In yesterday’s class we reviewed feedback on our prototype from our 3 student advisors who have been working with us. This was so helpful and we have some tweaks to make over the next couple weeks. We’ve already had to change the name of our project and we’re still looking to adjust elements of our design (font, colors), so things are still very much a work in progress.

So far I think we all feel that we’re in a great place and have hit our milestones. It was a huge challenge to get past the initial legal and consent questions for our student submissions, so we’re happily now focused on new challenges that come with putting together the prototype. We’re definitely all eager to continue to receive student submissions, but we want to recognize what that work will look like for our team to intake and edit them all for posting to the site.

We all decided to take a break from our weekend group meetings over Spring Break, so the next time we’ll all meet together will be in class on April 8th. Here are the group’s action items to keep aligned and ready to continue the work when we get back. I typically send these out to the group over email after we meet, so it’s odd to post here for everyone to see!

All

• Have your top color palette choice ready to share on April 6th.
• If you want to draft a logo, have that ready to share on April 6th.
• Work on draft of newsletter/brochure content. Goal: have a template with info to share with schools or other networks. This way we’re not rewriting an email each time we’re reaching out to groups for submissions.
• Explore the site and watch how it behaves differently on desktop vs mobile vs tablet. Keep track of anything you notice that needs adjusting.
• Think about how to manage the editing and development overload that Maggi and Phil will face when we receive influx of submissions in April. How can we support them?
• What do we think about group submissions? Collect individual consent form from each of them in the group? One person submits on behalf of everyone? We’ll want to document what this process looks like.

Amanda

• Set up Google doc draft of newsletter/brochure content.
• Set up Google doc to dump our team color palette and logo options into by April 6th.
• Continue work on the map. Explore what kind of interactive features are possible. Check that submissions are coming in OK through connection. Add a title.
• Work on intake workflow documentation.
• Create Trello card with our final/gold source resources listed to reference.

Karyn

• Get new photo from Elise for her submission.
• Submission form edits:
  • “If you’re over 18 and want to share your store, consider participating in coronastories.world…”
  • Edit question: “How does it convey your response…”
  • Ask them to submit title of their work.
  • “If you were to display this at a museum, what would you want to accompany your work on a display card?…” Encourage description with submission.
  • Link pdf with terms and conditions at beginning of the form.
• Consider tracking version control of questions we’re asking students in case they change over time. Have detailed record of which students are answering which prompts.
• Open Q: Does the GC have someone we can run the creative license by?
• Reach out to your contact in MA to have their students start creating!
• Ask our student advisors to help us think about our logo/design/colors. What are the young people trends these days? 🙂

Maggi

• Change the display image on Isabelle’s video to be a screenshot or beginning of her video, rather than the same still photo she submitted. Reduce duplication when clicking into entry.
• Take out “swipe up” from mast head. On phone this is true, but on desktop it’s “scroll down”. What the best language/animation to use?
• Can we make the mast head more “edgy”? Per Vallerie: older students aren’t as interest because it seems too juvenile.

Phil

• Upload new Elise photo for her submission.
• Reach out to coronastories.world to share and discuss. (Based on what we talked about on Thursday.)
• Provide linked pdf to terms and conditions on the “Add your story” page.
• Also on “Add your story” page, mention up front that parent/guardian permission will be required.
• Add age and location (state/country) to each submission’s cover photo.
• Start work on an instruction resource for Vallerie and Karyn to learn how to use Adobe Portfolio. Hoping to help with bandwidth.
• Share Adobe cost with Karyn so we can come up with reimbursement plan via Bret and Matt.

Vallerie

• Think more about the incentive for submissions.
• Stay in contact with your networks.
  • 6 students with April 5th deadline
  • Larger after school program with end of April deadline. Ideally we’re not receiving them all at the same time, but we can figure this out.
• Work with Phil to learn how to support the activities in Adobe Portfolio.