Journal 5 Week of 02/05-02/09

Overall, this was a really good week, and I was able to make a good amount of progress

on my overall project. On Monday I began sorting my stakeholders by placing them into two

groups: those who had attended the informational stakeholder meeting and those who were

unable to. I started drafting and then sent a recap email to those who had been there. I also began

drafting a separate email, with much more information, to be sent to those who were unable to

attend. On Tuesday I sent the other email for those who could not make it to the informational

meeting. Although they could not make the meeting their input and participation is still

incredibly important to me, so it is important that I keep in contact with them. I let them know

that if they want to meet one-on-one when their schedules allow that I would be able to review

with them what we had discussed at the meeting and what the next steps are. I also began

familiarizing myself with Qualtrics on Tuesday.

On Wednesday I added and designed my survey on Qualtrics. This was my first time

creating and designing my own survey on Qualtrics, so I was excited to be able to learn how to

use this resource. I am familiar with survey monkey but being taught how to use Qualtrics will

be very useful going forward. I also had the opportunity to assist with a short community

development and civic encouragement event with GMC middle school. Through facilitating

various activities and discussion we were encouraging students to be active community members

and helpful to their neighbors. On Thursday I met with my supervisor to discuss my survey and

next steps. We went over my survey in Qualtrics to see how it flowed and practiced doing an

interview with supervisor so that I could start getting comfortable with the questions and
phrasing. We also reviewed the IRB application process as we are hoping to get IRB approval so

that we could potentially publish the data that we do collect. On Friday, I worked on adding

some logics into my survey so that it would be flow better. I then reviewed my survey once more

to make sure it would appear correctly and that it flowed when I would offer it over the phone. I

also began planning out the scheduling for the interviews that I will be conducting with these

stakeholders. I want to have the interviews completed hopefully by mid-March.

Lessons Learned

The big thing I learned this week was how to use Qualtrics, and I feel as if learning to use

this will be beneficial throughout graduate school and other career endeavors. Being able to learn

various resources that I will encounter after graduation, while I am still in school has been and

will be incredibly beneficial. Also being able to work with the local middle schoolers on

community engagement was very eye opening into concept of getting all aspects of the

community to work together to truly improve it.

Date Time In Lunch Time Out Total Hours

Monday 02/05 11:30AM 0 5:00PM 5.5
Tuesday 02/06 8:00AM 0 1:30PM 5.5
Wednesday 02/07 8:00AM 12:30-1:00PM 5:00PM 8.5
Thursday 02/08 8:00AM 1:00-1:30PM 4:30PM 8
Friday 2/09 8:00AM 12:30-1:00PM 4:30PM 8

Total Hours This Week: 35.5

Total Hours to Date: 151.5