March Monthly Summary

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The month of March was a busy one for everyone it seems. Over the last month we have completed our Program Design, 15 Minute Yoga: Three Steps to Better Adult Living, and received critical feedback from Dr. Jerry Wilde and Ms. Danielle Steele about our program design. This feedback will be very valuable to us for moving forward with our projects. The assignments and activities through the month were thrown off a little by Spring Break, but in all we kept it together well.  Studying spiritual learning so in depth has really added a spiritual component and meaning to previous and current experiences for all of us. We continue to enjoy uplifting the skill sets of individual group members. This is a big help because as the semester progresses it is clear we all hold very active lives outside of class time.

We still work very well together as a group when we divide responsibilities and rotate each week.  It keeps us all working and allows us to take a breather from intense work some weeks.  It has been comforting to have other people to lean on when assignments are due.  Our communication is still an advantage with our group as well. We are able to give constructive criticism and praise when needed when it comes to our projects. In the coming month we will be working on the program presentation and finishing up this course.  In the best-case scenario we can continue to work together and hold each other accountable for our work, with an ultimate outcome that fully represents our efforts and provides lasting pride for our group and individual work.  

One of the things that we have been lagging behind in is time management.  We started off the semester completing assignments as soon as we could and that timetable has slowly slipped towards the end of the week.  Luckily, the great planning means we are still meeting deadlines!  Something that we really need to work hard on in this last month is revising and editing our assignments.  Between busy schedules and inconsistent work, there have been multiple accounts of grammar errors as well as ideas and information that is repeated within the paper because each group member's piece is independent of the paper as a whole.  We will be working on this until the end of the semester. 

Our future Project Demonstration group work will be a true test of our ability to improve upon previous shortcomings.  Drawing from all previous course work, the tasks of pulling the entire project together in a streamline, easy to understand, clear/simple, interactive demonstration is entirely within our grasp.  The assigning of a group project manager that oversees the larger picture may be our resolving solution for success.