So far, I have been able to start the StoryMap site and have begun to gather and organize resources like images in order to start adding more information to the site. I have been able to meet with my project leads somewhat frequently and often had updates to give them about my progress. Over the rest of the semester, I would like to make a lot more progress with making each individual section of the map – like the tour and the timeline. I would also like to finish organizing the resources, mainly images, provided to me by my project leads by season and content so that I can easily add them to the StoryMap.
When the project first started, a big issue was how the WordPress site and StoryMap would be linked together. I managed to figure out that a published StoryMap can be emedded into a WordPress site and I’m now planning on embedding each Story Map I create into the CERA WordPress Site, and plan on documenting how I did it in order to help future fellows, or site maintainers, keep both the WordPress site and the StoryMaps up to date.
Content wise, Jake, Emily and I agreed to split each task timeline into the seasons that it occurs in – like prescribed fires and planting. This should make it easier to navigate the information provided and make absorbing or just looking at content less overwhelming. I wonder if I can get a map of CERA with all of its key location in order to make the map tour of the facility from Jake and Emily, and if I can split the content into separate pages – with outlines for what happens in each season.
I look forward to making more progress in the next half of the semester and in the year to come.
⋆˙⟡ Steph