Week 9: Helen De Michiel video + Fruitful Frictions

After ten weeks of multimedia and multiplatform storytelling, now it is your turn to tell us the transmedia or participatory story of your term project.

This is a supportive way to appreciate and celebrate our quarter together by having each of the six groups do an informal presentation (10 – 15 minutes) on their Term Project with total time of approximately 30 minutes for Q/A and dialogue. Here are some prompts to structure your presentation and share with us your processes and successes.

1.  Tell us the story (again, but in retrospect) of its evolution over the 10 weeks.  What did the site creators and curators learn from making this project?  What did the public engagement strategists learn from the  five week outreach and/or promotion process (other than you wished you had more time)?

2.  What are some of the surprises that came out of the project?

3.  What are three lessons that you learned that you will build upon or improve upon in your next project?

4.  What is the future for the project site?  Plans for its continuation?  Thoughts on your “impact” goals?

If you have any data or numbers to show us, that would be great.  Also, if you can, I’ve encouraged team members to shoot cell phone videos if you are doing public events where attendees might give you a positive quote, which can be posted on the site.  (This is something that we always seem to forget to do, but always turn out to be useful after the fact.)

I hope you enjoy my last video of the quarter.  I just completed reading your Week 9 posts and made a few notes on each of them.  Folks, you are writing fantastic mini-essays that have really gone beyond simple summaries of the readings!