Sunday, October 28, 2007

This week Erin and I (Sara) were able to meet and make some final decisions about both the written proposal as well as the actual website design. Each person in the group has completed their part of the proposal and it is, for the most part, complete. Over the weekend, I worked on finalizing the website design and hopefully it is what Ms. Shelby is looking for.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Weekly Update

This week our group met twice. During these meetings we discussed our ideas for the proposal, and delegated the work. We plan to have most of the proposal finished by this coming week. Sara was assigned to work on the actual design of the Website. Carson was going to start working on the executive summary, the task, and our vision. Quiesha was assigned the task of designing a cover page and writing the proposal summary. I am in charge of doing some research and writing the introduction letter. We hope to meet sometime this coming week to start putting everything together.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Update

Our group met for the first time this week. Sara and Quiesha were in Chicago for the architecture field trip so only Carson and I got together. Our goal for the meeting was to get a basic understanding of what Shelby wants the website to look like. We were able to accomplish this by looking at the information Shelby sent us. Our group plans to meet twice next week once Sara and Quiesha return form Chicago. During these meetings we will begin to put our ideas together on the actual design of the website.

Monday, October 8, 2007

Ethics

The article we found as about the Alliance for Human Research Protection. The article was about how foster care children were being used for tests. HIV positive children were used to test the safety of various AIDS drugs and vaccines. Between 1988 and 2001 465 HIV positive children in foster care were tested. The people that were tested were children and babies. The article stated that the city had allowed babies in foster care who were not perilously ill to be tested. It also stated that one family of foster parents who refused to allow their kids to be tested had their kids taken away. The most recent article about this topic stated that the New York City Administration for Children's Services was reviewing the trials that were conducted on the children.

http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/05/04/23a.php

Sunday, October 7, 2007

This week, we are going to try and meet before Quiesha and I leave for Chicago. We looked over the e-mail about links that Ms. Shelby sent and it was a tremendous help. It gave us a better idea of what we need to look at and where the Habitat ReStore wants to go with this website. Hopefully we can begin to really get to work on the actual website design and layout and ideally get some proofs worked out after Fall Break.