SOW+summaries-Cast+Falcons

From christina another question for Cast Falcons: Why didn't you include SCORM in your background of military training? SCORM / S<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font: 13px sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; webkitborderhorizontalspacing: 0px; webkitborderverticalspacing: 0px; webkittextdecorationsineffect: none; webkittextsizeadjust: auto; webkittextstrokewidth: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">**harable Content Object Reference Model** <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font: 13px sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; webkitborderhorizontalspacing: 0px; webkitborderverticalspacing: 0px; webkittextdecorationsineffect: none; webkittextsizeadjust: auto; webkittextstrokewidth: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> is a specification of the [|Advanced Distributed Learning] (ADL) Initiative, which comes out of the Office of the [|United States Secretary of Defense]<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font: 13px sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; webkitborderhorizontalspacing: 0px; webkitborderverticalspacing: 0px; webkittextdecorationsineffect: none; webkittextsizeadjust: auto; webkittextstrokewidth: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> which mandates that all its e-learning purchases must comply with SCORM standards.

1-In the introduction you state that the courses are directed to digital natives. Why limit your marketing to digital natives?** environments to support traditional courses and improve student satisfaction in distance courses.”
 * From Christina Question for Skynet:
 * 2-At the start of the introduction you state that you are current and focused on digital natives, yet after you give percentages you somewhat contradict the statement by stating, “** Skynet //is introducing// mobile technology for use in traditional and online learning

Melinda 10/25 - "The proposal documents have different sections since they have different purposes. That was my understanding based on Assignment 4’s proposal link in WebCT-- those are the sections that we would divide." - This is my understanding as well. I have posted the PDF with this information in the Responses to Other Teams section of the Wiki.

Hi Christina. I thought the SOW and the proposal documents have different sections since they have different purposes. That was my understanding based on Assignment 4’s proposal link in WebCT-- those are the sections that we would divide. We would create a template to use on all three proposals. But now I am not sure. Could someone please clarify?

Thanks katie. I have a few questions about the **business group's SOW**. They state they want to "..improve business communication and practices in the work environment, increase an understanding of cross cultural barriers.increase an understanding of cross cultural barriers, bridge these two cultures and develop an awareness of the essential characteristics of the Indian business culture but is NOT intended to be a diversity or awareness training application and should focus only on the essentials necessary for conducting business." Bridging cultures would indeed be diversity/awareness training, wouldn't it?

The Tasks section was written with an abrupt jump into a different format and different voice. Each sentence began with, “The contract will” it had a legal tone to it and I wondered why it had that tone, if all legal issues were covered and what the “Foreign Corrupt Practices Act” is, is it necessary is it part of some agreement? Maybe a link should have been added. It also brought up the question whether there was a need to be compliant with other legalities foreign/US.

We are creating 3 proposals, using the format we already used, each responsible for the section we did in our SOW. If I am incorrect, please correct me-(still groggy but I appreciate your patience)

 Katie: 10/25 2:02 p.m. I received an error message when saving my comment, which caused Christina’s message and my message to disappear. I managed to find the original in the Account manager page. Here are our messages:

Katie: 10/25 1:45 p.m. Hi Christina. I thought our next step is to create three proposals, using a standard template that we choose (but would likely include the sections that Dr. Atkinson lists on our assignment description page). So we would assign the proposal sections of our template. If we have specific questions regarding a team’s SOW content (such as conflicting information) as we are completing our sections, we would post the questions on the Team’s discussion board (or here on Wiki first in case someone in our group can answer the question). As each of us work on our assigned sections, we would post a summary on Goggle Docs in our assigned section before completing the details (to ensure we are all on the same track). You make a good point about the Falcon SOW! I think we should ask that team for clarification.

From Christina-.The Statement of Work prepared by the Cast Falcons had different components from the SOW model that we used, So our plan that considered assigning equivalent/corresponding components seems inappropriate. I am going yo post my impressions here, and if we decide another route I will go with your decision.

In my opinion, I found that the Cast Falcon SOW Background, Program and Scope were not distinct and but overlapped in content and I found content to be contradictory. It appears the SOW had the necessary structure but content was lacking. For example, the background stated, “…This requires language proficiency and cross-cultural competency skill sets that enable military personnel at all levels not only to participate in conversations, but also be able to gain trust and to work cooperatively with a host country’s citizens in culturally complex environments without the permanent need of a translator. "

Yet, in the Scope section "The scope of this effort is limited to content that provides instruction in Arabic to an Interagency Language Roundtable proficiency level 2+ (limited working proficiency, plus) of speaking, listening comprehension, and translation, and an Interagency Language Roundtable reading comprehension level of 1 (elementary proficiency). " It seems to me that the level of proficiency the job calls for is not what the SOW can provide “limited to “working proficiency and elementary proficienct”. Both of these levels would require a translator for technical issues and also to gain “trust” in the Arabic complex culture. There are areas that display lack of attention to detail, as there is a "hole "or missing deliverable; look at Key Tasks, you will see that the sentence begins but there is no task listed.