Feb 22, 2007

Hey

We are just working on the website! We watched a movie today, very interesting. Tech group is keeping it real in the comm 250 hood. Anyways, we will just keep pushing forward and doing things to better the company, in some way or another!!

JP

Feb 20, 2007

Hey things are starting to move along. I am just grateful that the blog is starting to function as intended. Technology is at the leise of the other groups, here to help in any way we can. I think that our next project is to get a website up and running. We'll see how it goes. Ate mais!!!

Justin Pitcher

Feb 8, 2007

After today's class, i think it is easy to see how hard it can be to organize and communicate with so many viewpoints and opinions. However, at least we are talking and discussing them now so we can work with them. The technology group is at the mercy of the others; we work when we are needed. After reading the article on blackboard, we learn that for success to happen, we must experience some form of inconveniance. The thoughts that came to my mind while reading were the two facts that one the natural man is lazy and not submissive to the will of God. Second, that is why we are here, to grow, to learn, and to be uncomfortable. Our goal here is to submit the flesh to our will, which should be the will of God and thus, be worthy for the eternal blessings that God has in store for us. May we keep that in mind and continue towards that goal. And, may we handle the inconvenience in class and learn and be patient.

Feb 6, 2007 blog

I felt pretty good about today. However, we do need more time to work in groups. We, the technology group, needs some time to get all the blog confusion settled and solved. The ball is slowly moving on!!
Justin P

Feb 1, 2007

Today was actually pretty good. Once we get everything going, the class will become more organized and interesting. We just need to work together and help out where needed. This little project should turn out nice with effective teamwork. We all have our own little part to do, and we should focus on that for the benefit of the whole. With the help of "the Divine Center" and the seven habits, we can incorporate learning and improvement into our groups and personal lives.
Justin Pitcher

Jan 30, 2007

Today we discussed the Divine Center, a book written by Stephen Covey. All of our lives should be concretely based on the divine center of God and Jesus Christ. It doesn't matter what we do if here in this life if it isn't for the progress and further establishment of God's kingdom. With our priorities straight, we can actually have unselfish purposes in our everyday activities here, especially here in school. We must remember that this isn't our education, its God's and used for His work.

With that, we discussed further the class project, we got into our teams and planned out further activities. One key principle learned is that as sub-divisions of the whole, we must do all we can to optimize the whole and sub-optimize the parts of the organization. And by so doing, we can contribute for the best of our constituents (stake holders).

Jan 25, 2007

I found it rather intriguing analyzing the problems of the Columbia mission while working with the technology group. We discussed the facts that while certainly evident that there were significant technological problems, they were overlooked and not given much importance. It wasn't just in this case, the article discusses several past complications that weren't taken care of either. With that in mind, a lack of awareness and communication each caused this breakdown, a serious technological problem occurred, and 7 innocent lives were lost as a result. Technology needed to be updated and better handled in this situation. There were technological problems, but the consequences thereof could have been avoided if taken care of earlier and upgrades were made through sufficient and efficient funding.

Our poster discusses these matters. We placed a space shuttle colored in retro sixties colors to symbolize the out-of-date technology used, we placed some bugs "beetles" signifying the sixties band, a peace sign in red and inside of the o-ring, we placed an o-ring-broke down in the challenger and a depiction of the weak panels that protected the foam, and we placed a marijuana joint also representing the sixties. The two men with a math problem in the middle represent the lack of problem acknowledgement, they are facing outwards with their backs to the problem, and below that is a stone wall representing the "stand still" and lack of communication pertaining to the matters. The money represents the significant costs involved.

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