Weekly Status Checks
What progress has been made in the past week?
What challenges have been encountered in the past week?
Do you have any new expectations that your final project will differ from what was described in your proposal?
Each question can generally be answered in only a sentence or two unless there is a more significant answer. It is crucial that you be honest in these status checks, however. If we observe that your progress is slow early on, we can mutually adjust expectations and come to a new agreement. However, if we discover later that your final project will differ because of a discrepancy between your plan and your progress that you did not disclose when it arose, your final grade will be affected
Proposal (Using technology to improve education delivery in rural areas)
Every proposal will be different, but a single individual should propose a 100-hour project. There is no one template outline that will apply to all proposals. However, there are sections that will be covered by every proposal, as well as sections that will be covered by any proposal in a particular track. This sample outline is meant as a starting point: if you have good reason, you can add other sections or remove some of these.
Your proposal should be approximately 6 pages long in JDF, excluding the task list described below. This is neither a minimum nor a maximum, but rather a heuristic to simply describe the level of depth we would like to see.
Header
Every proposal should start with a title and a list of team members.
Introduction
Briefly introduce your topic. Your goal in the introduction is to set up a narrative for why your project is actually valuable. This would frame the phenomenon or question, especially in terms of what data or results exist to show the phenomenon exists
Related Work
Cover what others in the same area have done. This sets up the foundation for your work and tells the reader how what you will do is different from what is already out there, as well as how they should interpret the results of what they do in a broader context. This would be the other findings that set up the value of your investigation, showing that your question is prompted by others work.
Proposed Work
This is the crux of the proposal. What are you going to do? Your description of your proposed work should be detailed enough that you could hand this proposal to someone else and they may be able to implement it themselves. We would expect every proposal to have subsections to the proposed work, but what those subsections are will differ based on your project. This would be the methodology of the study you would be doing, including your hypotheses, how youll gather your data (Surveys? Interviews? Observation? Log analysis?), and how youll analyze it (Quantitatively? Qualitatively?).
Deliverables
As part of the project, you will produce two intermediate milestones, as well as the final project. Describe what these deliverables will be. Take a look at the course calendar to see when the intermediate deliverables are expected.
Second, describe what you expect to be in your final project deliverable. This could be code, data, artifacts, courseware, videos, etc.
Task List
At the conclusion of the proposal PDF, your proposal must have a task list. To create your task list:
Download or make a copy of the task list template. Delete the sample tasks.
Fill out the task list. You may add or remove rows as necessary. If you have multiple team members, youll definitely need to add rows.
Make sure to set aside some time for preparing each milestone, the final paper, and the final presentation.
Copy your task list into your proposal document.
