Bobby reviewed the order of his presentation slides and made adjustments. He added a marketing slide and a summary slide which he will finalize with content during our next class.
Assignment
Decide on marketing strategy
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Bobby left a few minutes early saying he had to take his sister to school. He was attentive and contributed good ideas to his business plan today.
For critical thinking we discussed the challenges associated with competing in the video game building business. We also discussed costs and the current structure of market. We continued discussions of current events in the equity markets as well.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Cabo was very quiet and appeared very tired during our meeting today. He was reluctant to add to our discussions and seemed to be focused on other things.
Bobby created two new slides to summarize cash flows and returns in his presentation. Our plan is to clean them up the rest of this week and work on marketing strategy.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Bobby was very attentive and engaged in his project today. I expect he will be finished with the financial analysis part this week and will move on to marketing strategy.
Bobby worked on building out his forecast of investor earnings on a 10% stake in his business. We calculated percentages and then annualized returns.
Session Minutes
30
Minutes Student Attended
30
Lesson Comments
Bobby did an excellent job reformatting cells and transposing data from Excel into PowerPoint. We are making great progress on his business plan and should be ready to work on preparing to deliver a presentation by next week.
We discussed stock trading and investing strategies including the difference between fundamental and technical analysis techniques. We worked with channels, shelves and the RSI index as tools for timing transactions.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Cabo was interested in technical analysis tools for investing and trading. I showed him some charting techniques and we discussed the logic behind why they work.
Bobby worked on building profitability tables including seven year cash flow and returns. We will import these to the presentation next class.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
30
Lesson Comments
Bobby connected on Teams at 1:00pm for his scheduled 12:30 session (30 minutes late). He claimed he was stuck in traffic. He worked well with me during the 30 minutes we had. We continue to build on concepts previously learned.
Bobby worked on seven year profitability tables in Excel including cash flow and equity sale amounts. We will continue calculating returns and then import results to the presentation.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Bobby was cooperative but he did jump on Teams a few minutes late. He seems to be keeping up very well with our project and is learning new processes each day.
We discussed technical and fundamental trading methods that traders use to time market entry into stocks. We discussed how both methods can be used to make trading decisions as a critical thinking exercise.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Cabo was very interested in the stock movements of AMC and GME this week. As such, we discussed technical analysis methods as opposed to fundamental analysis for critical thinking today.
We discussed video war games and how they might work differently depending upon the year the game takes place, and how fast new technology can be developed. The difficulty lies in having to recover from destroyed assets.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Cabo was not assigned any new homework through the normal channel, so we discussed critical thinking exercises. In our discussion, he modified the potential outcomes of a war based on a change to modern weaponry. This discussion was at least interesting given that Cabo was intent on discussing video games.
Bobby worked on building a table to calculate investor returns including the sale of original investment in seven years.
Session Minutes
30
Minutes Student Attended
30
Lesson Comments
Bobby was excellent today. He provided good ideas and used skills learned previously to develop his table in Excel. He will copy and import the table to his presentation during the next class.
