{"id":116,"date":"2016-02-01T17:40:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T00:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfs350group9\/?p=116"},"modified":"2016-04-01T20:03:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T03:03:36","slug":"blog-post-2-project-proposal-and-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfs350group9\/2016\/02\/01\/blog-post-2-project-proposal-and-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 2: Proposal and Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To begin, we have documented a Proposal Report to highlight the main purpose of the project and how we will obtain these results. Along the way, there may be alterations in our Proposal and, therefore, weekly and future goals can help us track our progress. The success of our project will depend on our organization and commitment throughout the term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Project Proposal<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfs350group9\/files\/2016\/02\/ProposalEdits-Feb-14.pdf\" rel=\"\">ProposalEdits-Feb-14<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Weekly Objectives &amp; Achievements\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Week 1:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Decide on the topic of our community project\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Got to know our group members and identify individual strengths through interests and academic background<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Created a Facebook page as platform for communication and sharing of ideas\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Week 2:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Familiarize ourselves with the components of the food system<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Created a systems diagram for our community project during the tutorial session<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Searched for community kitchens<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Created a Google Doc to assign roles to each member, and\u00a0weekly tasks to be completed ahead of the deadlines<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Week 3:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Complete Blog Post 1<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Finished Blog Post 1\u00a0in accordance with the\u00a0guidelines<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Drafted an email template to communicate with community kitchen partners<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Week 4:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Begin our Proposal Report\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Revised and edited Blog Post 1 with feedback from our TA<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Week 5:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Complete our Proposal Report<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Start\u00a0Blog Post 2<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Finalized our Proposal Report with feedback from our TA<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All members successfully completed the TCPS (Tutorial Course on Research Ethics) and obtained certificates<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Week 6:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Contact our list of community kitchens through email or phone<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Assign roles to the members responsible for visiting community kitchens (e.g. contacting community kitchens,\u00a0conducting survey, recording observations)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Complete Blog Post 2<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Roles were distributed based on strengths and preference<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Finalized Blog Post 2 in accordance with the guidelines<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Moment of Significance<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>What?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Interdisciplinary is a theme that has been emphasized repetitively throughout each and every single LFS course. Individually, we all understand the theoretical significance of the concept and appreciate the opportunity that allows all five of us &#8211; who come from various\u00a0academic backgrounds: food and nutrition, urban planning, sustainable agriculture, sports nutrition\u00a0and food market analysis, to work together. From the very first meeting, however, we immediately realized the challenge of putting this theory into practice, as each individual\u00a0holds different interests and preferences with regard to choosing the topic for our community project. Coming together and incorporating our personal visions to create\u00a0a new set of goals that satisfy our needs &#8212; is definitely not as easy as it may sound. While trying to understand each member&#8217;s majors and keeping an open mind to any possibilities, we resolved to deductive reasoning in order to eliminate the community project topics that did not highlight our team dynamic. After narrowing down to roughly five topics, each member listed their top three choices to further eliminate unwanted options. To our surprise and relief, most of us provided a very similar list, which enabled us to make our final decision with ease and proceed to apply for the Community Kitchens project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>So What?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We had a huge assumption about the major hindrance that prevents people from different disciplines to work together. It is true, that the benefits of interdisciplinary teamwork are not widely known, and therefore not much opportunity are available for this type of organization. However, for us &#8211; who are open-minded individuals, who are spoon-fed with the opportunity, there is still a challenge! In fact, we have deduced, that to bring an interdisciplinary group of people together is hard, but to get them work together is even harder. Therefore, it is important that there is a framework of principles to guide us through the experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As a team, we have come up with a few guidelines for members to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Listen to and understand each others&#8217; backgrounds<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Maintain an open mind to ensure all opinions are heard<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Incorporate common interests and assets to form a better team vision<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Keep a good relationship with our working partners<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We based our actions on the common goals we share. Once we decided on what we expect, as a whole, we effectively picked out our decision. Working together from different disciplines is not necessarily a complicated progress, nor should it be a bad experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Now What?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now that we have successfully\u00a0concluded our research topic to be on Community Kitchens, other issues on teamwork might arise. Therefore, we need to keep in tune with each other and continue on this journey together, by integrating the diversity of everyone&#8217;s individual point of view into unified systems (Wujec, 2013). We are bound to come across obstacles along the way thus, communication is very important in ensuring an efficient team environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Upcoming Objectives and Strategies<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Visit community kitchens<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Strategy:\u00a0Once contact has been established by phone or email, a few members of the group will visit community kitchens. In doing this, we must demonstrate professionalism through our presentation\u00a0and organization. These group members can ensure a good relationship with the community kitchen partners by creating a plan prior to visiting the sites.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Organize data from the surveys<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Strategy: Create an Excel document to track the collected information from community kitchens. This will allow for effective analysis of the data.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Complete Blog Post 3<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Strategy: Conduct a group meeting to create content for Blog Post 3. Additional tasks for refinement and rubric analysis will be done by each member.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">*Communication through Facebook will be key for all upcoming objectives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sources<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wujec, T. (2013, June). <em>Got a wicked problem? First, tell me how you make toast\u00a0<\/em>[Video Podcast]. Retrieved from\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_vS_b7cJn2A<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To begin, we have documented a Proposal Report to highlight the main purpose of the project and how we will obtain these results. 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