Final Presentation Prep

After discussing our outline all five of us spilt up the outline equally. We are to develop our presentation over Thanksgiving Break. I am in the middle of developing the Benefits for Circle K and the Benefits for the Community. I am also putting the videos for our presentation onto the slides. After this break, we are all going to collaborate and put our slides together and then finalize our presentation. It is all hopefully going to come together and we should be able to make a 40 to 45 minute presentation.

Kyle P. Smith
Com 320 Boilermakers

Today in class our group discussed and came up with an outline for our final presentation. We talked about our entire presentation from the introduction to the conclusion. We talked about the challenges that we faced throughout the project and inprovments that could have been made. We will give the details to those things in our final project. We set up a powerpoint as well today and plan on adding information as we get closer to our day to present. We also plan on having a lot of pictures of our cans and videos to go along with our presentaion. I would say that we are off to a good start.

Zach

Final Presentation

This past Friday, my group and I discussed what we are planning for our final presentation. We first looked at the requirements needed for the final presentation. After review of the requirements, we collaborated as a group and discussed what we would like to do. We made a short skeleton of our final presentation. On Monday we are planning on putting a PowerPoint together before the Thanksgiving Weekend.

Kyle P. Smith
Com 320 Boilermakers

Creativity Workshops

This past week was very interesting and fun in our Com 320 class. I thought the creativity workshops were fun and actually taught us how to handle small groups and give them a specific activity to do. It made me feel like I was a manager for a small group. It was good practice for my future career. My future career will hopefully by a manager/technical director for feature film industry or a popular game company.

Doing these activities helped me learn how to better manage others in small groups. It also gave me a first hand perspective on how I act within a small group when given a certain activitiy to do.

Kyle P. Smith
Com 320 Boilermakers

The Event - Purdue Cirlce K Can-Petition

The Purdue Circle K Can-Petition took place this past Friday. It was at Class of 1950 on the second floor lobby. We had four different groups part take in the event. Two Com 320 groups - from our class, a fraternity, and Com 320 Boilermakers - my group.

The event went smoothly in my eyes. We started at 9am and ended early, 12:30pm. All the groups that did the competition completed their structures in the early morning. While the event was going on, we had Dustin taking pictures of all the structures. They are up above. We are currently having Purdue Circle K judge the photos and hopefully by Monday we can reward the winners with their prizes (donuts)!

I just wanted to thank all who came out and helped out with our event and to my team. I really appreciated it.

Kyle P. Smith

Com 320 Boilermakers

I was able to get out on Wed evening and post fliers around the south side of State St. Hopefully this will be able to bring some awareness as to what our group is doing within the next few weeks. Also this week we got the chance to work with others in the class which turned out to be a good experience. It was not really hard for my group do to the fact that we only had one new member. We were given a very interesting problem and that was fun to work with because I gained new knowledge.

Solving Problems

In class this week we had a project that helped us discuss within our groups how to resolve a large problem. We had to solve a previous problem that had already occured in the past with Exxon Oil Company. I think that our group completed this task very well. In our service learning project group, we haven't really run into a whole lot of problems but I believe that if we were to have some problems we would take the correct actions to resolve them.
In COM320 Boilermakers, we started handing out fliers for our canned food drive, we have handed out many fliers, but as far as what Kyle has told us we haven't recieved any response emails to the competition. This could turn into a problem, but I believe that like our group in class, we the COM320 Boilermakers, could make the right decisions.

Chris Meding

Service Project Update

This week I was able to send out a mass email to multiple groups here at Purdue. I still have not heard back from any of them yet but am hopeful that some or all will respond back and take part in the event. I know that Purdue Circle K, my com group, and maybe my com class will be at the event. That at least makes three structures and three actively participating groups.

We also finished up our fliers and are currently trying to distribute them throughout campus. Some of my group members have already distributed them south of campus and in Beering, University, and Recitation. We still need to distribute more of them though soon.

