Welcome to the MAN720 blog!

The University of the Western Cape is located in the suburb of Bellville, Cape Town. Established in 1960, the university is alert to its African and international context as it strives to be a place of quality, a place to grow and a place to learn. It is committed to excellence in teaching, learning and research, to nurturing the cultural diversity of South African, and to responding in critical and creative ways to the needs of a society in transition.







This blog, the brainchild of five UWC Honours students who have been assigned a task to project manage a community based project of their choice. This assignment forms part of continuous evaluation in the Project Management [MAN720] module conducted by Percy Saungweme at the School of Business and Finance in the EMS Faculty. The demographic of the group is made up of five part-time students, two of which are living in UWC residence which currently houses approximately 3800 students. Thus the group decided to engage in a project that places it’s focus on the UWC student community.



Thursday, 25 October 2012

Close Out Presentation

You guys can see our full presentation and the work the team put in to make it possible, FOLLOW THE LINK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8smLXowjipw&feature=youtu.be

CHECK THE PICS!!!

The TEAM

Relief after the event

Pre-presentation Jitters

Sunday, 21 October 2012

Statistics: Blog views

We thought we'd add in the following graph and stats on how many times this blog site has been viewed. Thank you to all who showed an interest in the project.


Friday, 12 October 2012

PRESENTATION DAY AT RESLIFE!!!!

Presentation day at Reslife Offices 

2012-10-12!!!!

Me(Shade) and Chairperson Matt doing our final prep before we started. Have 2 admit I real nervous before the time.


               

Check us out looking all professional and such!!! Joy, Judie,Me and Matthew and no, Mvuzo didn't miss the meeting, he was our photographer for the day.(THANKS AGAIN Mvuzo and the lovely Mrs Joy for setting up everything so nicely for us. I think I speak on behalf of everyone in the group when I say we'd be very lost without you, it's much appreciated <3)

 AND LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST,  A SPECIAL THANKS TO THE PEOPLE AT THE RESLIFE COMMUNITY, FOR INVITING US IN AND FOR ALLOWING OUR TEAM THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK TOGETHER WITH THE RESLIFE OFFICE IN INCREASING THE AWARENESS OF THE SKILLS RESOURCE AND EXCHANGE PROGRAMME.


                 

 
GROUP PT7 Striking a Final Pose!!!! :) After we did our presentation, Matt looking like a real Chairman(ALL SERIOUS lol)




Thursday, 11 October 2012

Dare To Dream - Maya Angelou

I just thought I'd spread a little message of inspiration from one of the great American poets for all to enjoy...

Maya Angelou







Once you find your shoulders dropping
And your speech gets slow and hazy
You better change your way of being
Before you found your brain got lazy
You can build a better future when you join the winning team
If you desire a bright tomorrow, you must build a brighter dream
Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you
Know that history holds more than it seems
We are here alive today because our ancestors dared to dream
From Africa they lay in the bilge of slave ships
And stood naked on auction blocks
From eastern-Europe they crowded in vessels overloaded with immigrants
And were mis-named on Ellis Island
From South America and Mexico, from Asia, they laboured in sweat shops
From all over the world, they came to America
Many shivering in rags, and still they dared to dream
Let us dream for today and for tomorrow
Let us dare to dream”
                                                                                                                                ~ Maya Angelou





LET US NEVER FORGET TO DREAM, BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T HAVE A DREAM YOU HAVE NOTHING

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

..aaaand ACTION !

Hi all,

Take a look at the introductory video shot and edited by UWC Eleaning team. The video is of Gretna Andipatin, ResLife Manager, who gives a brief intro to ResLife and what, who, why, how ... If you would like more information the contact details are at the end of the vid ;-)

....aaaaand It's a Wrap !

Monday, 8 October 2012

Digital Content Gathering ...!

Hello,

So last week our team embarked on a content gathering mission! Content gathering for what ...? Well, gathering digital content for RESLife to use on the UWC website :-) The RESLife office is still very new and there is not a lot of exposure on who is part of the team. So we took it upon ourselves to arrange a photo shoot with the team, get the 'Head shots' and 'Team Shots'. We then also managed to get UWC Elearning team to shoot a 2min introductory video of Gretna Andipatin, who is the RESLife manager. Below are some of the pictures taken and we will post the video soon soon :-)

Thanks to all involved





Wednesday, 3 October 2012

SPONSORSHIP :-)))



We received awesome news today that Prudential Portfolio Managers (www.prudential.co.za) has agreed to donate R10 000 towards the UWC ResLife Skills Resource and Exchange Programme. WOW !!!

The Skills Resource and Exchange Programme is just one of the ways in which ResLife is reaching out to the UWC resident students at campus. SREP is there to assist students when they find themselves in a situation where they cannot 'make ends meet'. The programme assists in placing the students in part-time tutor or admin positions on campus and in return provides them with meeting the basics needs eg a meal.

Thank you Prudential for considering SREP !!!