This past weekend our group collaborated together and began work on creating our content inventory.  This exercise was an effort to begin preparing us for our card sorting exercise, which also prepares us to successfully create our site map, which will be the next assignment due next week.  This week in class, on Tuesday October, 14, we had a lecture on labeling systems and the different types of labels that are important in Information Architecture (i.e. Contextual Links, Headings, Index Terms, etc).  There was also a discussion on the different cultural styles of labeling; examples included British and Asian websites.  We also went over different tips in creating successful labels.  At the end of class we got into our groups and touched up our Content Inventory lists in final preparation for the card sorting exercise.  Then on Thursday October, 16, we discussed the creation of sitemaps.  Topics included, how they are made, why and who they are made to target. There was also discussion about the difference between sitemaps and wireframes.  Wireframes are just a mock-up of what elements are going to be included in each page, a sitemap is an overview of how the site will be structured.  We also began the card sorting exercise, which involved looking at another teams inventory cards and classifying them into different categories.