{"id":1112,"date":"2016-11-11T17:43:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T21:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silkroad.guilford.edu\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2016-11-11T17:43:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T21:43:09","slug":"almost-to-the-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/silkworms\/almost-to-the-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost to the Deadline!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wp8JNpcWJNc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Uyghur dancing, Urumqi, Xinjiang<\/em>, Ludo Kuipers, 2014<br \/>\nSo the Sky Team had our next to last meeting before the Story Map and accompanying introduction, conclusion, and bibliography pages are put onto the website and finished for Tuesday November 15. I had a bit of a panic moment because before this meeting, the Story Map was empty and the introduction and conclusion were barely started. However, the team worked hard to put up information the night before our weekly meeting. I think that they had mostly everything ready, and they just needed to input information into the Story Map. However, there is still a good bit of writing, editing, and perfecting that needs to happen before this coming Tuesday, including citations. The team plans to meet Monday morning to do any last edits and make sure everything is ready to be seen by the public.<br \/>\nAfter the teams post their information to the website, the TAs will then begin our part of the project of creating a front page interactive map that has all of the points from each of our teams, which will be linked to each team page, respectively. The TAs will also be involved in writing introduction information about the course and class content and goals overall, as well as making sure the overall look and feel of the website is intuitive and appealing. I think that the TAs\u2019 job will be a good amount of work crammed into a week and a half, but not impossible. All of the TAs are planning to have a get-together where we will input information and have each other there if we have any questions about the technologies we will be using.<br \/>\nThe website goes live right after we get back from Thanksgiving break, so it is ideal to have everything done before break, that way we do not have to worry about it. I am very apprehensive about putting all of the class\u2019s work on a public platform where people will be able to read, see, and judge our writing, knowledge base, and technological skills. However, I think that the entire class has done a fantastic job at learning <em>so many<\/em> new technological skills in such a short time, while simultaneously balancing the readings, quizzes, research, and blog posts for this class (let alone balancing everything outside of this class). I am really very proud of everyone in the class, but I am especially proud of my team in particular. We had a few rough spots where we were frustrated that there was not enough communication, or that we were not moving fast enough with the project. I think in large the rough spots were due to different work habits, which could have been due to the difference in ages within the team. Our team was the only one with an age disparity like ours, with two high school aged students and one adult student in the same group. It made for interesting interactions and team dynamics. There definitely had to be a lot of negotiation and patience from everyone\u2019s side. However, at least up until this point, with the deadline for the project within a few days, I think that the team is feeling more cohesive than ever and I know we can push through and make a great product for the website.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uyghur dancing, Urumqi, Xinjiang, Ludo Kuipers, 2014 So the Sky Team had our next to last meeting before the Story Map and accompanying introduction, conclusion, and bibliography pages are put onto the website and finished for Tuesday November 15. I had a bit of a panic moment because before this meeting, the Story Map was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/silkworms\/almost-to-the-deadline\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Almost to the Deadline!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silkworms","category-team-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}