This week, our team worked on solidifying our individual topics in order to confirm that our topics could blend well for our final project. In addition, we established a timeline to guide the group moving forward. This was quite helpful as I think we started to all feel a little stress in terms of seeing the big picture of the overall project. The timeline provided us with some clarity on individual and group tasks for the upcoming weeks. I see this as a crucial part of the team process as I am starting to see a common issue with regard to teamwork - that being that a lot of discussion occurs without a feeling of certainty regarding action. The timeline and task breakdown provides great clarity and assurance that the project will in fact move forward.

As for individual progress, I believe I have my title nailed down. I am going with "Sustaining online communities beyond course completion" . I am excited about the research, but am at that point where I feel overwhelmed because I haven't done too much tangible work yet. I have done some preliminary research, but have not actually determined what articles I will use as of yet. I have a lot of time to work on this project this week and will certainly be looking to stay focused!!! However, I do feel great about the fact that our group feels confident that our individual research will fit together nicely. This provides a good feeling about the individual contributions as a solid base for our group compilation.

So, I sit here late on Sunday night looking forward to a productive week of research and writing. I believe I will feel great when I provide an entry next week indicating that I have in fact turned in the mid term :)