Kyle P. Smith
Com 320 Boilermakers

Observation

You can learn a lot by observing someone and what role they play in a group. In our last class we had the chance to sit down and observe a classmate while they were working on there task force project. I think this way of learning can give us a better look at how groups interact and work with eachother. Then we reversed the roles and we had someone observe us. I am looking forward to getting the feedback so i can see what things i did well and what things i could improve on.

Zach

Flier for Service Learning Project

For our service learning project, we are advertising the canned food drive and structure building contest through fliers, and writing on a chalkboards, I just finished making the flier which states the time and place for the structure building contest, I think that if we pass enough of these around then we should get more than enough participation in the contest.

Christopher Meding, Sunday October 18th

Service Project Location and Details

This past week, my group members and I were searching for a place to hold the food can competition. I was able to reserve the first and second floor lobbies of Class of 1950 for the event. I already turned in the event form under Purdue Circle K. So it has been officially assigned.

Now I'm in the process of emailing prospective groups to participate in the event. I went to this link here:

http://www.getinvolved.purdue.edu/Community?action=getMyHome

Get Involved is a website where you can find all sorts of organizations and Fraternities / Sororities. I looked up all the community service organizations and some random organizations to email out to. We are hoping that most if not all organizations will be able to help us get this service project "on a roll."

I also found out where we can have people take cans to during the day. Camilla Lawson is Purdue Circle K's advisor. Her contact information is as follows:

Camilla M. Lawson,
M.S. Ed Manager, Student Learning Center
STEW G-36
E-Mail: cmlawson@purdue.edu
(765) 496-7454

She told us that she will collect the cans in her office during the day and my group and I will pick them up at the end of the day and store them at one of our apartments.

We also have a flier Chris created that we will post up during this next week to advertise our event and donation drive.

Kyle P. Smith
Com 320 Boilermakers

Service Project Update

Tuesday we met with Becky Wilson again. We went over final details. We decided on an event date: November 6th. On the 6th we will have the building competition part of our event. But on October 26th we will start collecting cans for the event until the competition date.

We decided that we are going to mass email all student organizations, contact networks of Circle K, and pass out flyiers around campus to advertise the can collection and can competition. We are hoping to maybe reserve a room in the Union for the building event. If that doesn't work, then we will look into another building such as Lambert.

A major group that might help us with collecting cans will be, Kiwanis. Kiwanis is the parent organization of Circle K. After college students graduate they can join Kiwanis to continue helping out their community. Kiwanis last year delivered a truck load of canned foods to Circle K. Circle K said that they might do the same again this year for our group. To find out more info on this group, visit this link: http://www.kiwanislafayettein.org/

I have attached a video link that is an example of what we would like to do with the competition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avWiAVldorE

Kyle P. Smith
Com 320 Boilermakers

After our meeting with circle k on Tuesday it really came to my attention how we are brigning class into our project for others. The contest we are having will be among teams/small groups. So through our project we get to see people outside of class working in small groups. I think this will be a very fun experience for all of us as well as a learning one.

Dustin

Today during class the topic of discussion was conflict. We talked about a lot of different types of conflict. We also talked about that having brothers and sisters might make it easier to deal with conflict. I think that this is very true. I have two brothers and two sisters, we would always be getting into arguments about small things. I learned to compromise better by giving in on somethings and then the next conflict they would give in. Conflict is not a bad thing if you know the right way to deal with it and turn it into something positive.

Zach

Today in class we starting talking about conflicts, the main type we discussed was psuedo-conficts, which is the misunderstanding between two interdependent people. I actually encountered one of these types of conflicts yesterday at work with a co-worker of mine. I was trying to explain to him an aspect of a piece of equipment that I was trying to sell and he was getting upset with me because he didn't understand what I was trying to say, quickly I explained exactly what I was talking about so the conflict didn't escalate into an arguement. I think that this is a good subject to learn about because everyone encounters conflicts in their everyday life.


Chris Meding
Com 320 Boilermakers

Service Project Planning Details

Some of the group and I were able to talk to the President of Circle K tonight. Her name is Becky Wilson. We went into detail on what we are trying to plan for the service project.

