Our Group Collaboration!

4/10/2012

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This week’s blog post will be about our group’s collaboration and our duties. My group members and I (Abby & Andrea) will be co-authoring this blog post. Enjoy!

 Our group’s strategy for our project is to use a mix of both collaborations:
hierarchical and dialogic. All three of us are researching on our own to piece
everything together. We also have decided to interview peers on the types of dog food they are feeding their own dog and why. We have scheduled to interview a local vet and PetsMart employees. A portion of our project will be done dialogically also. We will all be working together to find information and discuss with each other. We are all excited to begin our project and start working together!

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Collaborative Project

4/9/2012

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This week in class, we picked group members and began talking about our collaborative projects. My group members are Andrea Emma and Allyson Robenalt and we will be writing this blog together. We will be talking about our plans for our project!
    Choosing a topic for our collaborative research project was very easy for us, all being animal lovers, especially dogs! We chose the topic of what ingredients are in the food that we are feeding our animals. All being pet lovers, and Andrea working at Pets Smart this is project that will really be important to all of us. After watching Food Inc. in class and see what was placed in our foods we thought to our self’s we can only imagine what is place in our pets food. We are all curious as to what is good for our dogs to eat and what isn’t. There are many pet foods out there that all filled with fillers and ingredients that are not good for our animals at all. After all talking, we realized we all feed our dogs different brands of dog food. For our project we plan on interviewing various people in Pets Mart that are buying pet food. We also want to interview a local vet to see what he/she has to say about the food we are feeding our animals. We are also going to look on Pet food websites to see testimonials from buyers and if there are any informational videos on specific brand dog foods.
    The questions we would like to find out are: Is this harming our pet? Is my pet getting their full nutritional value from their food? What are the long term affects it has on our animals? Our audience for our project will be pet owners and it will be an informative piece.  We want to find answers to our questions to be able to inform pet owners of what their animals are really eating.

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