Our Plan!

Okay everyone, after meeting with Elsa and Bronwyn yesterday we have come up with a rough plan of things to have done each week to help us keep on track and also pre planned when to next meet as a group, let us know if its not suitable for you though and we will work something out :)
We decided to make the question more specific as alison had suggested and to focus more on the perceptions and social attitudes towards the accents rather than try to do that AND intensely compare the phonological structure of the accents.
We made small goals which are

END OF WEEK 6 -
To have watched the assigned clips and transcribed these phonetically to use as a basis to create a question.
To have each produced a question and as a group made a 5 question questionnaire on a google docs.

END OF WEEK 7-
To have distributed the questionnaire to 10 friends (for each group member) to complete of different age, ethnicity, gender etc to try and get a wide range of data.
To have got the results back and tried to identify some basic results and conclusions.
To make the post on what we have done so far and plan to do next for milestone 2.

END OF WEEK 8-
To meet on monday at a time to suit all, possibly 3 after our LWA lecture?
To combine togther the results we have each collected and decide on our analysis and conclusion for our study.

END OF WEEK 10-
To meet again on the monday of week 10 to review to progress of combining our presentation and powerpoint and perhaps contribute any final thoughts and additional information.
TO HAVE OUR PRESENTATUION READY!

WEEK 11-
WE PRESENT, EEEKKKK.


We decided to now analyse two 1 minute clips from youtube which have at least 3 characters speaking in the clip to get a variety of accent portrayal.
We also thought if we send the questionnaire as an email to complete we can send a youtube link of the clips and include this in the questionnaire which will be a great aid in getting more accurate results.
Use the clip to help decide on a question you feel is interesting and perhaps post on the blog the topic your question will be on so we don't have people doing the same thing without realising :)
Try and have subquestions or gain a variety of answers from your question, we also thought it would be good to have differnt styles of question such as sacles, multiple choice or simply writing what they think.

I'll now go on youtube and decide on the clips and post the links on the blog later today along with who will transcibe which parts.
We also said we would overlap what people transcribe to make sure all the phonetical transcription is accurate as we will scan these and include them in our presentation as a resource our questions were based on.

I hope this all makes sense, I feel much better now we have come up with a timeline and plan :)
Let me know if there is anything anyone disagrees with.
XXX