{"id":1007,"date":"2016-10-23T19:34:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T23:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silkroad.guilford.edu\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2016-10-23T19:34:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T23:34:14","slug":"still-moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/silkworms\/still-moving-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Moving Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Snow-capped
Tian Shan Mountains, Malcom Manners, 2007<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\nThe Sky Team met this past week and we set down definite dates that the group will need to have certain things finished by in order to get the project done on time. Among other things, we set dates for having drafts completed, for setting outlines for the Story Maps, and for inputting information into the website and Story Map. However, I worry that the team is really behind overall. The research is not completely done yet, and we are still unsure how to construct a narrative. I believe that the team should have been more proactive about the project, and the team should have been meeting more often and talking much more often than what has been going on up until this point. We have until November 15 to get everything done by, which is rapidly approaching. My hope is that having set deadlines for each part of the project will get the group to turn it into high gear. At this point, the project will take dedicated time pretty much every day in order to have a finished project that is ready to be seen by the public eye. In order to be proactive and make sure we make the official deadline, we set a deadline for the whole project our on November 11. This will hopefully make sure we really have everything done and give us some elbowroom if something goes wrong and we need those extra three days to fix up the project.
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\nOther Worries:
\nThe biggest roadblock right now seems to be the language barrier. It is hard researching the fashion and beauty ideals of a culture that uses a language (or languages) that you do not understand. The team is using all of the resources that we have available, such as Google translations (which can be problematic) and one of our professors who is Chinese and can help us translate some of our artifacts.
\nLastly, something that sort of bothers me as the deadline for the project approaches is that the team has not reached out to me for help. I know that they are having some difficulties, but if they do not come and talk to me, there is only so much that I can do in regards to leading them and nudging them along to get stuff done. I am doing the best I can when we meet as a team, but ultimately I cannot force them to do their research, or meet up more, or communicate more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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