Objectives:
Week 9:
– Contact food assets and gain as much information as possible through email, phone or interview
– Continue seeking for possible food assets that we can add to current map
– Get familiar with data input and complete the excel spreadsheet
Week 10:
– Assign tasks to group members for writing the final report
– Prepare for writing the final report and the presentation
Achievements:
Week 8:
– Received the list from the UBC Endowment Lands of retail food companies who have a business permit to operate in the Endowment Lands.
– Conducted a list of current food assets on the map, and another list of food assets we can add to current map.
– Successfully completed the food asset map trailing with UBC food bank and students in the UBC nest, and received feedback from community members.
– Gained a better understanding on the food asset map.
UBC Food Bank
( source: http://old.ubyssey.ca/news/use-ams-food-bank-increases-significantly/)
The Moment of Significant
Change workshop provided us with an opportunity to reflect on all the significant changes that happened throughout the process of our project. During the tutorial session, Each of us had the chance to rate our knowledge progress and emotional changes through the weeks, and then the ratings were averaged out to show overall significant changes as a group on a graph. This activity gave us an estimate of the performance of our group, and also showed us what is needed to improve.
We drew a graph to reflect our emotion and knowledge changes as a group. The x –axis represent the week of the term, and the y- axis represent the level of our emotion and knowledge.
Emotion and Knowledge graph
During our reflection, we found a similar trend of increasing for both knowledge and emotions for the first 3 weeks. As we get to know each member more and more and gain more knowledge from the presentation by Teya, both our emotions and knowledge reached the local highest point at week 3. However, our emotion slipped down to negative on week 4 due to our stress and struggle to finish the proposal. Our knowledge also decreased slightly on this week because we were confused by the instructions of the proposal, and realized that we actually didn’t understand some things that we thought we did. As we finish up the proposal in week 5, our emotion and knowledge raised again because we were happy about our completion and gained more knowledge about the project. The Monday of week 6 was Family Day and it was followed by the reading break. These breaks gave us emotional boost.
We expect our knowledge base to increase steadily till the end of the course and reach a high point in week 12, however, we expect some ups and downs for our emotions throughout the term because of the stress of finishing the final report and presentation.
The Graceful Dismount
In order to ensure that we will meet our weekly objectives, we schedule to meet at least once a week (often Monday after tutorial, or any day if it is a flexible learning day), and always communicate with each other online in the group chat. We will continue to assign tasks to each member and share responsibilities to complete the project.
First, we will analyze the feedback we received from community members in the map trailing, and give advices about how they can improve the map. Next, we will review the food assets in UBC and the UBC Endowment Lands on the current map, and check to see if we need to fix or update any details. Also, we will follow the objectives above to contact the food assets following the list and ask for more information. But we will always send the consent form to them first to ask for permission. By that time, we will all be familiar with how to input data on the excel spreadsheet, and how to put the detailed information on the food asset map.
After we have finished the data collection and data inputs, we will assign different portions of the final report to each group member. Then we will discuss and communicate with each other to finish the report, as well as the presentation slides.