Summary+and+Oct+1+Meeting

Hi Ladies!
I had an opportunity to speak with Dr. Atkinson last night after class in a f2f meeting I have for another class I'm taking with him. I clarified exactly what the material he sent us was for. The module he sent us was just suppose to be an example of something that could be made or to be used as a reference for ideas of what could be included in our SOW as far as techniques, objectives and such. The module he sent was just on the aging process --it didn't have anything to do with what he spoke to us in class about the Medicaid/Medicare module directly--that is a separate project. So I guess if we are still interested in the Medicaid/Medicare option we would have to speak with him further. I also reminded him again the other options we are deciding on...in all honesty he didn't seem as interested in them (he jokingly yawned and said they have been done before), except for the online simulation portion that Melinda suggested. He also proposed another idea for us: To create training that would be used on a mobile learning device so that a user could have access to it and go through the training while they were in the nursing care facility (can you tell by now he is all about the mobile learning? :). It seems like he is looking for some creativity in our topics. I hope by tonight or tomorrow we can reach a topic idea so we can begin our SOW :D

Awesome that you were able to get the materials Melinda. Thanks for all the work on gathering the materials to give us more options. You are a super team leader :D

For Christina: That is really cool! Yes, please keep us updated on the outcome of your submission!

~Michelle

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//From Christina- I wiil not be able to attend the meeting this evening unfortunately. I cannot give an opinion regarding topic selection as all options are not available now (Thursday a.m.) However, I feel that Melinda has the best insight as to the most appropriate selection as she has real life experience with 2 of the options and I look forward to her assessment of the situation. (Meanwhile, I submitted my ideas for Dept of Veteran Affairs/HealtheVet program revision to President Obama's call for ideas/plans to save $$ and lower administrative burden-I will let you all know what comes of it if anything. I wiill know by the end of November if they find any merit there))//====== 

Michelle - I copied and pasted the information from the other page. If the number has changed, please feel free to edit the information below.

All Participants - I will be writing up summary tomorrow and posting it here. - Melinda

Summary of Meetings on Sunday and Monday.

Hello everyone. Here goes:

1. At both meetings we discussed some of the pros and cons to both project ideas. There was a collective agreement in both sessions that reviewing the previously created material would greatly assist in selection. Accordingly, Melinda would request information from Dr. Atkinson and Dr. Reggelin so that both documents could be reviewed. As of today's writing, we have received Dr. Atkinson's information which is currently located on our groups class discussion board. I will be posting it here as well. I was able to get in touch with Dr. Reggelin on Monday and she was very interested in our project. She stated she would have her assistant send me the facilitator's guide to the course. As of today, I have not yet received it, but will be calling to check on the status tomorrow (Wednesday) with a hope to post it prior to Thursday. It also occurred to me while speaking with Katie, that I have a background in Human Resources and I work for an agency. Accordingly, we also have the option of developing a course for an agency based on my HR background.

2. We need to confirm topic selection. These are how I see our options:

I. Dr. Atkinson's course to update his Powerpoint. II. Dr. Reggelin's facilitator lead program to convert to an online environment. III. An HR related topic for a government agency. There have been recent changes in HR law that would provide material.

Accordingly, please review the material Dr. A posted and review the guide to the other course if I receive it tomorrow (hopefully) I will post a status on this material anyway. I can also look into seeing if we can post a sample of the type of HR training in question.

Please review this information and consider which topic you would like to work on. We will be having a 2nd teleconference this Thursday. For those that can not make that time, please arrange another time prior to the meeting where I can get your thoughts on training topics. We will hopefully have a finalized topic choice by Thursday evening or Friday at the latest.

3. Once the topic has been confirmed, Michelle will be creating our Google doc to begin the SOW collaboration document. We will use the sections outlined in Assignment 4.

4. Also when we have chosen a topic, Melinda will create a new page for us to sign up for a SOW section and a place to provide a estimated time frame for each section. We will proceed in order with the intent of having a very rough draft completed between Oct 7 - 10. We hope to submit this to Dr. A no later than Oct. 10 giving him 5 days to review and return to us by Oct 14 giving us a week for revisions. This assignment is due Oct 21.

5. We have not yet determined how we will divide up work for the response portion of the project due to the unknown variables about what the other groups SOW will contain. I submit we wait until all projects are posted and make a more educated determination at this time. For example, one project may be more straight forward thus may need fewer participants heavily involved in response development.

While I was typing this Michelle and Maria posted, please review their comments as well as mine. I look forward to a productive discussion on Thursday. As always, please feel free to call me at (321) 354-5499.

- Melinda

10/1/09 Good day. I went to post an update yesterday and Wikispaces was down (go figure). Anyway, in addition to the information from Dr. A, I have gotten in touch with the good folks from the Commission on Aging and have been given a hard copy of the Senior Sensitivity Workshop (an electronic version was not available). We can discuss this tonight. They are very excited about maybe getting some ideas of how to take this program into another venue. I guess I would need to type up an outline based on this facilitator guide for us to work from. I will be talking with my boss regarding a project on HR.

Looking forward to speaking with some of you tonight. Have a great day!

Sincerely, Melinda

Teleconference Meeting - This Thursday, October 1, 8:00 PM Please call **1-218-486-2209** and enter the Participant ID when prompt.
 * Participant ID: 6201746**


 * If you have any problems please call me at 352-514-8541 ~Michelle

From Christina Thank you!

Looks like we got our PPT from DR. Atkinson-whoo hoo!

**Hey Everyone, Maria and I had some time to look through Dr. A’s ppt that he sent during our lunchtime today and wanted to just post some thoughts we had.

- We noticed that the whole ppt was kind of geared toward what Melinda was suggesting as far as knowledge in senior sensitivity, but unsure where the Medicaid/Medicare part comes in? (Or maybe since this is just 1 module out of the whole training, he sent this section since it related to what we were aiming to do?)

- If we used this ppt, would the main goal be to write up the SOW so that the other teams would basically recreate/improve this ppt? We noticed this ppt was from 2003 and probably needs to be updated.

- Is this ppt and pdf Dr. A sent similar to the type of information you’re trying to get from your resource Melinda?

- Lastly I guess Maria and I are still unsure what our main goal would be in either option… Our guess for Dr A’s project would be to update/make better his original ppt.

- For the other option** 
 * **Are we aiming to deliver similar content and knowledge as Dr. A’s ppt, but have more of a hands-on-approach? Such as this:[| http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com]**
 * **Would the topic we came up with be more narrowed down to senior sensitivity training for caretakers of seniors and the training ‘materials’ would be in an online application?**
 * **Or would it be more like sensitivity training for web developers/designers/ graphic artists/ any software developer or web programs, especially aimed for seniors like online health care databases? Hence the online simulation to mimic what a seniors goes through when dealing with technology so they can improve them?**
 * I guess we are kind of just all over the place ! Sorry if we made it more confusing O_o Either way we both agree that the information he gave us is definitely beneficial to whatever we decide to do.**


 * Maria and Michelle :) **