First, the two main things we are doing is a recruitment drive and help organize/set up the event. Second, we discussed about who we would like to target to help (mostly other organizations on campus and fraternities/sororities). We plan on either setting up a booth, chalking, sheet, and/or flyers. Finally, we talked about the time we might like to do it. We are thinking in the beginning of November sometime.

This is what we did for our service project this week.

Kyle P. Smith
Com. 320 Boilermakers

This week our group went to a Circle K meeting that kyle is a part of and we found some good ideas at the meeting. It was my first time ebeing at one of those meetings. I think they are a great program that really helps out around the community. We have narrowed our decision down to a can food drive. I am really excited to get started on this project.


Zach
Com 320 Boilermakers

Starting the Service Project

Today, some of my group members and I went to a Purdue Circle K meeting. We are going to use Purdue Circle K as our community organization.

You can locate Purdue Circle K via this web link: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~circlek/

We discussed some project ideas and decided on a specific one. We all decided to do a food can drive. We still need more details but we got some of the basics. What we plan to do is start a recruitment drive to get people to volunteer for it. Then we will try to set up the event for Purdue Circle K. We are still working on the details but this is what we have so far.

Kyle P. Smith
Com 320 Boilermakers

Name: Nathan Zink

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology

Senior graduating in May 2010


My major and work experience as a manager have given me good team work and leadership skills. I believe my background will also help the group resolve any conflicts that arise within the group. I believe that the different backgrounds and skills that each member possesses will allow for a better end product at the conclusion of the course.

Group Rules

Group Contract for Com 320 Boilermakers

Rule 1: Everyone does equal amount of work on any group project that we get.

Rule 2: Everyone checks their emails at least once a day to check for Com 320 updates.

Rule 3: If missing a meeting time, send an email at least one hour before the meeting to notify all members.

Rule 4: Be attentive and take part in all group meetings.

Rule 5: Be prepared for all group meetings.

Rule 6: When we make a meeting date, it will be on a Tuesday and/or a Thursday only.

Rule 7: If a member is not actively participating in the group, may be subject to being kicked out of the group.

Name: Kyle P. Smith

Major: Computer Graphics Technology

Junior

My major has trained me to acquire most if not all the skills that it will take in order to be a successful leader in the Computer Graphics Industry. I believe I can help out our group with my communication skills I have learned and problem solving techniques I have had to develop. I believe this group will go far. We all seem to get along and bring new ideas to the table. We all work well together.

Name: Christopher Meding

Major: Agricultural Marketing & Sales

Senior Graduating Next December

Since I've been at Purdue, I've been in many groups and have participated in many activities that has required me to be active with groups. Through these experiences I have learned many things about others and myself. I have learned that I am a very blunt person, even though what I say might not always be positive, it is the truth. I think that honesty is one important aspect that I bring to the group, because if group members can't be truthful then you will never actually know how the other group members feel about the project. I think that our group has a great variety of people that will bring many different characteristics to the table, enabling us to succeed in completing a professional project.

Name: Zach Burlingame

Major: OLS

Senior graduating next December

As a senior in OLS I have gained great experience in working with others. I have also seen that it is a vitale part of success in the workplace. I think that I can bring good and new ideas to this group. I will always bring good communication and a good work ethic to the group. Our group seems like we have the individuals that it takes to succeed in group activitiesand im looking forward to working with them.

Name: Dustin Coomes

Major: Agribusiness Management

5th Year Senior Graduating in December




Since I have been in college now for over four years I feel as if working in groups is part of every semester and class. With my many experiences I have felt that each one has helped me to learn more about working with others in groups. Just in the few times that I have worked with our group I feel I can already trust everyone to share in all tasks.
Personally I always do my best to work hard and do my part. One of the best things I bring to the table in our group is that I am not afraid of giving feedback. With me saying this I always try to make a conscious effort to make it positive. In all I am going to try and work with all members to make this experience a good one and hopefully come out with a good grade.

Mission Statement

Com 320 Boilermakers are a group of five students from all different majors dedicated to their educational endeavors to do their best and improve on group communication through the teachings of Communication 320 – Small Group Communication. Our terminal goal by the end of the semester is to help benefit our community by the skills and teachings we learn from Com 320.