Black Lab 'B'

Overview:

Accomplished This Week

• Had a group meeting to finish our presentation.
• Completed our presentation
• Presented our familiarization presentation.
• Began work on the Functionality Report and Design Proposal.
• Divided up the parts among the team.

To Be Accomplished Next Week

• We will complete the functionality Report and Design Proposal by Wednesday 24th next week.
• We'll have a team meeting shortly afterwards.
• We'll also begin work on the questions for our specific part of math section of the GED handbook and incorporate them into our XML files.

Devised System for Content Integration:

All subject material will be inported into the main game client using XML file types.


Table Progress

Jesse's Group

Table: B-4

Topic: Lessons 16-19

Accomplished This Week

• Familiarization presentations
• Identification of all game assets
• Identification of subject material content integration system
• Continued working on Functionality Report
  

To Be Accomplished Next Week

• Complete Functionality Report
• Create and begin testing game components, including integration of subject material
• Take part in the field trip to the Mustard Seed
  

David's Group

Table: B6
Topic: Lessons 24-27

Accomplished This Week

• Completed the familiarization presentation

• Further planned list of assets required for the game
• Met with Mustard Seed representatives and asked questions
• Distributed work packages for the Functionality Report
• Created system for table content integration into main game file
  

To Be Accomplished Next Week

• Complete functionality report
• Field trip to Mustard Seed (Tuesday)
• Create and test game
• Implement subject material into game content
• Design system for help-file integration into game content
  

Gavin's Group

Table:B5

Topic: Lessons 20-23

Accomplished This Week

• Group meeting about familiarization report

• Familiarization presentation
  
• Functionality requirements and design proposal report started
• Format of questions was learned
• Began developing questions

  
  

To Be Accomplished Next Week

• Complete functionality report
• Continue question development
• Format questions properly in an XML doc.

• Give small prototype of questions to David for game integration

Stephen's Group

Table: B1

Topic: Lessons 1-5

Accomplished This Week

• Completed work on familiarization presentation
• Met on Wednesday and rehearsed presentation
• Presented Thursday and took notes of other groups
• Clarified roles for functionality report and discussed design specifications and formatting
  

To Be Accomplished Next Week

• Completion of functionality report
  
• Design of prototype questions, have at least 10 questions for testing purposes

Christine's Group

Table: B-2

Topic: Lessons 6-10

Accomplished This Week

• March 15th - Christine and Danial worked on the Scope and Benchmarking part of the familiarization presentation to prepare for thursday.
• March 18th - All members of the group met up in order to put our sections of the familiarization project together.
• The familiarization Presentation was presented on March 18th
• Notes were taken during the familiarization presentation
• Clients (Mustard Seed) visited for a question and answer session
• Discussed and divided the work for the Functional Requirements and Design Proposal Reports
  

To Be Accomplished Next Week

• Finish the Functional Requirements and Design Proposal Reports
• Do at least one question per topic of Lessons 6 - 10 of the GED book along with hints
  

Brandon's Group

Table: B-3

Topic: Lessons 11-15

Accomplished This Week

• Had team meeting to finalize presentation
• Presented familiarization prensentation
• Discussed and decided on a due date for the Functionality report
• Worked on individual portions of the report

To Be Accomplished Next Week

• Finish and hand in Functionality report
• Begin question design and implementation

Figure 1: Current Schedule Progress