New group tasks: Creating and Sharing your Project Info Sheet

Congratulations!

You have a group. And some ideas for a project. Now what?

Here are some things you need to do to get started.

1. Project Info Sheet: You need a place to post information that is helpful for your group. It needs to be a place that all of you can access but is not completely out in the open. That way you can write up ideas, post links, make outlines, etc. without worrying about what other folks might think. You also need an easy way to show your work to your TA. To make a Project Info Sheet your contact person will start it by creating a Google document and sharing it with your group and your TA. The Google document is like a word doc that exists online, and that you can edit, and so can anyone you invite to edit it. This works best with Gmail email addresses.

2. Creating a Google Document: While logged into Gmail, click on the documents link at the top of the page. Create a new document and name it: "Info Sheet for 'your group name here'"

3. Put info on your Project Info Sheet. Start by copying and pasting all the info from your group blog comment. Then, make that info better by updating it with:

3.1. List of Full Names of all group members, including two ways to get a hold of each of them.

3.1.1. For example: Max Weber, Weber.Iz.Teh.Awesome@gmail.com, Weber1@ohio.edu

Georg Simmel, Georg.Simmel@gmail.com, etc.

3.2. Include an improved description of your ideas including

3.2.1. general idea behind your project, and the type of project (video, photo essay, etc.)

3.2.2. key ideas in sociology that relate

3.2.3. links to resources, examples, etc.

4. Share your Project Info Sheet with everyone in your group AND with all of the TAs and Ted. Use our gmail email addresses, listed in the email that copies this information. A particular TA will work with you in the future on your project. For now, include all of us.

Note that after you create and name your project info sheet you should share it by clicking the "Share" button on the top right of the page. Then select "invite people" and copy paste all the people you want to share it with, including us, listed in teh email on this topic.

5. Be ready for comments or feedback on your project which will be posted to your Project Info Sheet.

6. Take a look at the updated project description page, it has current info about projects and links to many other projects. Most groups prefer the YouTube video projects, but there are other options. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Htw3/Autumn_2008_Projects

Come together, right now, . .

If you don't have a group yet, come together in this thread. Remember that Ringo was not one of the original Beatles. There is still hope.

You have two options:

1. Post a comment in this thread if you don't yet have a group. You might mention what you are interested in or if you have some skillz.

1a. Keep paying attention to this thread-- and reply to other folks who post in it.

2. Check out the existing groups in the group thread :

http://projectsinsocandsocialchange.blogspot.com/2010/02/group-thread.html

2a. If you see groups with only 3 or 4 people, send an email to the contact person (who posted the group comment).

Group Thread

Step 1: Form group

Step 2: Give distinctive name to your group

Step 3: Decide on group contact person

Step 4: Brainstorm 5 possible ideas for project topics

Step 5: Post to this thread with:

A. Name of group

B. List of people in group

C. Gmail of contact person

D. Your 5 possible ideas

Step 6: TA will contact your contact person with next steps