Last night, I met with my group in the library to set up a basic plan of attack for the next few weeks. We talked about how setting up specific data finding\/creation deadlines to make our group progress schedule a bit more specific. As per Eric\u2019s advice, I recommended adding deadlines for having all of the images, all videos, all text completed, etc. as we anticipated that data entry will take longer to finish than groups might think at this point.
\nIn our administrator meeting yesterday morning, we discussed that each team will only be allowed to use one single StoryMap to present the work of their entire team, rather than creating multiple maps for different sections of the project. I think this will be particularly daunting for my team since we don\u2019t necessarily have one singular storyline, but one meal that traces out in multiple lines in different directions since they are tracing different ingredients and elements of the meal backwards through time. We made a lot of progress in imagining how our StoryMap will actually end up by drawing out different formations while brainstorming. The best idea that we came up with was to create a center point with the image of the entire meal and take each element, in order of their consumption throughout a typical meal period (starting with drink, first course, second course, etc) and then zooming out to the beginning of the history of that element and tracing it back to the table and overall meal. By tracing inward rather than outward, each element will end at the center and refocus on the larger picture of the entire meal. We will then proceed to trace the next element from the outer-most point inwards and so on. This will make the phases of the project seem almost like flashbacks that lead the reader to the final meal.
\nWe talked about how we will maintain a narrative within this format. We had originally envisioned telling the story from the first person perspective, allowing one person to witness where the ingredient came from and they got it to the table. We also brainstormed telling the narrative in the first person as the ingredient itself. We came upon a final solution of telling the story in the second person perspective, allowing the audience to be the center of the narrative and having them be the person bring the ingredients to the table. This will create a narrative that seems almost like a \u201cchoose your own adventure\u201d novel, but structured to be a directed story rather than a number of audience choices.
\nI was worried that the limited format of StoryMap would limit our narrative abilities, but I think that we have come to a very good agreement and new arrangement for our information. At this point, my team is feeling anxious to learn about the StoryMap tool and is eagerly counting down to our next Tech Lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last night, I met with my group in the library to set up a basic plan of attack for the next few weeks. We talked about how setting up specific data finding\/creation deadlines to make our group progress schedule a bit more specific. As per Eric\u2019s advice, I recommended adding deadlines for having all of … Continue reading Monday Meeting Debrief: How to Create a Linear Narrative with Many Different Elements<\/span>