This week, Emily couldn’t meet with Maya and me on Monday, so she postponed it to Wednesday. I couldn’t be there Wednesday, so Maya and I met on Monday to discuss what would happen at Wednesday’s meeting. Since there was only 2 weeks left of the practicum, Maya and I really wanted to post to the map. So, Maya went to Wednesday’s meeting with the intention of getting those postcards edited. Emily emailed me her revisions and I was able to post my two stories to the map on Saturday! Maya and I also discussed the inventories for the archive boxes. I went through box 47 and checked if each artist lives in a rural area and/or was a TAAP awardee. I added this information to the inventory and sent that to Maya for her to use for box 60. Finally, we decided that we would meet after next Mondays’s meeting to discuss creating the official practicum guidelines.
After 8 weeks, I have finally posted to the map! It was a very simple process. Place Stories is really easy to use and understand. I posted one postcard and one video through YouTube. After posting, I realized that videos don’t flip like postcards do: you have to click on the link to get more information. I had a little bit of trouble with the formatting of the text, so I adjusted it in html. I chose the Rural Arts & Culture community and used their tags. I also added tags like “Oregon Folklife Network” and “Rural Oregon”. I think there should be some consistent tags between all OFN posts. Maya and I will be addressing issues like this in our guidelines. I think it would be interesting to utilize some of the other options for posting to the map. For instance, you can post audio. This would a perfect way to share about a rural storyteller. There are so many possibilities!