Today we were lucky enough to spend a large amount of time with Dr. Puffenberger, the donor of the collection. We recorded him talking about 13 of the artifacts. Each artifact he revealed something new and added insight that we …
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Today Dr. Puffenberger came in so we could interview him for out website. In addition to the multiple artifacts we had picked out for him, Dr, Puffenberger picked out some of his favorites to talk about such as the Shiva …
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This week, Amal and I are focused on interviewing several professors and recording their commentary on some of the artifacts to upload on our Omeka site. Today, we were able to interview Dr. Jeff Long. Dr. Long is a professor …
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Today we finally started the interviews for our “for educators” and “for students” pages and getting videos of descriptions and background of the artifacts. Dr. Jeff Long came into today to talk about 12 of the artifacts. Dr. Long focused …
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What a productive week! With over 33 artifacts cataloged, Amal and I proofread and added to every single artifact this week. I believe Amal and I both proofread each artifact’s description over two times each. This thorough process ensured that the …
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Today the trailer is finally completed. I need to add one picture of Dr. Long or another professor utilizing the artifacts in some type of classroom setting and then I will be able to post it onto the website. This …
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Our day started out with a review of the outline of our SCARP paper that is due at the end of the summer. Dr. Newton wanted to make sure that we knew exactly what should be in our paper. We …
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Today started with a review of what is expected of us on our final paper. We want our paper to be as clean as possible since many people could read the paper if they wanted to see our progress throughout …
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Today, I focused primarily on the trailer since I had a lot of changes to make. Dr. Newton suggested that I made the trailer more about the collection rather than our SCARP project. So I did some editing and I …
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At the beginning of today, Dr. Newton, Amal, and I met for our daily group discussion. Today our discussion focused mostly on the ten-page SCARP paper we have complete by the end of summer. Dr. Newton had created an outline, …
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