Today’s Plan:
- Check in on job lists and job sheet
- Project 2 Assignment Sheet
- Homework
Job Lists and Sheet
As you will see in a minute, every job in the sheet needs to be categorized as either:
- Writer
- Editor
- Social Media
- Designer
- Sales
Project One Assignment Specs
Your first major assignment this semester asks you to report on the skills required for a particular job category. You will compose a report based on your analysis of all jobs in that category.
Your report will have to do more than simply inform me on requisite skills. It will also serve as a proposal, outlining a three week course of study that you will follow to learn one (or two) of those skills.
For the proposal portion of the report, you will identify a job skill that you would like to develop. You will research methods for gaining said skill and layout a 3 week course of study (how many hours per week will you dedicate to the activity, how can you document those hours spent, what tutorials/readings will you do, etc).You will need to detail what deliverables you will be able to share at the end of the three weeks to document your new abilities.
Note: I am perfectly open to you collaborating and working together on this project. Share your data. Develop a calendar together. I will expect everyone to turn in their own deliverables for the project, but it might be wise to commit to learning and developing something with a teammate (or teammates).
Flushing Out Expectations
In today’s class, I would like you to collaborate and develop the assignment sheet for this project. Below you will find a link to a Google Document. The second page of the document contains a space called “Links, Notes, and Material(s).” As you work in teams of two in class today, I’d like you to put material in that space. In the last 15 minutes of class, we will review that material to flush out the assignment expectations.
So in ABO we’ve got:
- Feasibility Reports
- Formal Reports
- Investigative Reports
- Tables
A few other resources:
- David McMurrey, Recommendation and Feasibility Report</li>
- Untold Content, How to Write a Recommendation Report
- Hloom, Sample Proposal Templates
- We will work on creating a project timeline and/or GANTT chart next week
We’ve also got to look at the section on Proposals (429). We can consider this a Formal Internal Proposal. Let’s look at proposals.
This project will require you to develop a gantt chart.
Here is our collaborative workspace.
Homework
First, make sure you have coded all your jobs. Make sure the 10 jobs on the list you submitted to me are properly coded. Last chance.
Second, begin analyzing your data. I advise creating your own spreadsheet built around skills rather than job titles.
