Group 5 met via Skype on Wednesday, October 27, 2010. We discussed the MSU budget and came to the conclusion to create a more simple budget for our purposes. We discussed using a budget of $100,000,000 rather than MSU's $378,000,000. This new number is more manageable and we can easily go in to decide where potential cuts should be.
Our goals for this week will be
Ruth & Ronald: Go through MSU's budget and decide which line items will be used in our budget. Create a sample budget based on those line items. (to be sent via email to group as completed)
Cindy: will focus on greening the budget and writing a paragraph or two explaining why this is a good idea both financially and ethically and will give examples of budget greening used. (to be sent via email to group as completed)
I will create a loose template of a budget and input Ruth and Ronald's information. I will also continue working on the report, blog, and coordinating meetings.
*** we will all work hard this week to get some actual information down on the report and work toward finishing this bulk of this project.
We will meet next week via Skype.
Posted by Dana Smith
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Skype meeting 1
Group 5 met via Skype on Monday, October 18, 2010. After some technical difficulties we were able to get the discussion ball rolling and dive right into our project. We have decided to meet via Skype once a week until the project is complete and via email and blog comments on the other days. Each group member has been given a task to complete before our next meeting.
Ruth and Ronald will be researching and developing a sample budget as well as writing descriptions of each budget line and where and why particular cuts will be made. They are using various sources and creating a clear presentation.
Cindy will be studying various 5 year plans and creating a loose version of a 5 year plan that we can use with our budget. She will also be creating a paragraph or two that clearly describes the use of this plan and why it is important to use and have one.
I will be coordinating group meetings, updating the blog, formatting the report, then using Ruth, Ronald and Cindy's information to create the Executive Summary and the Project Description.
Our goals in the following week will be to form the Methods and Conclusion section as a group.
Posted by Dana Smith
Ruth and Ronald will be researching and developing a sample budget as well as writing descriptions of each budget line and where and why particular cuts will be made. They are using various sources and creating a clear presentation.
Cindy will be studying various 5 year plans and creating a loose version of a 5 year plan that we can use with our budget. She will also be creating a paragraph or two that clearly describes the use of this plan and why it is important to use and have one.
I will be coordinating group meetings, updating the blog, formatting the report, then using Ruth, Ronald and Cindy's information to create the Executive Summary and the Project Description.
Our goals in the following week will be to form the Methods and Conclusion section as a group.
Posted by Dana Smith
Friday, October 1, 2010
Project Discussion
Hello everyone,
Let's discuss where to begin on this project. Based on our proposal, we have a great head start. It looks like we have a few sections to complete:
Executive Summary
Project Description
Methods
Conclusion
Group/Team Dynamics
We should be able to take all the info gathered from reviewing the budget, etc (look at the proposal blog) and easily turn it into the paper. I'm happy to compile the information or another option would be to each take 2 sections. In the past with group assignments, I have found both to be effective as long as things are done early so each can review. We seem to have problems getting things done early so maybe just post your findings as you see them/ then we can start doing the report section by section and I will start entering the information in the correct format. We can put it all together bit by bit that way we aren't scrambling last minute.
What do ya'll think?
Dana
Let's discuss where to begin on this project. Based on our proposal, we have a great head start. It looks like we have a few sections to complete:
Executive Summary
Project Description
Methods
Conclusion
Group/Team Dynamics
We should be able to take all the info gathered from reviewing the budget, etc (look at the proposal blog) and easily turn it into the paper. I'm happy to compile the information or another option would be to each take 2 sections. In the past with group assignments, I have found both to be effective as long as things are done early so each can review. We seem to have problems getting things done early so maybe just post your findings as you see them/ then we can start doing the report section by section and I will start entering the information in the correct format. We can put it all together bit by bit that way we aren't scrambling last minute.
What do ya'll think?
Dana
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