15/5 Thirteenth week

Last week, we had the showcase dress rehearsal. It was quite a bit successful. :-) All of our team did pretty well on our presentation and recieved great feedback on what we can do to improve it. Since we have gone through all that, I believe that we will do a better job on the final showcase.

Now, we approach the final stages of development and try to head into evaluations. Last sunday, we had a regualr online meerting to clear up what we left off last week at the rehearsal and discuss what we need to complete.

Personally, I have finished the more videos for the section American camp vs Russian camp- similarity and differences. There are few more videos to complete for the section 1 and 5 as well as left video clips that are not going to use for our project.

However, since we will have the video/photo gallery section for those remaining stuff, I am little concerned about the amount of the work left for vidoe editing. I would like to discuss with my team to decide how far we want to take for those section so that we will not be burden by unnecessary parts.

Hopefully, I will be able to get some work done during the Thanksgiving holiday so that I won;t be far behind. I just can't believe that final showcase is two weeks away!

15/5 Eleventh & Twelveth week

First of all, I apologize for the late posting. Somehow, I often forgot about the 15/5 (and other things...) I just need to stop excuse myself and manage all the tasks and assignment to get in doen in a timely manner. If I can't manage this matter, I would not succeed to manage myself in the real coporate world that I need to face sooner or later.


In the past two weeks, it was probably the most busy week for me during the development phase. Since I am mostly charged in video editing, I have spent most of evening in the Aderhold's editing suite with Suhwa. As a result, we have completed the four videos for lesson 1, 2 and 3.

After the 6500 Educational Television Product in the last semester, I have had not used final cut pro at all. So, it took me a little while to figure out different functions , shot cut keys and etc to edit the video in the software.

We had the problem to gain access to the remote server. Therefore, Trudy had to be responsible for creating all the HTML pages, which means importing content and embedding all the animations and videos that we needed for the lessons we planned to complete.I am sure that it was a lot of work for her and appreciate her diligent effort and leadership to take charge on that matter with other PM works. I am amazed by her excellent managementship and leadership.

For the showcase presentation, we decided to have everyone presents a different aspect of the project. While we preparing for the presentation, I was able to take more ownership of this project. I think that this would be a good example that the PM is not the only one in charge of the presentation, but everyone in the 6210 teams.

In the upcoming weeks after the rehearsal, I plan to:

• Figure out how to access to the remote server
• Make revisions (based on feedback) to lessons 1-3
• Complete the two other videos for lesson 4 and 5

Also, I will contribute to the tasks:

• Conduct evaluations
• Complete remaining documentation