Team Meeting 11/30

Cheryl was in the Twin Cities, and Zach had a test and needed to study. Cheryl wrote a blog update, and Zach emailed an update which I shared with the group.

Zach has finished the holiday tree story. He has a few updates to make to the iPad story. His UROP meeting with the person for violent media enjoyment paradox is next Thursday. The Tobin Stanley article is up. It can't run on the homepage until after the Star Tribune runs their article. Mike Montano hasn't gotten back to him.

Jess said her UROPs are almost done. Mysteries is finished. Heikal is being edited. She is meeting with Jean Baptiste for his photo shoot. She has a few more questions for him and then will finish that article. The Civil Engineering Masters article is done.

Kat has written and edited the Puppet UROP. It is on Dreamweaver. She received a couple of changes from the student.

Christiana has been working on a lot of news releases and is waiting for approval to send them out. They are: diversity award, Carmen Latterrel, NSF Chippewa Language video, Andrea Schokker. She sent the holiday tree news release to the Statesman and KUMD. Most of the television stations had already covered it. She sent out the news release for the civil engineering masters. She sent out the LLO Nat Geo info to Biz Buz. She is working on a news release for American Blues Theatre. She is also working on the Brief.

Kathleen put her UROP on a dreamweaver page. The faculty advisor is in Australia this week and she will speak with him next week. She is still trying to find an LSBE UROP student to interview. She put together a google docs for the UROP projects with contact info and links to articles. She worked on homepage changes yesterday, edited articles, cropped photos, wrote 25 words, and updated the index. She notified LJ that an LSBE article was going up on the homepage. They are probably going to put it up on their homepage. She has been working on Currents - a lot of notices still coming in. UMD Events Calendar pictures need to change out next week so she has been coordinating that. She updated a couple of media emails that had come back as bad. She emailed the student employees asking for their spring semester schedules when they have them.

Jessica and Kat will team up to do the Alert System article. Hopefully that can be done by Tues. They will also team up to interview Shawn Grund, an alumnus who volunteered in Rwanda with the Peace Corp. We scheduled that article for January after J-term when the students are back.

Team Meeting 11/15

Cheryl said that there are just a few more changes to the annual report, and it will be done. She and Jessica are making headway on Heikal, and they are working on the Mysteries project. Cheryl is waiting for corrections on the Maureen Tobin Stanley article. On Friday, she will write the American Blues article and the article about Milan's book.

Kat worked on the annual report on Monday. She also worked on the AIA article. Cheryl will email puppet pictures.

Jess blogged on Monday. She has been working on Heikal. She wrote the first draft on the Mysteries project, and she wrote the first draft on the Jean Baptiste article. She hung snow advisory posters. She found the map really confusing and will try to create a new one when/if time allows. She also compiled a list of local American Indian radio stations. She and Christiana are waiting for changes on Civil Engineering article.

Zach's eye tracker article is done. He receive corrections, made those and the correction were approved. He worked on the Annual Report with Cheryl. The Statesman would be willing to run his article on Mike. Zach has heard from Mike yet however.

Kathleen has been working on the annual report, proofing, editing, etc. Currents went out yesterday. She is working on the next issue of Currents and putting together a list of events for the Dec/Jan Night/Day ad. Homepage changes were made yesterday. She has all the UMD Facts back and can proceed with making changes. She will talk to Duane in LSBE about UROPs. He was out this week.

We reviewed what photographs need to be taken for the Bridge. Cheryl will contact Brett.

Jess suggested that we obtain a list of advisors for student organization so we can email them information about how student organizations can publicize their events. Jess also said that we need a new camera in our department.

Team Meeting 11/9

Cheryl is working on the speaker article (we can't remember the name) and the American Blues event. Cheryl could use some help on Friday. Jess offered to come in Friday 9-10 and Zach offered to come in Friday 1-3.

Cheryl is working on the annual report. She wrote the message for the Chancellor. She hopes to have the first proof reading on Friday and changes back by Monday night. She is working on the t.v. spot. She is working on speeches for students for Beaujolais nouveau. She met with Connie Black regarding a new year's/winter's greeting e-card. The graphic designer position will be posted any day now.

Kat worked on Currents. She also filed Christiana's files. She took part in the t.v. spot focus group on Monday. On Friday, she will take notes at a class regarding the puppet UROP.

Jessica worked on the ASL club zoo event on Monday. She is starting the Civil Engineering Masters article and will work next on the Mysteries UROP>

Zach is done with his Eye Tracker UROP article and is just choosing photos. He made corrections on the Tobin Stanley article. The end of the article needs to be cleaned up. He will follow up with the Statesman regarding Mike Montano. He needs a new story idea and if the Statesman isn't doing an article on Mike Montano that would be a great one for Zach to talk. Zach also worked on Currents this week.

Christiana is working on the Ianni Hall rebate news conference to be held on 11/22. Brett will be doing photographs. She is working on Brief for next week. She will add Joycelyn Dorscher's Woman of Distinction award. Also look at adding Civil Engineering on the cover of the Nov./Dec. 2011 issue of Chicago Architect. Christiana sent out news release on the ASL zoo event. She is working on the Hoagie scholarship article. She is going to the hockey game on Saturday to speak with him. She is working on the puppet UROP.

Christiana asked the students to help on a couple of projects. Zach and Kat work on a LSBE homepage story about student volunteering in the community. Christiana will get student emails. Jess offered to help put up snow advisory posters. They are already printed. They just need to be stamped and approved and then posted.

Kathleen has been working on the annual report. On Thursday, she came in and interviewed Muhammad Kasim. On Sunday she wrote the article and emailed it to him. He sent a couple of changes, and she made those on Monday. She edited and rewrote the writer's five articles. She proofed the Chancellor's message.

On Monday, Kathleen sent UMD Events Calendar picture and text changes to Matt. Yesterday, she wrote 25 words for the homepage, cropped photos, sent changes to Andy and updated the index. She spoke with Dr. Dorscher today and was able to finish that article. Andy was able to post that article and she updated the index.

She sent an email to another LSBE student regarding their UROP project. She has been working on Currents. She updated the team calendar with vacation days.

Team Meeting 11/2

We had a nice afternoon party at Cheryl's home. We decided not to have an actual meeting but everyone promised to blog.