At this stage of the project we are further along with our planning than I expected to be. We have a lively ongoing conversation over email and Slack, and are following our tasks on Trello. Because Elena had already set up these spaces, we are fully immersed in the stage of learning how each team member approaches their tasks, defining our roles, and have already started to make decisions on our next steps.

The most important realization this week was how the project itself will further define our roles. I have also had a reminder of how much I love writing and realized that we will all probably have the opportunity to take on those roles more than I thought. This week we all took a part in writing and editing our project proposal (I wrote the Environmental Scan) and I think it was a very useful exercise in ironing out the kinks of our communication flow.

I am very happy to be a part of this team and deeply impressed with how engaged everyone is. I am concerned about the development side of things, because I began this project as a complete OMEKA novice. Although we are using OMEKA for our project, we are all beginners so this is probably something we share. But the resources are great (workshops, fellows, etc) so I think we’ll make it. I plan to use Omeka at least for part of my capstone, so this is a great opportunity to learn.