Blog 20 : Three Column Chart

3 Column Chart Draft

Blog 19: Senior Project and ESLRs

1.  What ESLR have you excelled in most in your senior project? 

• The ESLR that I have excelled the most in my senior project would have to be "Effective Learner".

2.  Please explain why you think you have excelled in this ESLR.

• The reason why I think I have excelled in this ESLR because the only way to gain knowledge on your senior project is for yourself to do research and find interesting facts involving your project. I try to find a lot of resources and look for research involving skateboarding. I do the same thing when it comes down to the business side of it.

3.  Provide evidence from your senior project to support your claim (evidence is a photo of something you are doing, photo of something you made, etc).

• This is some stuff I gave away in one of my presentation that all came from the skate shop, Covert. I feel like this is good evidence because I did struggle finding a shop for mentorship and I really have learned a lot from it.

Blog 18: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

1.  What is your essential question?

• What is the best way to sustain a profitable skateshop?

2.  What is your third answer to your essential question (write your third answer in a complete sentence)?

• My third answer to my essential question is marketing/marketing plan your skate shop, this well help your business gain profit.

3.  What are three details to support or justify your third answer (details are examples or facts)?

• By marketing you get the word  out of your shop attracting customers to your shop that may be potential buyers.
• With marketing you get reputation with your buesiness because it builds brand name reconigiton and is involved with the community.
• Also your shop will get higer sales due to the fact that you are attracting more customers which is always a good benefit. 

4.  What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?

• The source that helped me prove this was an article called "The Importance of Marketing for the Success of a Business", on Houston Chronicle, Kristie Lorette and Demand Media.

5.  What do you plan to study next and why? 

• What I plan to study next is more marketing strategies and the marketing plan itself. Just ways to attract and gain profit by marketing.

Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1. My essential question is, what is the best way to sustain a profitable skate shop?

2. My second answer to my essential question, knowing and understanding how business works. It is baiscally the foundation of your shop and is a key factor.

3. One of details would be how to start your business. How can you gain profit with your own brand? What kind of business are you running?

4. Surces that helped me justify my answer would be entrepreneur.com, my mentor, and an interview with Utility Board Supply I did.

5. I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by doing more reserch and focusing on business related topics, also by checking out more books on business.

Senior Project Update

(1) What are you currently doing in your independent component?

• So far I'm still not positive on what my independent component will be but for the moment it is helping run the shop with customer service, displaying new products, and working with events.

(2) What is a recent piece of research (article, interview, or audio-visual) that have you reviewed you would say was significant in helping you understand where to go next in your senior project?  The piece of research should be something you reviewed in November.  Please explain what you learned and where are you going next because of this piece of research.

• A piece of research was an article I read called "Build a Good Relationship With Suppliers", which baiscally explained how to have a better relationship with your suppliers for your business. This could be use full and I could proably get to see how the "suppliers" thing works.

(3) Provide evidence from your independent component or the piece of research as something you recently did.  For example, a photo of something you working on for your independent component or your notes from the video you watched. 

• Well I worked during a "Sticker Exchange" at Covert and I already uploaded some picctures down below. It was a fun event that was a first time experience. 

Blog 9: Working EQ and Possible Answers

1) What was the working EQ you used during your presentation?

• The working EQ used during my presentation was "What is the most successful way to run a skate shop?".

2) Did you decide to revise your working EQ after your presentation? If so, write your revised EQ here.  If not simple write "I am not going to revise my EQ at this time".

• I am not going to revise my EQ at this time.

(3) What are possible answers to your current working EQ? 

• Some possible answers to my working EQ are being passionate about skateboarding in general, having good merchandise in your shop, and having good employees that also have a passion for skateboarding.