengths lie in the use of technology. He’s thinking of innovative ideas to present all of the organized information to the students, teachers, and others who will be using the project. He’s currently working on adding videos of different tasks that the students are going to be executing.

Modou is also going to finish Orientation Island to get an understanding of how to explore the possibilities of Second Life. Modou is very good at taking directions so he will be utilized as the right-hand man throughout the project. He’s currently working on providing pictures to add to a manual for the students to follow. He’ll be also utilized to construct the objects necessary that are being designed.

Dr. Lang/Dr. Arno, we need your assistance to providing us guidance for the project. We welcome suggestions and feedback for the functions and processes of the project. I’ll be the point person to make sure we’re on the same page with what you would like us to do.

Implementation
I have decided that we should look around Orientation and Help Island to give us ideas as to what we can build in TC Island. Jonathan had us working on utilizing the circles in the center of the island to start building lessons on. He had me writing down the instructions, while Modou worked on taking snapshots of the events. Jonathan is going to be providing video to discuss the following: chords, diameter, radius, and circumference.

We’re going to look at the documents Dr. Arno provided us to pick the topics we would like to design lessons for. We will assemble a list of the chosen topics and work on those immediately. We will provide the list, outline with assigned tasks, and a timeline to Dr. Arno and Dr. Lang for how we’re going to work with them for each day. Therefore, the blogs will reflect what is on the list.