This week Maya was out of town, so just Emily and I met. Emily did a more detailed edit of our first postcards and sent them to Riki for a final check. We spent most of the meeting editing, but we did discuss the plans for the last few weeks of the practicum. Since we haven’t posted our postcards yet, we think we may only finish 2 postcards this term. The priority is make sure the practicum is set up for the next person. We discussed creating official guidelines to be completed by week 10. However, we can’t finish the guidelines till we have experienced posting on Place Stories. We also discussed creating a list of potential artists (both TAAP and non TAAP) for future practicum students. Lastly, we decided that we should adjust the inventories for the artists boxes to include information for this project. These documents will allow the next to practicum to run more efficiently and hopefully generate more postcards rather than research.
I emailed Nathan and got his permission to adjust the inventories. I plan to go to Special Collections next week and look through Box 47 to check my notes before adjusting the inventory. I will also use that time to finalize my list of possible artists. I finished my draft of my 2nd postcard and sent it to Emily and Riki. I was going to post my 1st postcard this week, but Riki didn’t edit it in time. Hopefully that will happen next week. I plan to meet with Maya next week to discuss the inventories, guidelines and artist lists. This process has been somewhat slow moving especially for writing and editing. I think Maya and I should discuss a timeline for the guidelines that would work best for generating postcards including time needed for research, writing, editing and posting.