Project management is important. It is how creators stay organized and accomplish tasks in a timely manner. Notion is a cool project management system that I decided to use for my project management process to develop a toolkit/booklet for NCAA student-athletes and the new name, image and likeness rules.
Research
The research phase of the project process will be ongoing and growing throughout the next five weeks. An annotated bibliography will be used to compile all research tools and sources throughout the process. On Notion, I noted the week-by-week process of adding annotations to the bibliography.
Pre-production
This phase of the project will include planning out pages and information, along with conducting interviews with student-athletes at Quinnipiac. This phase will be used to prepare and organize information before the production phase. I am interested to see what student-athletes know about the NCAA name, image and likeness regulations. The information I gather from the student-athletes will be used to decipher what information is especially important to use in the booklet.
I came across the National College Players Association and was curious to see if student-athletes know what that organization is. The mission of the NCPA is to protect future, current and former college athletes. The NCPA is a great resource for student-athletes, but I am not sure many even know about it. I will use the Zoom interviews to see what they do know.
Production
The production phase will include assembling the pages of the booklet in an Adobe InDesign document. InDesign is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite and is an awesome software for desktop publishing, so I decided to use that for the booklet.
I will have to organize the booklet based on the information the NCAA has released and stated in the new rulings, and what information seems to be necessary for student-athletes.
Post-Production
This phase will include editing the booklet and proofreading. Reorganization of pages could be needed, so this phase will be essential after I have gone past the first three phases.
MAGGIE PRUITT 