Week 11: What tools and methods will best help us complete our class project?

This post will be short and sweet, but I want to make sure that everyone knows what they’re doing before I leave for my trip. I’ll be gone Wednesday through Sunday, but I’ll be checking email every day if you need to reach me. Here’s what should happen while I’m away:

• On Wednesday (April 2), you should use our class session to share your newly approved individual project plans with each other. Each of you should take five minutes to briefly describe your project and get advice from your classmates about tools and strategies that might help you with your work. You might not use the entire class period, but I hope your conversation will help you identify other people in class who are pursuing similar topics or using similar methods.
• You should begin making progress on your individual project. This might mean downloading software, setting up a website, collecting your artifacts, or continuing your search for good models of what you want to do. Based on the conversations I had with each of you during our individual conferences, I’m confident that everyone has something to do this week.
• Before the end of the week, you and your partner on the class project should scan and OCR your assigned issue of The Gray Jacket. (See the Week 10 post for more details.)

Next week, both of our class sessions will focus on learning Omeka and adding our content for the class project to our new site. Before you come to class on Monday, please read through the Omeka documentation (especially the pages in the “Getting Started with Project Planning” section) and spend some time playing in the Omeka Sandbox.

By the end of Week 11, I hope we’ll have our site up and running. Chances are pretty good we’ll also have a long list of questions that need to be answered and problems that need to be solved. I can’t wait to get started!