This week, we didn’t meet during class time because we got individual presentation during class. Although we didn’t meet this week, we had some discussion through GroupMe. Last week, we decided to have two people learn how to decorate cakes from their friends. However, Dylan was not able to learn from his friend for some reasons and he told us on GroupMe. We had a short discussion on this situation, and Emily might be able to get some tips from her mom and record it on this weekend. Also, I learned how to decorate cakes from my friend this week and I already record it. Therefore, the first problem happened in our team had been solved successfully.

     For next week, we are going to have a practice competition together. In that time, we will face some problems that might be happening in the final competition and we will solve these problems when they happen. Also, we are going to set up our camera to record the practice competition. The practice competition will help us a lot when we are going to do the final competition.  From now on, our project is progressing smoothly. Although we had some issues happened, we solved them satisfactorily. When someone in our group had some problems, other group members would be able to help.  

This week, we discussed about the schedule of this semester together as a group. During the class time, we were trying to find a cake decorating class in Lincoln, but we failed. We called bunch of stores which might provide a cake decorating class, but there were no class fit in this semester. We asked Mr. Matthew for help, and finally get an idea through discussion. we decided to let two of us take the cake decorating class from their friends who are good at baking cake, other two people study how to decorating cakes from YouTube videos and the last one will do nothing. We will use our phone to record videos to show our progress in next two weeks. In next two weeks, my job is to learn how to decorating cakes from my friend and record the video. After that, we are going to have a competition between all of us, and will find other people to critique. We will find a good place for the competition. We will set the video camera in a good angle so that camera could be able to shot all of us and record the whole competition. From now on, our group is going so far so well and we have a nice plan for the future.  

This week, we presented our three ideas to the class. The three ideas were escape room, bake cakes, and movies. Based on the feedback and comments from teachers and classmates, we decided to focus on the second idea which is a competition of baking cake. We are going to separate our group into two parts, two or three people will take a baking class and other people will baking cake by themselves. Then, we will bake our own cakes individual and invite some people who are not in our group come here to taste and judge. The place that people who are going to take a baking class will be Hy-Vee or some local shop that provide a baking class. We are trying to get the baking class and the competition has done before the spring break, so we have enough time left to build our website. If we have some problem with the video that we take, we can have more time to fix. Therefore, the main goal from now on is to find the cheapest baking class in Lincoln and decide who is going to take the baking class. All in all, our project is progressing smoothly now and hope future can be as smooth as now.

In this week, all the group members of our team were showed up. We completed the Team Contract together and turned it into Canvas. Then we began to discuss what we need to prepare for the next week presentation. Firstly, we created a Google slide together, and then we started to discuss what topic we wanted to do for our project. We chose three topics from a bunch of ideas: go to an escape room, take a baking class, watch movies and learn the process and details of film showings. After we choose the three topics, we began to work on the Google Slides and to figure out the main ideas of these three topics and the challenges that we would be faced.

Next week, we will work together to finish the PowerPoint and get ready for the presentation. We will do more work for our project next week; the past two weeks were just the beginning. For the next week, we are going to do more work and get more details for our project. We will decide which specific topic that we are going to do for the project and begin to start it. We are all feeling excited to get started it.

This week, we got our group together and met up during the class time. The first thing that we did is to introduce ourselves and tried to know each other well. In our group, someone are good at photography, someone is skilled in shooting and editing videos and so on. After the introduction, we could get ready for the group work and distributes different tasks to everyone.

Then, we began to read through the instruction of the group project and get to know what should we do for this semester. we began to discuss what topic that we will do for this project, like picnic in the Park, go to visit Morrill hall, or bake cakes… We discussed a lot, and we need to think about lots of parts when we are doing this project. Although some ideas were nice and attractive, the cost is a serious problem. Therefore, we decided that we were not planning to do something that would cost money.

For this week, we didn’t have any work that need to complete yet. The only thing that we need to worry about is the blog. For next week, we are going to come up more ideas for our topic and decide which topic that we will do for this semester.