For our group collaborative project, my partner and I are focusing on child abuse and maltreatment. We chose this topic because we’ve both had experience with this issue. We know that we won’t be able to completely eradicate child abuse on a large scale given the amount of time that we’ve been given, but we really want to bring awareness to the issue. My partner Mary and I met on Monday (11/2/2020) to discuss our topic and create a plan so we could begin moving forward. After some discussion, it was decided that Mary would be the “leader” since she has done a project/portfolio for Dr. Kilborn in a few previous classes so she has more experience that I do. Since Mary agreed to be the group leader, she set up our group blog and we’ll being posting in it on a weekly basis. My hope is that we can meet sometime next week and schedule weekly meetings going forward so we can get some type of momentum going. We’re both very strong communicators so we’ve have our Zoom meeting, talked through, email and through the group discussion section on D2L.

Thankfully, Mary and I are both tech savvy so we’ve already set up our Twitter and Instagram pages for our social media campaign. Mary has already posted the first Instagram post, so that’s a good start. We both have access to both platforms so we can get more postings done that way. We’ve agreed that we both will do 2 videos a piece and I might suggest that we make one additional video together – just to be on the safe side. We’re still in the brainstorming stage, but I think with our work ethics and innovative spirits, we’ll be able to create a compelling and informative social campaign for this collaborative project.