Last Night's Summary

By now I've posted comments back to almost all the students to reflect my comments and additional thoughts from last night.

I would still encourage all students to post, *very soon* a brief account of what you got out of last night, what was valuable etc.

My understanding from the conversation last night we also agreed the following updates are important for progress and discussion next week:

1. A thesis statement: to appear on the blog, which will continued to be worked, reworked and adapted as progress continues. This should describe the general goals or premise that is the driving force instigating the research, site, program or method of study (as it pertains to each individual's project)
   
2. Outline Schedule: a rough draft of when you want to have elements nailed down, when case studies should be wrapped up by, when site visits are occurring, when you would like to meet with an adviser by or get comments back on topics. All currently directed towards the non-moving deadline of the presentation weekend. (ideally I think we may want a dry run of these the week before??)
3. Weekend Update: the 3PM Sunday deadline really helped all us advisers to be check your work and hit the ground running, this will be the standard for the rest of the course. (just because the deadline is Sunday doesn't mean you can't post ideas/questions/pictures/analysis earlier)

Overall last night, I think you have picked up momentum from the previous weeks, and I want to make sure that we keep picking up momentum. Some of you have very important contacts to be made and preliminary information that is still not gathered - please follow up on these. As you well know the schedule is tight and you can't afford to wait.

Keep it up!