Project Proposal

February 14,2017

Stone Pearson

Proposal: Learning German

I am going to learn German

Needs and Opportunities

Are you solving a problem for yourself or others? How will this project be a learning and growing experience? What is your goal? I really want to learn a language besides English and I think I will like German. This project will help me learn about the German language. I will research some German cultures too. My goal for this year is to be able to learn at least 150 German words by the end of this year.

Audience / Clients / Users

Explain who will benefit from your project. Who is your audience – who might be interested in following your blog and learning about your project? I will benefit from this project because I learn a new language. My friend will probably benefit from this project because he is in German and I think it will help him if he teaches me. People interested in my blog will probably be people who want to learn another language too but they think it’s too difficult. My audience will be people who want to learn another language like me and they might want to figure out how I did it.

Mentors

Who can help you with this project? Who will you need to contact and what will you ask them to commit to in helping you? My friend can help me with this project because he is in German. I will just contact him to come over to my house and he can help.

Timeline

What is your monthly timeline for this project? I want to see a list of deliverables with deadlines. You may find that the timeline needs adjustment during the course of the year, which may be fine. Check in with me if that’s the case.

February 17	Learn history of Germany
February 24	Learn history of Germany
March 3	Review
March 10	Learn German words
March 24	Learn German words
March 31	Review
April 7	Write All words down
April 14	Learn German words
April 21	Learn German words
April 28	Review
May 5 (Prep for Presentation Day)	Get all supplies and make a board
May 12 (Presentation Day)	Present

Product

What is the actual product you will show this spring? This project may or may not be made of atoms or bits, but you must have something to show. I’m not interested seeing a bunch of great ideas at the end of the year. I want to see things. Use a poster board that shows all the words I learned and the English words that they mean next to them.

Technology

You will have to use technology in some way on presentation day – think about how you can use the tools available to add life into your project and enhance what you are doing. (Video, laptops, apps, cell phones, music, etc.) On my laptop create a PowerPoint of all the things I learned every day and then show that off.

Reality Check

I am looking for you to shoot for the moon here and do anything you can dream of, but even moonshots need budgets. What equipment are you going to need? What other capital expenditures do you anticipate, and how will you meet them? My phone has an app that keeps me on track every day and teaches me things about it and its even free.

Possible Roadblocks

What other roadblocks can you predict – time, resources, motivation etc. Explain what you might do when you come to each roadblock to reach your goal. My friend can help me with this project because he is in German. I will just contact him to come over to my house and he can help.

Conclusion

Wrap it up. Why are you fired up about this project? Inspire me to support you, and give me a great reason to approve your project. I haven’t ever learned another language besides a little bit of Spanish and I think it will be fun to learn new languages.